Golf club or shepherdess crook? Period of Charles I or Charles II of England? Come to my pre-concert lecture with the Four Nations Ensemble and discover the answer! Facebook Event for Lecture
You won’t want to miss the summer workshops in beautiful Santa Barbara this year. Follow this link for information and to register.
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Dance of the Month this Saturday, February 7th, 3-5pm
L’Aimable Vainqueur
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14th Century, Book of Hours, Flanders,
thank you Valerie Eads!
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Anticipating Valentine’s Day, Ani Udovicki will be teaching phrases of this popular loure at our Dance of the Month class this coming Saturday.
Catherine Turocy will speak briefly on the dance’s inclusion in one of the first published French cookbooks from 1738 and Jude Ziliak will accompany the dance lesson on Baroque violin.
Bring your Valentine to class and make this a Valentine Week!
Cost: $16
Location: Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
iTunes: The New York Baroque Dance Company Now Available on Digital Download
Baroque Dance Unmasked
The dancers and I are excited to join 21st century technology. Let us delight you with this “behind the scenes” look at bringing a production to life. The work involved is common to all time periods and branches of the performing arts. We are happy to make this documentary available at a discounted price to individuals for only $7.99.
Rare Opportunity to study with Catherine Turocy
in Europe, Centro Coreográfico Galego
La Coruña, Spain
April 9-11, 2015
Dates: April 9-10 -11 from 10am to 3pm
Tuition: This workshop, assisted by the town government, is only 45 euros.
Catherine Turocy, Artistic Director of The New York Baroque Dance Company and Chevalier dans L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, continues to develop ideas of interpretation and performance practice in 17th and 18th century dance. Bringing her vision to the present, most recently she has worked with L.A. Dance Project, the experimental company of Benjamin Millepied, Director of Dance at the Paris Opera Ballet, in exploring the origins of theatrical dance and application of period concepts to contemporary creations.
Eager to share her experience and ideas, classes will cover the knowledge of themask in period performance, the use of cosmography theory in the dancing body of 17th century France, the expressive gesture and attitudes basic to early dance performance style and interpreting period dance notation.
Her own dancing, period reconstructions and choreographies are recognized by both colleagues and the press as being true to the aesthetic of the period without looking stiff or mechanical. She has achieved this through her unique teaching style developed over the past 40 years on professional dancers in her own company and in the field at large.
“My goal,” says Turocy, “is to inspire dancers on their own path in working with history. The ideal relationship with dance and with historical dance is one where the inner gifts of the individual are released into the form.”
If you live in Europe, or you were thinking of visiting Europe, do not miss this opportunity to study with a Master Teacher in 17th and 18th century dance performance.
emailto:formacion.ccg@xunta.es
Baroque Dance Makes the Cover of French Dance Magazine
Even if you do not read French, browse through the photos of this exciting edition where Baroque is featured along with Lucinda Childs, Beyonce and Lady Gaga. Sarah Edgar, Associate Director of The New York Baroque Dance Company, and Bruno Benne, guest artist at our 2013 and 2014 Santa Barbara workshops are interviewed. It is interesting to read the French perspective through Bruno’s comments on the value of Turocy’s approach to Baroque dance performance.
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The Tumultuous Tambourin Taught by Meggi Sweeney Smith 
A lively duple-meter dance of Provençal origin, the tambourin, was often found on the French stage during the eighteenth century. Looking specifically at Rameau’s vibrant examples, we will explore the elements and character of the tambourin as a delightful group dance. Please join us for this first Dance of the Month in 2015, all levels are invited.
Location: Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Time: 3-5pm on Saturday, January 3rd
Cost:$16
Cost:$16
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Thomas Hampson, baritone
Film Documentary to be aired in Germany
Link to European Broadcast Information
Just received this word from director, Jason Starr. This is the film Catherine Turocy worked on as Production Designer and movement director:
“Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde will have its broadcast premiere next weekend on 3sat. It will be aired at 8:15 on Saturday evening, the 22nd of November. The name of the film is Überall und ewig – Mahlers Das Lied von der Erde. In addition to the usual documentary techniques (interviews, archival material, performance clips) I created short dramatizations for each song aimed to stimulate interest in this unlikely yet mesmerizing combination of a fin de siècle Viennese symphonic style with 8th century Chinese poetry—the two creative worlds at the heart of this symphony. What’s also satisfying is that 3sat will immediately follow the one-hour documentary with a re-broadcast of the complete concert film I directed of Das Lied von der Erde. This was the 2012 inaugural performance for Neeme Järvi as music director of Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. It features baritone Thomas Hampson and tenor Paul Groves. “
Dance of the Month Coming on Saturday, December 6th and January 3rd with Meggi Sweeney Smith
December 6: The Simple to Complex Bourree 3-5pm
Come join us for an introduction to the basic Baroque dance steps of the bouree as we learn the opening figure of La Savoye (1709). The second portion of class will play with these steps, their development, and beautiful spatial patterns, as they appear in Rameau’s notation of the magnificent couple dance La Royalle.
January 3: The Tumultuous Tambourin 3-5pm
A lively duple-meter dance of Provençal origin, the tambourin was often found on the French stage during the eighteenth century. Looking specifically at Rameau’s vibrant examples, we will explore the elements and character of the tambourin as a delightful group dance.
