Organisations (Matt's Baroque Dance Links)

Companies & Organisations

UK – USA – Canada – France – Germany – Austria – Switzerland – Belgium/Netherlands/Luxembourg – Sweden – Czech Republic – Spain – Italy – Poland – Hungary – Australia – Japan

UK

The Early Dance Circle: Organisation promoting early dance.
Consort de Danse Baroque: Information about Philippa Waite's classes in England and Wales, the annual summer school, their CD and Beauchamp-Feuillet notation guide.
Chalemie: Early music, dance & commedia. With Barbara Segal.
Contretemps: Barbara Segal and Frank Perenboom.
The Companie of Dansers: Directed by Madeleine Inglehearne.
Coranto Early Dance and Music: Medieval to ninteenth century; directed by Diana Scrivener. Information about workshops, performances and publications.
Bath Minuet Company: Including information about the annual Bath Georgian Ball.
Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society: UK based historical dance society. They organise summer schools, and publish magazines, books and music for early dance.
Covent Garden Minuet Company: London based group interested in the social dances of the 18th century.
Oxford Historical Dance Society: Group that organises one-day workshops in different historical dance styles.

USA

BaroqueDance.com: The activities of Paige Whitley-Bauguess. Includes background information on baroque dance, with a nice introduction to reading notation.
Apollo's Banquet: Dancer Thomas Baird and musician/dancer Hugh Murphy.
SDHS: The Society of Dance History Scholars.
Seattle Early Dance: Baroque dance company directed by Anna Mansbridge. Classes, performances, photo galleries, and some background information.
Language of the Gods: Seattle based dance ensemble. They offer lessons for beginners, but these might be the same lessons as those offered by Seattle Early Dance.
New York Baroque Dance Company: Directed by Catherine Turocy. Gives performances and occasional workshops, and has videos on their website.
New York Historical Dance Company: Directed by Dorothy Olsson and Kaspar D. Mainz.
The Court Dancers [Broken? 8th Dec 2007]: Based in Washington DC, directed by Cheryl Stafford.
Dance Through Time: Historical dance company, mentions "Baroque dances such as the minuet, gigue, sarabande and allemande". Seem to be associated with Dancetime Publications.
Choregraphie Antique: Historical dance group of Goucher College, Baltimore. The site doesn't mention baroque much, but I've seen their name in reference to baroque classes.
Dance History Studio: Directed by Patricia W. Rader.

Canada

Opera Atelier: Toronto-based company who perform "opera, ballet, and drama from the 17th and 18th centuries". See in particular the "Making an Opera" sections on Persée and Pygmalion.
La Belle Danse: Baroque dance company based in Toronto, directed by Daniel Gariépy. Their site includes background information and videos.
Toronto Masque Theatre: Performers of staged events from the masque and early opera tradition. One of their Artistic Associates is Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière who also acts as a choreographer and dancer.
Historical Performance Ensemble: Renaissance and baroque performance group based in Vancouver. It looks like the dancers are Catherine Lee and Brenda Webster.
Les Barricades Misterieuses: Baroque ensemble including musicians and dancers, based in Ottawa. They don't have a web page, however they have kindly provided me with leaflets in Microsoft Word and Corel Draw 7 formats.

France

Stravaganze: Dance company. The site has some background information. (Français)
L'Eventail: Baroque dance company based in Sablé-sur-Sarthe. Directed by Marie-Geneviève Massé. (Français)
Les Fêtes d'Hébé: Classes and workshops with Cecilia Grácio Moura in Paris. (Français)
L'Eclat des Muses: Directed by Christine Bayle, based in Paris. (Français)
Compagnie Fêtes Galantes: Directed by Béatrice Massin. Judging by their site they seem to like to mix modern elements into their baroque dance. (Français/English)
Talon Pointe: "Compagnie de Danse Baroque et Renaissance". They seem to based in the Lyon area. (Français)
Les Festes de Thalie: Baroque musicians, actors and dancers based in Yvelines. (Français)
Association pour un Centre de Recherche sur les Arts du Spectacle aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Organisation aiming to promote collaboration between performers and researchers in the recreation of the performing arts of 17th and 18th century France. (Français)
Compagnie Ana Yepes: Baroque (French and Spanish/South-American) and contempory dancer/choreographer. Based in Paris I believe. (Français)
Le Clou de Louis: Group dancing baroque country and noble dances. It's not clear who is behind the group, but a name mentioned in reference to classes is Sylvie Noaillac. Based in Bordeaux. (Français)

