Dorothee Wortelboer

After a training in classical ballet Dorothée Wortelboer specialized in Renaissance and Baroque dance, the dance styles from the 15th until well into the 18th century. She works as a dance tutor, choreographer and performing artist and is the artistic leader both of the professional ensemble Folia and the amateur dance group Fiori di Folia. Dorothée has been doing – and never stops doing – extensive research into the source material extant for the Renaissance and Baroque period and has written dance manuals and produced CDs in close cooperation with a number of excellent early musicians. As a guest tutor she is active in many Western- and Eastern-European countries as well as in Australia and she established her own bi-annual Summer School in Richelieu, France in 2006. A very special tutoring project is her coaching of Capella Iuvenalis, the early music choir of the Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor: the children perform vocal music from the Renaissance and dance 15th- and 16th-century dances in their concerts. Recent events directed, choreographed and researched by Dorothée include a programme of Baroque music from the Swedish court, in which she danced her own choreographies as a soloist at concerts with Diletto Musicale, the orchestra of the Groningen Centre for Early music and Dance (2008); a lecture/demonstration at the Baroque Dance Conference organized by Jed Wentz, followed by a condensation of this into an article about one of the Lambranzi dances for the Dutch Dance Magazine; another major, theatrical dance production with her amateur dance group Fiori di Folia: E pur si muove!, based on the findings and character of the astronomer Galileo Galilei (2009). The near future holds another project with the Centre for Early Music and Dance, Galliard’s Pan and Syrinx, in store, as well as a programme with the Restoration Company, one of the new and very promising Baroque ensembles in the Netherlands. As a movement coach Dorothée will be involved in Sweet and cruel. The love of Hadewijch and Arabi, a multi-cultural and multimedia production which will be performed in Groningen in May.