The New York Baroque Dance Co.

Copeland, photo by Russ Rowland

Caroline Copeland (Associate Director) joined the New York Baroque Dance Company in 1996 and has since performed with the troupe throughout the United States and Europe, most notably at the Drottningholm Theater, the International Händelfestspiele Göttingen, Danspace at St. Mark’s Theater, the Guggenheim Museum, and at Potsdam Sanssouci. Caroline is also a featured artist with The Boston Early Music Festival where she is both a performer and choreographer. Her dancer/choreographer credits with BEMF include Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe, Handel’s Almira, and Campra’s Le Carnaval de Venise. As a solo performer, Caroline collaborates with many early music groups around the US and Europe. Appearances include performances with Cantata Profana, Juilliard415, Quicksilver, The Four Nations Ensemble, The New York Collegium, Brooklyn Baroque, The New Dutch Academy, Bourbon Baroque, and the New York Consort of Viols. And Caroline’s choreographies have been presented at the historic Federal Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Public Theater, and the Philipszaal in the Hague.

Caroline also directs opera and writes, directs, and choreographs dance/plays. Her direction credits include: Handel’s Alcina(Bourbon Baroque), Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale (Hofstra University), Attowell’s Frauncis New Jigge (Yale University). Assistant Direction credits are: Il Ritorno d’Ulysse in patria (BEMF) Handel’s Atalanta (NYBDC/International Händelfestspiele Göttingen), Rousseau’s Le Devin du Village (NYBDC/Mercury Baroque) And her new creations include: C’est petits riens (NYBDC/Hillwood Museum and Gardens) and Anticipating Lafayette (NYBDC/The French Embassy and Hillwood Museum and Garden, Washington D.C.).

Caroline teaches master classes in baroque dance and gesture at colleges and universities across the United States. Presentations include appearances at NYU Gallatin, Rutgers, Cornell, Yale, Ensemble ACJW, Juilliard, Parson’s School of Design, BEMF, University of Delaware, Carnegie Hall and Vassar College. Caroline earned a MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College and is an Adjunct Professor at Hofstra University where she enjoys teaching classical ballet, contemporary dance, historical dance practice, and dance history.