Rape of the Lock. a newly composed opera by Deborah Mason with stage direction by Catherine Turocy and choreography by Caroline Copeland in the Neo Baroque style.
 
Beginning Dance Rehearsals in January for Our Newest Collaboration, 
Rape of the Lock

Rape of the Lock  is a new opera composed by Deborah Mason based on Pope's masterpiece. Catherine Turocy will be doing the modern stage direction. Caroline Copeland, (Associate Director of the NYBDC) choreographer, will create in the neo-Baroque style for members of the New York Baroque Dance Company playing sylphs, Carly Fox Horton, Alexis Silver and Meggi Sweeney Smith. Jack Lynch will conduct. Click Here for more information on this exciting World Premiere.

O Come Chiare e Belle by the Young George Frederick Handel 
February 12, 2016 at 8pm, FREE ADMISSION, Second Presbyterian Church, West 96th Street at Central Park West in NYC

The Stony Brook Opera Workshop joins with the Stony Brook Baroque Players to present a staged production of Handel's little-known jewel  O Come Chiare e Belle with stage direction by  Catherine Turocy for three singers and small Baroque orchestra. This hour long serenata depicts Rome's return to glory.  Arthur Haas conducts the Stony Brook Opera cast and Stony Brook Baroque Players.

Repeat Performance: February 14 2016, 3:00 PM Recital Hall | Staller Center for the ArtsTickets: $10/$5

 Le Mozart Noir, the Untold Story   February 26 and 27, 2016 in Dallas, Texas.   Catherine Turocy and Marcea Daiter are the advisers for this new ballet by  Valerie Shelton Tabor  danced by her troupe,  
Contemporary Ballet Dallas, and produced by the  Dallas Bach Society. 

A special evening on the life and times of the illustrious Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George, son of a French planter of the lesser nobility in the Caribbean and a woman of African heritage. The story of the improbable rise of this amazing man to prominence as one of the most important violinists and conductors in 18th-century Paris will be told in this multimedia evening featuring a new ballet by Valerie Shelton Tabor of Contemporary Ballet Dallas, with period social dance by Baroque choreographer Catherine Turocy and Haitian dance expert Marcea Daiter.   This unique evening, funded by a grant from the Donna Wilhelm Family Fund of TACA, will be given in cooperation with the Booker T. Washington School for the Arts, in their fabulous Montgomery Arts Theater. Read More

Nights in Paris  March 16, 2016   in Palm Beach, Florida
Court dances and the chaconne from Gluck's Armide will be danced by company members Brynt Beitman, Joseph Caruana, Carly Fox Horton, Alexis Silver, Meggi Sweeney Smith and Andrew Trego with choreography by Catherine Turocy. More news forthcoming.

Baroque Music and Dance Program,  April 12, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
at Alice Tully Hall with 
Juilliard415 
and 
Robert Mealy.
Caroline Copeland  will be joined with Alexis Silver, Andrew Trego and former NYBDC alum Carlos Fittante in suites of dances from Lully Operas and from Handel's Terpsichore.

LA CALISTO by Francesco Cavalli and Giovanni Faustini, May 6, 2016, 7:30 PM and May 8, 2016, 2:00 PM at the Athenaeum Theatre 2936 N. Southport Avenue in Chicago 
Produced by Haymarket Opera with stage direction by Sarah Edgar, Associate Director of The New York Baroque Dance Company...Read More

Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart
Auditions are now being held for this vocal  summer program at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. Catherine Turocy is the stage director and James Richman will be conducting. Exact performance dates to be announced. Read more about this unusual festival for young professionals.




     
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Catherine Turocy, Artistic Director
Caroline Copeland and Sarah Edgar, Associate Directors

Dancers: Brynt Beitman, Joseph Caruana, Carly Fox Horton, Rachel List, Glenda Norcross, Alexis Silver, Meggi Sweeney Smith, Matthew Ting, Andrew Trego, Ani Udovicki, Scott Weber