The New York Baroque Dance Company

2023 in Review

At The National Arts Club

This past December 7th James Richman and I were guest lecturers at the prestigious National Arts Club in New York City. If you missed our lecture on Les Arts Florissants by Charpentier, complete with photos and video excerpts, you can catch the recording!

The Pleasures of the Quarrel:

staged opera excerpts by Mondonville, Orlandini, and Dauvergne

A video of this work is available! Click here for VIDEO.

We are creating a marketing plan to mount this unusual production around the country. The successful Cornell premiere of 2022 used a student orchestra and added student dancers to our NYBDC group. The flexibility of the project is its strength and creates a learning experience for the students in period performance practice and repertoire. Rebecca Harris Warrick led us in this daring project!

Photos above reveal the period and modern stagings of 3 mid-18th century works... a playful romp with video projected sets, dance, music and theater, all wrapped together to enlighten the audience on one of the most controversial "quarrels " in music history. If you are interested in booking this project, please be in touch with Catherine Turocy.

Historical Dance at Play,

bringing our international community of historical dancer/scholars to your home!

Our summer zoom workshop, with over 10 early dance specialists participating, brings the historical dance community together. Our goal is to encourage international exchanges in research, teaching and performance methods and to support comradery across borders of time and space. Click the video link to see our spotlight on Millicent Hodson or read more about our past 2023 workshop here. Our 2024 workshop is in its planning stages.

Baroque Practice

a Weekly Free Zoom Class

This free service to our community is open to everyone: Read More

Site Specific Performances

In the NY community, dancer Julia Bengtsson has been promoting historical site-specific performances, demonstrations and lessons for the general public. We hope to expand this project with more dancers and musicians to include the stories of colonial Haiti and Jamaica with the help of our long time collaborator, Marcea Daiter and groundbreaking research from Caroline Copeland on the dances Ignatius Sancho.

Prelude, the film below, was made in 2019. This is the final dance from Bach Figures which was adapted to the streets of New York City.

Bach Figures performed in Dallas

and now available for curation!

Catherine Turocy mounted her neo-Baroque ballet, Bach Figures, on the NYBDC (performed on solo cello by Sydney ZumMallen), for the 2023-24 opening season concert of the Dallas Bach Society. In addition to this work the company danced to the Bach French Suite #5 for Harpsichord with James Richman playing. We would like to market these two works to other early music chamber ensembles. Please contact Catherine Turocy by replying to this email if you are interested in this new project, Bach and the Dance.

The NYBDC Archives are a resource for writers, students, teachers, professionals and the general public. You never know when a writer is going to ask for a photo of the production of Atalanta by Handel, performed in 2005, at the International Goettingen Handel Festival. And if we do not have it, we can find it. Thank you Pierre Dupouey for this awesome photo of the fireworks at the end of the opera. Atalanta Review

Mentoring Many Artists...

has always been a policy of the NYBDC. Take a look at our documentary video revealing our approach to reconstructing Baroque performance and see how many of the speakers are now well -known artists in our field...almost 25 years later. Teaching, performing, researching and mentoring professionals for the future is how we grow the field of historical dance.

Community

Our company and specifically the dancers, are active in the New York City dance community. Pictured here are myself, Julia Bengtsson, Matthew Ting, Julian Donahue, friend and singer Nick Garza, Alexis Silver, Carly Fox and Brynt Beitman. Not pictured are dancers Meggi Sweeney Smith, Patrick Pride and Irenie Melin-Gommper and Associate Directors Caroline Copeland and Sarah Edgar.

Click HERE to see what the dancers are up to!

The Video Below is a trailer for our performances at North Park Mall in Dallas. We are returning this coming Mard Gras, 2/13/2024! This is another example of the NYBDC going outside the concert hall and into the community!

Collaboration

Laundry day for the NYBDC involves hand washing as well as dry cleaning and costume repairs. I suppose period wardrobe care is also a part of our activities! Our costumes are worn by our dancers and can be rented for singers as long as the NYBDC is a part of the production. We are happy to participate and collaborate with other institutions. Off the shelf...

Thank you to those who have already donated this season. And many thanks to those who give automatic monthly donations through PayPal. We appreciate your ongoing support!

How Can I Support Historical Dance and NYBDC Projects?

DONATE here, on our website through PayPal. Also, a qualified charitable distribution (QCD) can be a great way to support the New York Baroque Dance Company and minimize tax liability. Checks are also accepted.
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