Baroque

In diesem Workshop wollen wir uns einmal nicht mit der Solo-Folia sondern mit dem wesentlich seltener gezeigten Duett beschäftigen. Die Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede sind für die Tänzer/innen interessant, die das Damensolo kennen, für alle anderen ist es einfach ein schöner Paartanz zu einer schönen Musik.

Grundkenntnisse im barocken Schrittrepertoire sind erforderlich.

Der Maskenball steht in diesem Jahr ganz im Zeichen einer zutiefst barocken Leidenschaft – der Jagd. Erklang das Horn zu „Hahn in Ruh’“ wurden schon zu Zeiten Johann Philipps von Walderdorff, Kurfürst von Trier und Erbauer des barocken Lust- und Jagdschlosses zu Engers die Jagdwaffen niedergelegt, um des Abends nach erfolgreicher Jagd im berühmten Saal der Diana in bester Gesellschaft zu feiern. Das erlegte Wildbret, die Früchte der Gärten und Felder füllten die Teller, Schüsseln und Töpfe mit den erlesensten Speisen.

The featured dance will be The Princess Anna (saraband and boree) 1716 by L’Abbé, notated by Pemberton. This will be the basis for exploring musicality and expression within the style and discussion of the differences between L’Abbé and Feuillet and Pecour.

The workshop is aimed at varied levels of experience in the technique. Edith works sympathetically with all dancers, and will adjust and vary the material to suit participants. In support of this approach, music will be provided by Mollie Koenisberger on violin.

Just before the Night Fountains Shows, a 40 minutes stroll around the King’s Grand Apartments with the Dance Company L’Éventail and the Amarillis Ensemble.

As at Court in the 17th century, eccentric or grand scenes which the walls of Versailles witnessed will be performed for the public: dressing ceremony, Court ball rituals, farcical uproar of Moliere’s doctors, reverence of religious music, pastoral lightness of the bagpipes. The artists of the Dance Company L’Eventail and the Amarillis Ensemble will summon characters that will come alive before our eyes…

Les Rameau à l’honneur, Pierre et Jean-Philippe

Etude des pas de base pour tous, du style d’après le Maître à danser, Pierre Rameau, 1725, des parcours, figures et symétries propres à la Belle Dance sur les musiques de danse, notamment de Haendel, et de Jean-Philippe Rameau, (année Rameau !). 

Menuet à Quatre et ornements des pas de menuets

Pour tous, séances composées de 2 parties : tous, puis intermédiaires-avancés  

Théâtre et Eloquence baroque

Baroque Dance Course with Jane Gingell

In this course we will be concentrating on consolidating technique and co-ordination by studying sequences from notated baroque dances, as well as making co-ordination exercises and step-work. The level is fairly intensive, but we will also take some lighter relief with contredanse and Playford.

We will work for about six hours each day. This course is suitable for intermediate-level students of baroque dance; it may also be of interest to more advanced dancers, but it is not suitable for beginners.

Renaissance Dances - Rhythms of Renaissance!

The morning is totally dedicated to the understanding of the dances of the late renaissance. Each day we will analyze the music and choreographies and try the more difficult variations of each single dance mentioned above.

Love and the Courtesan (Kurtisanen & Kärleken)
Stockholm Early Music Festival, Storkyrkosalen
7 June 2014 12:00

Christina Larsson Malmberg - soprano
Catalina Langborn - violin
Karin Modigh - dance/choreography
Jonas Nordberg - theorbo

Sigrid Herrault - text
Bente Rolandsdotter - costumes/scenography
Nils Spangenberg/Helena Röhr - stage direction consultant
Carl Thorborg - photo

The theme of 15` "Cracovia Danza" Court Dance Festival is music, which has been connected with dance since its beginnings. G. Dumanoir's work "Le Mariage de la Musique avec la Danse" ("The Marriage of Music and Dance") proves that the inseparable bound between those two arts has existed for many years. Masters of dance played on instruments and musicians performed the art of dance. Through the events of the "Cracovia Danza" Court Dance Festival devoted to this subject we desire to find this unique harmony of dance and music, nowadays so hard to achieve and less practiced than before.