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Catherine
Turocy
-- The Washington Star Catherine Turocy, Artistic Director and co-founder, with Ann Jacoby , of The New York Baroque Dance Company, is internationally recognized for her contribution to the current revival of 18th-century ballet. In 1995 she was decorated by the French government in the Order of Arts and Letters in recognition of her work in French Baroque ballets. In 2001 Ms. Turocy received the prestigious New York City BESSIE AWARD for Sustained Achievement in Choreography. She is also featured in Janet Roseman’s book, Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance. Ms. Turocy has been commissioned to choreograph over thirty opera productions with the NYBDC in France, England, Germany and the United States, including Rameau's Les Boréades, Les Fêtes d'Hébé, and Pygmalion, Handel's Terpsicore and Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus. As a stage director, she has mounted Gluck's Orfeo in New York City, Handel's Ariodante for the Spoleto Festival USA and Handel's Arianna, Atalanta and Alcina in Goettingen, Germany. In addition to her many collaborations with her husband, James Richman, conductor of Concert Royal and the Dallas Bach Society, Turocy has worked often with John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, Nicholas McGegan, and Ryan Brown. Ms. Turocy’s ballets have been filmed for French, Japanese and American television and featured at international venues including the Chatelet in Paris, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, the Opéra de Lyon, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. She is grateful for the excellent training she received at Ohio State University where she was first introduced to historical dance by her teacher, Shirley Wynne, and had the opportunity to study dance composition with Ruth Currier, Lynn Dally and Peter Saul. Since then, Ms. Turocy has received numerous French, British and American awards and honors, including the Dance Film Association Award (1980) for "The Art of Dancing" video, the U.S.-United Kingdom Exchange Fellowship (1981), the U.S.-France Exchange Fellowship (1987), and numerous National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer Fellowships. She has lectured at the Royal Academies of Dance in London, Stockholm and Copenhagen; the Festival Estival in Paris; The Society for Early Music in Tokyo; in New York at the Juilliard School, New York University and Barnard College; and has served as consultant to Clark Tippett of American Ballet Theater and Edward Villella of the Miami City Ballet. Her articles have been published by Les Goûts-réunis, Dance Magazine, Opera News, Backstage, Arts International and most recently, Wesleyan University Press. |
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