Workshop II: Mind Your P’s and Q’s (Pavane, Polonaise, Pony…), Saturday, July 25^th- August 1st, check in at 5pm and check out at noon on August 1^st. 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 20^th 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)

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

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

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 1^st: 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 1^st.  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 25^th) 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 1^st deadline guarantees a place for you at the workshop and in the dorms. Any registration forms and down payment received after May 1^st 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.

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.