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Historical Dance Summer Workshop at Goucher College: July 25th - August 1st, 2009, a Project of The New York Baroque Dance Company

Special Tuition Announcement!

Dancers who attend both the Historical Dance Program at the Amherst Early Music Festival (July 11-19, 2009), and the Historical Dance Summer Workshop at Goucher College (July 25-August 1, 2009) will receive a tuition discount of 30% from each workshop!

Dear Students, 

We are very excited about our summer workshop at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.  I am happy to announce Charles Garth will be joining the faculty this year.  For his bio and more information on the teachers, please scroll to Faculty. We look forward to our revised format (informed by student comments from the last two workshops) and to the workshop’s opening and closing dance parties. I hope to see you at this unique workshop July 25-August 1, 2009.

Sincerely,

Catherine Turocy, Artistic Director

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Workshop I: Circles, Sets and Serpentines, Saturday, July 25th:  This one day workshop with a full day of classes in 15th-20th century dance, ending with the Playford Country Dance and Music Party with a live band, is open to professional and college level dance students, teachers and choreographers as well as living history dancers, musicians, singers, actors and dance enthusiasts. Students will learn typical steps and choreographic patterns from the Pavane to the Tango. An emphasis will be placed on group social dances in circles, sets and serpentines!

Tuition $125

Workshop II: Mind Your P’s and Q’s (Pavane, Polonaise, Pony…), Saturday, July 25th- August 1st, check in at 5pm and check out at noon on August 1st. This 6 day workshop begins with the Playford Country Dance and Music Party on Saturday night and includes the Vintage Ball on Friday, July 31st with student demonstrations of dances worked on over the week.  Covering dances from the Renaissance through the 20th century with classes for beginners and students at the intermediate/advanced level, this workshop explores dance in the theater, dance halls and at private salons. Classes in mask and period movement are offered to all levels. With evening lectures and coachings and attendees from around the world, this is one of the most popular workshops of its kind in the country.  (Please note this workshop is longer than last year’s, with one more day of classes.)

Tuition: $500 

Workshop III: Combined Workshop July 25th-August 1st: You can do the one day workshop with classes and Playford Country Dance and Music Party and the weeklong workshop and Vintage Ball.

Tuition: $575, a savings of $50. 

 Class Schedule

Workshop I: Saturday, July 25   (These classes are all mixed level)

9:00 -9:30 Morning check-in, complimentary coffee and muffins will be served.
9:30-10:15 Welcome students and a warm-up given by Catherine Turocy
10:20-11:30 Twentieth century social dance taught by Richard Powers
11:45-1:00 19th century social dance taught by Richard Powers
1:00-2:00 Lunch, brown bag lunch can be purchased, complimentary drinks
2:00- 3:15  18th century social dance with Catherine Turocy
3:30-4:45 17th century social dance with Catherine Turocy
5:00-7:00 check in for Students attending week long workshop
7:30 – 9:30 Playford Country Dance and Music Party. (live band TBA) Complimentary snacks and drinks.  Students who wish to purchase catered sandwiches and beverages may do so and will be notified with menu options in advance. Catherine Turocy and Charles Garth are calling the dances. Instrumental music will be played for our pleasure between dance sets.

 Workshop II: Party on Saturday July 25 and classes are July 26- August 1

 Class Schedule Sunday, July 26- Thursday, July 30th

7:30-8:00 Breakfast
8:15 - 8:45 Ballet/historical warm-up for all taught by Catherine Turocy in Studio 1
8:45-10:00 Beginning level: Renaissance dance with Charles Garth in Studio II
  Intermediate/Advanced level: 20th century dance with Richard Powers in Studio I
10:15- 11:30 Beginning level:  18th century dance with Catherine Turocy in Studio II
  Intermediate/Advanced level: 19th century dance with Richard Powers in Studio I
11:30-12:15 Lunch
1:00-2:15

Beginning level: Renaissance and Baroque dance reconstruction with Charles Garth in Studio I

  Intermediate/Advanced level: 18th century dance with Catherine Turocy in Studio II
2:30-3:45

Mixed level: Waltz and variations class with Richard Powers in Studio I

  Intermediate/Advanced level: Renaissance dance with Charles Garth in Studio II
4:00-5:15 Both levels: Period movement alternating with mask work for the Noble and Grotesque styles with Catherine Turocy in Studio I 
6:00-6:45 Dinner

Friday Class Schedule, July 31: The time of classes remains the same and each class will review the presentation for the evening. Classes will finish by 4pm so the students will have a break before the evening’s festivities.  Studios will be available for private practice. 

Saturday, August 1st: time to be announced, final wrap up and brunch and check out by noon.

Evening Activities begin at 7:30

Saturday: Playford Country Dance and Music Party from 7:30-9:30

Sunday: Open sharing/discussion of projects by teachers and students. The purpose of this event is to become familiar with what is going on in the historical dance field in other regions of the country. We hope to promote a growing and supportive network for dance.

Monday: Video Night, please be in touch with us if you would like to show your work.  We will also have some footage from the New York Baroque Dance Company performances.

Tuesday: Feuillet notation coaching for Intermediate/Advanced students in Studio 1 with Catherine Turocy

Wednesday: Explore Baltimore

Thursday: Lecture by Richard Powers: The Parisian Public Balls of the 19th century

Friday: Vintage Ball from 7:30-9:30

Faculty:

Charles Garth began his career as a ballet dancer. After switching to Early Dance (Renaissance and Baroque court dance and 19th century social dance), he has performed, choreographed, and taught in Europe, South America, Australia, Russia, Japan, South Africa, and throughout the United States. He has danced in Hollywood films and television, and directs early opera productions including the Boston Early Music Festival's production of Monteverdi's Orfeo. Garth has been a member of the faculty of Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland, Rutgers University, co-founded the International Early Dance Institute, and for many years directed The Court Dance Company of New York.