Germany

Contretem(p)s – Berlin: Company run by Ingo Günther. (Deutsch)
Studio für Historischen Tanz: Berlin. (Deutsch)
Ensemble Historischer Tanz der HdK Berlin: Historical dance company who mention baroque. (Deutsch)
Erato Ensemble, Freiburg: "Musik – Tanz – Theater". (Deutsch)
Les Aimables: Hannover-based historical dancers who mention dancing La Mariee, L'Address, Bouree d'Achille... (Deutsch)
Les Plaisirs: Based in Munich. (Deutsch/English)
Hoftanz: Baroque and renaissance dance with Simone Schütte-Ullrich. (Deutsch)
La Riverenza: Group based in Dortmund, Germany. (Deutsch)
Historischer Tanzkreis Bensheim e.V.: Historical dance group who include some baroque ballroom dances in their repertoire list. (Deutsch)
Tanzemonie [Broken? 30th Apr 2008]: Performing group based in Berlin. (Deutsch)
La Danza München: Group directed by Jadwiga Nowaczek. Based in Munich. (Deutsch)
L'Espace: Berlin-based group offering classes and performances. Directed by Milo Pablo Momm. (Deutsch)
Les Pas Jolis: Group based in Erlangen. Taught by Peter Hoffmann. (Deutsch)
Les Apricots: Group, seemingly directed by Peter Hoffmann. Based near Nuremberg. (Deutsch)
Tanz durch die Jahrhunderte: Multi-period dance group based in Munich. (Deutsch)

Austria

Hof-Dantzer: Austrian historical dance company. (Deutsch/English)
ZeitenTanz: Association promoting historical dance in Austria. They run baroque dance classes and a summer school. (Deutsch/English)
Musica et Saltatoria: Dance group based in Salzburg. Possibly directed by Natalie Gal, and possibly connected to the Derra de Moroda Dance Archives. (Deutsch)
Tantz-Art: Austrian performing group, directed by Pia Brocza who also offers classes in Vienna. (Deutsch)

Switzerland

Il Teatro Arcimboldo: Swiss group of musicians, dancers and commedia actors. There is a video of them on Google Video. (Deutsch/English)
LaCaDance: Swiss baroque dance group (I think). (Deutsch)
Danza Antica: Baroque dance group with Stephan Mester and Barbara Wappmann. (Deutsch)

Belgium/Netherlands/Luxembourg

IHDP: The Institute of Historical Dance Performance, founded by Lieven Baert. Includes information about their Baroque performing group C'est Pas Grave. (English/Nederlands)
Plaisir Courtois: Renaissance, baroque and Viennese dance in Groningen, the Netherlands. (Nederlands/English/Français/Deutsch)
Nederlands Historisch Dans-en Theaterensemble: Group directed by Maria Angad Gaur.
Corpo Barocco: The activities of Sigrid T'Hooft and her Belgian group.

Sweden

Pied en l'Air: Swedish group performing 15th to 18th century dances. Apparently directed by Thommas Andersen and taught, at least some of the time, by Kaj Sylegård. (Svenska/English)
Stockholm Baroque Dancers: Dance company run by Bétina Marcolin and Karin Modigh. (Karin Modigh also gives regular baroque dance classes in Stockholm, links and contact details in her profile.) (Svenska/English)

Czech Republic

Collegium Marianum: Czech music/education organisation that puts on performances including dance. (Cesky/English)

Spain

Los Comediantes del Arte: Performing group directed by Pilar Montoya. (Espagñol/English)
La Lyra Hispana: Performing group including musicians and dancers. (Espagñol) [It looks like the dancers here use French baroque steps with a bit of Spanish movement, to go with mainly Spanish/Italian music. I'd love to know if they have sources to justify this, or if they're speculating about the dance style. Whichever, it looks like they put on entertaining, professional performances, which is more than some groups can manage.]
Esquivel: Historical dance and music company based in Madrid, with artistic director María José Ruiz. (This is probably obvious to Spanish speakers, but to get into the site content you need to click on the words "pulsa aquí" in the animation, and not have Flash JavaScript pop-ups blocked. Alternatively, this link will take you directly into the site.) (Espagñol)
Barroc Ballet: Baroque dance company directed by Teresa Alves. (Espagñol/Català/English)

Italy

Il Teatro della Memoria: Italian organisation. Their website contains mostly renaissance and some 19th-century dance, but they also organise baroque dance workshops with guest teachers. (Italiano, some English)

Poland

Ardente Sole: Performing Medieval to Baroque court ballet, directed by Romana Agnel. (Polska)

Hungary

Company Canario: Historical dance company directed by Ágota Aranyos. (Magyar/English)

Australia

The Early Dance Consort: Directed by Fiona Garlick and John Barnard, based in Sydney. Renaissance and baroque dance.
Earthly Delights: Ostensibly the website of the band Earthly Delights, but in effect it's John and Alwyn Garden's website with information about their activities. Their dance classes and associated performing group The Bordonian Heritage Dancers are multi-period, including baroque. Based in Canberra.

Japan

BaroqueDance.jp: The site of Japanese dancer Yasuko Hamanaka. I'm reliably informed that it contains information about her classes, concerts, products for sale, and some background on baroque dance. I think the information about classes overlaps with the Ballet Arte (バレエアルテ) site. (Japanese)