Ensemble for Renaissance Music and Dance Cortesía aims to create the mood, grace and elegance of an evening at a Renaissance court with its programme of music and dance. Their selections offer diverse musical and dance styles from a range of countries, including France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, England and Slovenia. The dancers and musicians are dressed in immaculate period costumes, the ensemble (recorders, gamba, harpsichord, percussion, and voice) is synchronized beautifully with the dancers’ movements. The richness of the dancing performance is in the details: the lightness of step, the fluidity of arm movements, the carriage of the head, and the expressiveness of the dancers’ faces. The passion of the Ensemble Cortesía is to breathe life into Renaissance music and dance for contemporary audiences.
From a rewiew by Dr. Sandra Graham, Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis.
