The New York Baroque Dance Company Newsletter
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Andy Warhol, Janis Joplin and Tim Buckley  at Max's Kansas City



Thank you for supporting The New York Baroque Dance Company in our efforts to make a better place for dance and music's heritage in our culture today.  We wish you a Happy New Year and many blessings for 2016!
 

Dance of the Month Every First Saturday (except January is 2nd Sat.)

Jan.9,  Meggi Sweeney Smith
3-5pm
Mark Morris Dance Center

Explore the many facets of the  pas de bourrée.   In both music and dance, we find literature examining choices and expressive ranges within Baroque movement. This class - structured with levels for both beginners and advanced students - will take the basic pas de bourrée  and play with its transformative nature. 

Throughout the class, advanced students can challenge their technique/ explore new understandings while beginners can experience the effect of manipulating the basic movement elements of time, weight, and space. Taking the variations that resonated most with them, students will have an opportunity to develop their own expressive phrase before we experience many of these pas de bourrées in the context of reconstructed figures from Entree de Percée. 
The notation can be accessed here and anyone who is interested is welcome to bring questions about interpretation or basic notation to Meggi following the class.

Click for location and more info on future classes for Dance of the Month.

 
Alexis Silver and Olsi Gjeci, photo by Tom Caravaglia

Did you know...
The New York Baroque Dance Company offers master classes and lectures to high school and college students.  This season NYBDC guest teaches at:

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in NYC
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts  in Dallas
Bak Middle School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida
The University of Houston
The Juilliard School
Stony Brook University

In addition, members of the company teach with the faculty of Brookhaven College, Columbia University, Hofstra University, New York University, Wesleyan University and The Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria.
 
Summer Workshops 

The NYBDC teachers have been instructors in summer workshops across the world since the beginning of the company in 1976.  Michael Hewer, French actor and fencing master, attended the workshop which was documented in our DVD, Baroque Dance Unmasked   The workshop was a revelation for him.  In his own words (click for article).

In 2016
Produced by the NYBDC with guest teacher, Ana Yepes, and Catherine Turocy

Catherine Turocy is guest teacher and stage director. We are excited about the dance program which is new this year.

Catherine Turocy is a guest teacher this summer.