Workshop to Performance
A vivid Baroque dance documentary produced by Dancetime Publications in association with Catherine Turocy, the renowned Artistic Director of The New York Baroque Dance Company. The DVD provides a rare look at the artistic process in re-creating dance and dance-theater, from studio to stage.Included, there is information about Baroque music, fencing, mask work, notation, costumes, and the inner life of dance performers working in this dance style.
BAROQUE DANCE UNMASKED: Workshop to Performance features brilliant performance excerpts which reveal the most important theatrical dance styles of the 18th century: the danse heroique, the demi-caractère, and the comic/grotesque style. The dancers are in period costumes and perform with an original instrument ensemble, Concert Royal.
DVD run-time: 48 minutes
Catherine Turocy’s Baroque workshop immerses her students in the culture of the 18th Century as they learn dance techniques. The students feel the influence of life style, wardrobe and courtly manner as well as fencing, masks and castanets on the development of dance movements accompanied by wonderful music. Mary Lyons
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PROGRAM DETAILS:
WORKSHOP MENU
Recovering Baroque Dance
Baroque Dance “Bubble”
Mask/Costume
Character and Style
Fencing
Music
Metaphor in Dance
Feuillet Dance Notation
Performer’s Perception
PERFORMANCE MENU
Excerpts from the dance-drama: “With Sword Drawn He Dances”
Dance Heroique Style
Passacaille d’Armide
Demi-Charactère Style
Air Des Sauvages
Comic-Grotesque Style
Peasant-in-a-Basket
Catherine Turocy,
Artistic Director
The New York Baroque Dance Company
Catherine Turocy is internationally recognized for her contribution to the current revival of 18th-Century ballet. She was decorated by the French government in the Order of Arts and Letters and received the prestigious New York City BESSIE AWARD for Sustained Achievement in Choreography. She has been commissioned to choreograph over forty opera productions with the New York Baroque Dance Company in France, England, Germany and the United States. As a stage director, she has mounted works in New York City, Spoleto Festival USA and in Goettingen, Germany. Ms. Turocy’s ballets have been filmed for French, Japanese and American television and featured at many international venues.
The New York Baroque Dance Company - Teachers/Coaches/Dancers:
Catherine Turocy, Deda Cristina Colonna, Carlos Fittante, Derek Clifford
Concert Royal – Musicians:
James Richman, Director; Judson Griffin, violin; Wendy Rolfe, flute; Alyssa Pava, cello
Master Teachers:
Music- conductor- harpsichordist James Richman;
Historical fencing:-Ramon Martinez and Michael Hewer;
Mask work -Arne Zaslove;
Feuillet Notation- Deda Cristina Colonna,
Workshop – Participants:
Laura Barton, Caroline Copeland, Gwen Dobie, Elizabeth Du Val, Sarah Edgar, Amy Green, Rance Green, Michael Hewer, Cindy Joiner, John Jordan, Dana Kotler, Betina Marcolin, Margaret Ann McNab, Philip Meiring, Peggy Murray Marc Ozanic, Lynn Wykoff
Reviews
Above all, Catherine Turocy’s choreography, with its slow, minutely stylized gesture and dance movement realized through the NYBDC, releases and ensures the apprehension of every changing emotion in the score. Hilary Finch, The London Times
Nobody today seems more qualified to reconstruct the French dances of the 18th century than this American and her New York Baroque Dance Company. Le Figaro
The New York Baroque Dance Company offers a more lavish
and theatrical view of eighteenth-century dances than we generally see.
Not only are the costumes rather splendid, but the range and intensity of expression are notable too. John Percival, The Times (London)
