Philippa Waite, Artistic Director of Consort de Danse Baroque, is well know as a teacher, choreographer and performer of Early Dance and is based in Wales, UK.
After training as a dance teacher, she specialised in Baroque dance, and studied with Wendy Hilton, internationally acknowledged expert in the field, in the USA, where Philippa subsequently acted as one of her teaching assistants.
Philippa is co-author with Judith Appleby of Beauchamp-Feuillet Notation: A Guide for Beginner and Intermediate Baroque Dance Students and has recently published A Collection of New Choreographies in the Baroque Style, to Telemann's Hochzeit-Divertissement, notated by Judith Appleby.
Philippa wrote and presented an edition of BBC Radio 3's The Early Music Show on Baroque dance music. As well as performing and choreographing in period style Philippa teaches regular historical dance classes in the UK and is guest tutor of Period Movement & Dance at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff, UK.
More information can be found on: www.ukbaroquedance.com
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