Richard Powers is one of the world's foremost experts in American social dance.  He conducts workshops in Paris, Rome, Prague, London, Venice, Geneva, St. Petersburg and Tokyo as well as across the U.S. and Canada.  He has been researching and reconstructing historic social dances for thirty years and is currently a full-time instructor at Stanford University's Dance Division.  Selected by the Centennial Issue of Stanford Magazine as one of Stanford's most notable graduates of its first century, he was also awarded the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for distinctive and exceptional contributions to education at Stanford University.  He will be teaching various levels of 19th and 20th century dance plus the history of the waltz.

Catherine Turocy, recognized as a leading choreographer/reconstructor in the field of 18th century dance, has been decorated by the French Republic as a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters, received the prestigious BESSIE Award in New York City for sustained achievement in choreography and in 2008 received the Natalie Skelton Award for Artistic Excellence. NEA Exchange Fellowships have allowed her to live, study and perform in London and Paris. As a founding member of the Society for Dance History Scholars, Ms. Turocy lectures on period performance practices of the 17th and 18th centuries and her papers have been published by the society. She has also contributed chapters to dance history text books, articles to Opera News and Dance Magazine, many which have been translated into French, German, Japanese and Korean. Known as an accomplished performer in her own right, Ms. Turocy has been given a chapter in Janet Roseman’s book, Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance published by Routledge. She is the Artistic Director and co-founder of The New York Baroque Dance Company.

More information on the workshops:

Room and Board

Double occupancy room and board: $50 per night

Single occupancy room and board: $70 per night

Meals are only available to dorm residents.  For students not staying at the dorm who wish to eat at the cafeteria, you can pay per meal at the cash register.

The college is not providing rooms or meals for the one day workshop.  If you are doing the one day workshop and staying overnight, you need to book a hotel.  For those students who check in on Saturday for the full week workshop, you will be able to stay in the dorms that night and the first meal will be brunch on Sunday.  Check out is the following Saturday morning, August 1st.  These are the only check in and check out days allowed by Goucher College, no exceptions.

Other fees:

Administration and handling fee: $35

For non-dorm participants Goucher College is charging $20 per day (except for the classes on July 25th) per non-resident student to cover security and insurance costs of the college. For those students staying in the dorms, this fee is included in the room and board fee.

Time of payment: 25% of tuition must be submitted with the registration form by May 1, 2009.  The remainder of the tuition and room and board is due July 1, 2009.  Meeting the May 1st deadline guarantees a place for you at the workshop and in the dorms. Any registration forms and down payment received after May 1st will be put on a “first come -first served” basis.  Registration closes July 1st.

Checks should be made out to The New York Baroque Dance Company and mailed with the registration form to Rachel List, The New York Baroque Dance Company,  141 East Third Street, Suite 2D, New York, NY 10009.

Email the form to: nybaroquedance@yahoo.com  and pay on-line with a credit card or by phone by calling the boxofficetickets number: 1-800-494-8497.

For more information please call Rachel List at 212-673-0551.

Information about room and board and local hotels:

Goucher College is located in Baltimore, Maryland: 1021 Dulaney Valley Road. The campus is in walking distance of restaurants, hotels, and shopping centers. Public transportation is located near campus. Hotels can be reserved by you directly at www.campustravel.com/university/goucher/ or students are welcome to stay in campus dorms and need to provide their own sheets, towels and pillows or, Goucher College can provide these for a fee of $30.  If you choose to use this service from the college, please notify us and reserve your linens with full payment by May 1, 2009.  The NYBDC will make the dorm reservations for you. Dorms are air conditioned. Meal plans are included with stay on campus.

For information about our previous workshops click Class Archives.
 

Dance of the Month Club Continues with The NYBDC!   2009

What: 18th Century Dance Classes offered by The New York Baroque Dance Company

When: Every first Saturday of the month from 3:30-5:00PM

Where: Mark Morris Dance Center at 3 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, New York (corner of Flatbush Ave). www.markmorrisdancegroup.org/schoollocate.cfm.

Cost: only $13 per class!

Description: Discover the mad craze in Follia, the sexy courtship of the elegant Minuet, the full passion of the Bouree and the pyrotechnic challenges in the Sarabande. Learn the dances of the Baroque period with musicians, actors and more! This open class with live music accompaniment on period instruments promises to be a mixing of the art scene as never experienced before. Break the barrier of tedium and discover a portal to the 18th century!

Who can come? This class is open to professional dancers, teachers, students, musicians, singers, actors and dance enthusiasts. Expand your circle of friends as you meet new people and learn the proper way to offer a hand during the minuet or how to cut a caper in the jig! Ages 13 and up are welcome to join us.

What do I wear? Please wear a flexible dance shoe, no street shoes are allowed in the studios. Casual dance or exercise clothing is recommended.

What is the dance of the month?

2009    
January 10: Sarabande Ani Udovicki
February 7: Rigaudon Contredanse Seth Williams
March 7: Passacaille Caroline Copeland
April 4:Chaconne Ani Udovicki
May 2:Gigue Caroline Copeland
June 6: Loure Caroline Copeland
July 11:George Washington's Minuet Caroline Copeland
August 1:La Contredanse Ani Udovicki
    

Hope to see you there! Call 212-662-8829 if you have any questions or email nybaroquedance@yahoo.com.

Classes in New York City are offered by dancers of the New York Baroque Dance Company when our schedule allows. If you are interested in being on our mailing list please contact sarah at sarahesther2000@yahoo.com.