Classes, Courses and Other Events

Listings

Calendar of Historical Dance

Gives listings of early dance classes and events.

The Early Dance Circle

UK based organisation that publishes a regular (paper) diary of events, mainly in the UK, but some events outside the UK are also included.

Regular classes

Since most regular classes are associated with a dance group of some sort, the first place to look is my Organisations page – I have not duplicated that information here.  Below are the few remaining links that just mention classes but don't give enough information to be listed elsewhere.  You should also try the external listings pages above.

Centre de Dance du Marais

Dance centre in Paris, where Edith Lalonger gives baroque dance classes.  (Français/English)

Académie de Ballet – Nini Theilade

Ballet school in Lyon, France, that periodically offers baroque dance workshops.  (Français)

Danse Cadence

Montreal, Canada.  Baroque dance with Anne-Marie Gardette.  (Français)

Die Kreative Ballettschule

Celle, Germany.  Ballet school that also mentions renaissance and baroque dance.  (Deutsch)

Workshops and summer schools

Consort de Danse Baroque

Offers an annual summer school in Cardiff, UK and annual spring workshops in the USA.

Apollo's Banquet

Includes information about the annual East Coast Baroque Dance Workshop at Rutgers University.

Longy Summer Workshop

Ken Pierce's late-renaissance and baroque dance summer school in Cambridge, MA.

Chalemie

"Early music, dance & commedia" summer school in the UK with Barbara Segal.

ZeitenTanz

Association promoting historical dance in Austria.  Summer school with Margit Legler, Pia Brocza and Alexander Fischer.  (Deutsch/English)

Historical Dance Summer Workshop at Goucher College

Baltimore, Maryland.  A project of the New York Baroque Dance Company.

Amherst Early Music

Run a summer workshop which includes baroque and renaissance dance with Kaspar D. Mainz and Dorothy Olsson.  More information on the New York Historical Dance Company's site.

San-Francisco Early Music Society

Run an annual baroque music and dance workshop.  Dance was formerly taught by Angene Feves, but it now seems to have passed to Tangkao Tan.

Æstas Musica

Baroque music and dance summer school in Croatia, with dancer Mary Collins.

Fondazione Italiana per la Musica Antica

Their annual early music course in Urbino includes baroque and renaissance dance taught by Barbara Sparti, Lieven Baert and Gloria Giordano.  (Italiano, some English)

Il Teatro della Memoria

Italian organisation.  Their website content is mostly renaissance and some 19th-century dance, but Letizia Dradi will be teaching baroque dance at their L'Humor Bizzarro summer workshop, and they occasionally get other people in to teach workshops.  (Italiano, some English)

Early Music Vancouver Baroque Dance Workshop

With Ana Yepes, who will also be teaching an introductory historical dance afternoon, and beginners' dance classes at their instrumental summer workshop.

Contretem(p)s – Berlin

Offer a summer school taught by Barbara Zech-Günther and Ingo Günther.  (Deutsch)

Académie de Sablé

Early music and dance summer workshop, part of the Festival de Sablé.  Dance taught by Françoise Denieau, Cecilia Grácio Moura, and Bruna Gondoni.  (Français, leaflet also in English)

Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society Summer School

In the UK.  Covers different periods each year, with different teachers.  In 2008 one of the options with be baroque dance with Cecilia Grácio Moura.

Music workshops with dance

These workshops are aimed at musicians and include dance classes, typically at an introductory level.  If you have a stronger interest in dance then I suggest that you also look at the dance workshops listed above, some of which also have a music component.

Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin

Summer school for musicians, with baroque dance taught by Julie Andrijeski and Paige Whitley-Bauguess.

Tafelmusic Baroque Summer Institute

Mentions basic baroque dance lessons with Jeannette Zingg.  In Toronto.

Early Music Vancouver Baroque Instrumental Programme

Mentions introductory baroque dance workshops with Ana Yepes.  One of several events involving dance organised by Early Music Vancouver this summer.

Philharmonia Budapest Early Music Days

In Hungary.  Includes renaissance and baroque dance with Rita Széll.

Savaria Early Music Summer Workshop

In Hungary.  Includes historical dance with Gábor Kovács.  (Magyar/English/Deutsch)

Performances

NewOlde.com: Opera Performances

Listings of historically-inspired stagings of early opera.  Some include baroque, or "baroque inspired", choreography.

"Chaconne"

A concert with with Ana Yepes in Vancouver, 3rd August 2007.  One of several events involving dance organised by Early Music Vancouver this summer.

Boston Early Music Festival

Biennial event including a fully-staged baroque opera which for several years has been choreographed in period style by Lucy Graham.  In 2007 the opera is Lully/Corneille's Psyché, Boston MA 12-17 June, Great Barrington MA 22-24 June.  Between Festivals the site gives details of other concerts.

Æstas Musica's concert in London

It looks like this concert will include dance from Mary Collins.  [Typical – a concert in London when I'm out of the country...]

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

DVD recording (and upcoming performances) of a production with many "authentic" elements.  Semi-baroque choreography by Cécile Roussat.  (Français)

Le Carnaval Mascarade

October 3rd, 4th 2003 at Eastman School of Music and Cornell University respectively.  There's also a news item about the production on the Cornell Chronicle site.

Opera Atelier

Toronto-based company who perform "opera, ballet, and drama from the 17th and 18th centuries".

Bloomington Early Music Festival

The 2001 festival included a performance by Paige Whitley-Bauguess and Thomas Baird – there are photos and videos available at the site.

Opera at Laurier

Performances of Cavalli's Egisto and Gluck's Cythère Assiégée at the Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, 1st to 3rd of March 2002.  Dance component staged by Edgar Tumak.

The Follies of Versailles

Programme note for a concert featuring Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière and Edgar Tumak (April 2004, you've missed it).

Conferences

Annual Oxford Dance Symposium

Organised by Michael Burden and Jennifer Thorp, and looking principally at 17th and 18th century dance.  Usually held around the beginning of May at New College, Oxford.

The following have been and gone, but the sites may provide information about the papers.

La Sallé

Seminar and concert celebrating Marie Sallé.  Stockholm, Sweden, 12th/13th May 2007.

The Minuet in Time and Space

The 2007 Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society "On Common Ground" conference, March 10th/11th 2007, UK.  Proceedings available for purchase.

Sound Moves

A conference on music and dance held in 2005 near London.  The proceedings are available to download and include a couple of baroque-related items: Moira Goff, Trumpets and Flutes: Music and Dance in John Weaver's "The Loves of Mars and Venus", and Kimiko Okamoto, From Autonomy to Conformity: The Metrical Relationship between Music and Dance in Early Eighteenth-Century France.  A third paper, Joellen A. Meglin et al., Music of the Body: Modern Minuets and Passepieds far from Passé, is mostly concerned with 20th century dance, but does touch on the baroque.

Sunrise of the Baroque: First Rothenfels Dance Symposium

Rothenfels, June 2004.

Unmasquing 17th-Century English Performance

27th/28th April 2001, Muhlenberg College.

Structures and Metaphors in Baroque Dance

31st March 2001, University of Surrey Roehampton, near London.

Other

The Early Music Show: Baroque Dance

The regular BBC Radio 3 programme dedicated an episode to dance.  It was broadcast twice: Jan 5th, lunchtime and Jan 12th/13th, midnight.  [Radio ... dance??]