Dance Technique – Costumes – Notation – Reconstruction -- Repertoire
This Summer workshop for dancers, choreographers, teachers and researchers is meant to be part of the training in Baroque Dance leading the International Certification by the International Council CID UNESCO, Paris. Participation is not limited to CID-members.
It will take place in the Dora-Stratou-Theatre, an open-air garden theatre on the pine-tree covered Philopappou Hill in the centre of Athens, under the Acropolis.
The training contains dance classes of 4 hours every morning. On some days there will be offered afternoon lessons (introduction and exercises of dance notation, analysing baroque dance music, lecture demonstrations, costumes and behaviour at court and on stage).
Participants will have the chance to watch a performance of the well-known Dora Stratou Dance Theatre of Athens (The Living Museum of Greek Dance) and its fine collection of folk costumes, jewellery and accessoires.
The founding of a school of dancing in 1660 by the Sun King Louis XIV marks the beginning of professional education of dance teachers and dancers for court and theatre and at the same time the beginning of ballet by systematizing all body movements connected with La danse noble.
Dates: Monday through Friday 3th to 7th September 2012 , Total of teaching hours: 30
Certification of Instruction in Historical Dance provided by CID after completion of 150 hours (only for CID-members). Membership fee: 55 €/year. More information: www.cid-portal.org Level: Advanced beginners. Module I: 17th and 18th centuries: Baroque (French Court and Theatre Dance) and Late Baroque and Rococo/Classical Period
Fee: 150 € for the week, including tuition only (100 € for CID-members)
Instructor and Lecturer: Ingo S. Guenther, Berlin, Germany. Choreographer, performer, researcher, teacher (high school and university), composer, musician. CID-Member since 2006
Registration: phone: +49 30 4040624, fax: +49 30 405 84 502, mail:
inst-hist-tanz@gmx.de
The Institute of Historical Dance Ingo Guenther is a non-profit organization and was founded in
1996. It provides lessons, workshops, performances and lecture-demonstrations on historical dances
from 14th to 19th cent. It has provided regular workshops, lectures and performances (with
BarockTanzEnsemble contretem(p)s-berlin) in adult education, in high schools and music schools,
at universities and festivals of Early Music for over 24 years.
Drewitzer Str. 55, D-13467 BERLIN/GERMANY, www.contretemps-berlin.de
The Dora-Stratou Dance Theatre is a non-profit institution subsidized by the Ministry of Culture,
the Region of Athens and the National Tourist Organization.
Scholiou 8, Plaka, Gr-10558 ATHENS/GREECE, +30 210 324 4395,
www.grdance.org
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mail@grdance.org
