Seminar on Baroque Dance

Stockholm Baroque Dancers welcomes you to at seminar on Baroque Dance at Drottningholms Slottsteater August 13 at 1:30-3:00 p.m. It will be a discussion about how we create and recreate Baroque dance, the stance we take in relation to sources, and what Baroque dance means to us today.

Tickets are to be pre-booked through dst@dtm.se, and picked up att the Theatre Shop at Drottningholm. Admission 90 kr, free with performance ticket to Les Petits Riens and Don Juan and for students.

PROGRAMME:

1:30 p.m. "The 18th Century, Gustaf III and the Frolicsome Life of the Court"
Historian Christopher O'Regan gives an introduction in Swedish about the games and culture of the court of Gustaf III.

2:00 p.m. "Baroque dance: Is it some sort of ballet?"
What actually is Baroque dance, and how can one achieve the gestures and movements of three hundred years ago nowadays? Come along and hear the dialogue between Marie-Geneviève Massé, choreographer to the French Baroque dance company l’Eventail, and Lena Cederwall Broberg, dancer, dance teacher and choreologist with long experience of Swedish eighteenth century style productions, and now the keeper of the artistic heritage of Ivo Cramér.

Anna Karlander, Regional Dance Advisor in Västerbotten and dance scholar with theoretical and practical knowledge of Baroque Dance, will preside. The discussion will take place in English.

The seminar is a collaboration between Drottningholms Slottsteater, Carina Aris Minnesfond and Stockholm Baroque Dancers.

Welcome!

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