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Dance
Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance

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be ordered from Amazon.com
Janet Roseman's book is a collection of conversational interviews
with seven well-known dancers and choreographers: Edward Villela,
Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris, Catherine Turocy, Alonzo King, Danny
Grossman and Michael Smuin. Featuring biographies, interviews and
photographs, it offers insight into the life of each choreographer,
exploring their professional development, relationships with mentors
and audiences, their creative process, the effects of dancing on the
body, and what it simply feels like to dance.
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Routledge (March 1, 2001)
ISBN: 0415929520
Product Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 0.5 inches |
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Voltaire’s
Temple of Glory

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be ordered from Amazon.com
Based on the writings of Voltaire, this baroque ballet by Catherine
Turocy takes place in Voltaire's home while he is writing the libretto
for a court celebration (Temple de la Gloire) concerned with the nature
of royalty. There is an Air for Heroes and Demons, Air for the Muses
(Passepied), a Minuet, a Loure, Air for Bacchus, Air for Followers
of Bacchus, Gavotte I and II for Venus and Mars, and Final Contradanze.
Filmed at the Jarvis Conservatory, Napa, California. Music by Jean-Philippe
Rameau. Performed by the Concert Royal and 18 dancers and workshop
students in period costume. 1998, 27 mins. |
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The
Pleasures of the Dance

may
be ordered from Amazon.com Written,
directed and choreographed by Catherine Turocy. Music by Rameau, Lully,
Leclair. Performed by the Concert Royal. Filmed at the Jarvis Conservatory
with Catherine Turocy, Deda Christina Colonna, and 13 dancers and
workshop students in period costume.
Eighteenth century Paris is the setting for this Baroque dance video
in which the aristocratic Madame Montaigue brings to life a salon
gathering where a menuet 'deux, a gigue' deux (choreography by Feuillet)
, and a menuet 'quatre (choreography by Gaudrau) are danced. Next,
at the dancing master's house, after a fencing lesson and a sarabande
lesson, a forlana and the Rigaudon from La Bretagne (all choreographed
by Picour) are performed. Then players from a Commedia troupe perform
The Peasant in a Basket and The Three Legged Dance. Finally, onstage
at the Paris Opera, Terpsicore, her attendants, faun, and sylvans
perform a gavotte, musette, and tambourin. |
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The
Spirit of 18th Century Dance

Also available directly from the NYBDC is "The Spirit of 18th
Century Dance: A Baroque Ballet Workshop," a brief documentary
on the process of reviving dance from the baroque era, filmed during
the company's summer workshop progam. For more information please
contact Tonya Assid at at nybaroquedance@yahoo.com |
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