Where: Mark Morris Dance Center at 3 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, New York (corner of Flatbush Ave). www.markmorrisdancegroup.org/schoollocate.cfm.
Cost: only $16 per class!
Summer Workshop, Hold the Dates: August 20-25, 2015 in Santa Barbara, California
Special Guest, Alan Jones, author of Dictionnaire du desir de la bonne chere, will share his knowledge in food, dance and music from the first French cookbook of 1738. Click below to see what Julia Child has to say about the cookbook
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Dance Classes at Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn
Period clothing is not necessary for the dance classes.
Saturday, September 6th, 3-3:45pm: Open House Free Class with Ani Udovicki
Soloist and teacher with the New York Baroque Dance Company, Ani Udovicki will conduct a sample Baroque Dance class to give students a taste of the Baroque. Cost: Free
Saturday, September 13, 3-5pm: Hogarth’s Line of Beauty in Baroque Dance with Catherine Turocy
According to William Hogarth, the S-shaped curved lines signify liveliness and activity: “the waving line, which is a line more productive of beauty than any of the former, as in flowers, and other forms of the ornamental kind: for which reason we shall call it the line of beauty.” Join Catherine Turocy, decorated by the French Republic as a Chevalier for her work in historical stage practice, as she explores posture, arm gestures and positions of the hands while in the action of dancing a slow air. Cost: $16
Location: Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Performances in October
Monday, October 6th: Premiere of Les Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour, ou Les Dieux d’Égypte, The last of Jean Philippe Rameau’s large-scale opéra-ballets to be revived and performed in recent times, will be performed by an international cast. Each act is directed by one of the production’s three contributing choreographers: Catherine Turocy of the New York Baroque Dance Company, Anuradha Nehru of Kalanidhi Dance, and Seán Curran of the Seán Curran Company. Conductor Ryan Brown will be leading Opera Lafayette Orchestra and Chorus in this staged and costumed production. Twenty-one dancers are participating in this opera as part of the 250th Anniversary Year for Jean Philippe Rameau.
Performance in NYC: Thurs., October 9, 2014 – Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, 7:30 p.m. Premiere in Washington DC: Monday, October 6, 2014 – The Kennedy Center Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 12, with the Dallas Bach Society If you are in Dallas, celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jean Philippe Rameau with a wide-ranging selection of his work, featuring renowned soprano Ann Monoyios. James Richman will conduct the The Dallas Bach Society orchestra and chorus in dances, chamber music, Pièces de clavecin, and two pieces of opera-ballet as performed at the Paris Opera during the Baroque period: La Danse from Les Fêtes d’Hébé, and the Prologue to Les Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour (see description above.)
Location: SMU campus, Caruth Auditorium at 3pm
rehearsal for Court/Garden
Thursday, October 9- Saturday, October 11: Court/Garden at St. Mark’s Danspace Project Directed by Yanira Castro, this spectacle in 3 acts, Court/Garden, is a new dance and live music performance by a canary torsi. It takes as its inspiration the imperial ballets of Louis XIV’s French Court, the spectatorship of the proscenium stage and the presentation of video feeds as cultural, social and political frames of experience. CG delves into an operatic, spectacle-driven vocabulary to reflect on how power functions in contemporary theatrical images from the fashion runway to the creation of cultural icons.
Catherine Turocy conducted an intense workshop for the dancers and choreographer/director Yanira Castro as a kick-off for their exploration into this period. Turocy has also been acting as the historical consultant on this contemporary work and stands in admiration of the collaboration directed by Castro.
To watch a short video about the early part of our process at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, please visit: https://vimeo.com/83345700
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Catherine Turocy
La Danse by Adolphe -William Bouguereau reflects the importance of dance in French culture. His portrait of Mademoiselle Martha Hoskier hangs in the museum at Santa Barbara. She is beautifully dressed in the painting and one wonders what she must have looked like while dancing. Join our faculty and students from the Santa Barbara Historical Dance Weekend Plus as we dance our way through time, linking the eras of the dances and the paintings to give a more physical understanding of the shared aesthetics between popular and high culture.
This free event offered at noon is co-sponsored by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the New York Baroque Dance Company funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. DIRECTIONS
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Catherine Turocy
La Danse by Adolphe -William Bouguereau reflects the importance of dance in French culture. His portrait of Mademoiselle Martha Hoskier hangs in the museum at Santa Barbara. She is beautifully dressed in the painting and one wonders what she must have looked like while dancing. Join our faculty and students from the Santa Barbara Historical Dance Weekend Plus as we dance our way through time, linking the eras of the dances and the paintings to give a more physical understanding of the shared aesthetics between popular and high culture.
This free event offered at noon is co-sponsored by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the New York Baroque Dance Company funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. DIRECTIONS
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Artists: Carolyn Sampson, Chantal Santon, Tassis Christoyannis, Mathias Vidal, Alain Buet, Choir and Orchestra Concert Spiritual, dir. Hervé Nique
Mathias Vidal is our Pygmalion on this album with James Richman conducting!
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Artists: Carolyn Sampson, Chantal Santon, Tassis Christoyannis, Mathias Vidal, Alain Buet, Choir and Orchestra Concert Spiritual, dir. Hervé Nique
Mathias Vidal is our Pygmalion on this album with James Richman conducting!
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