Saturday, February 28 2:00-4:00 pm
The Link Event Center, 4815-B Hillsborough Road, Durham 27705
(the building behind Triangle Music School)
Students, Families, and Teachers welcome.
A limited number of students are also invited to perform a short Baroque dance piece!
Baroque Dance Rhythms for Musicians
A Workshop by Paige Whitley-Bauguess
Experience Baroque dance and music rhythm relationships through basic steps and gestures. Paige leads participants through basic steps and sequences to typical Baroque dance music as well as corresponding selections from students’ music studies. The ultimate goal is to internalize rhythm and “character” of the dance types encountered in Baroque music repertoire: sarabande, bourée, gavotte, menuet, gigue, etc.
"...a dance class beyond criticism! Helpful, enjoyable, & fun because it was a non-threatening event to newcomers like me. I learned more than I could have imagined about playing Baroque music."
Feedback from a Student, Twin Cities Baroque Instrumental Program
Paige Whitley-Bauguess interprets, recreates, and performs Baroque theatre dance in venues all over the world. A recent presenter wrote what [she does] is excellent – artistic, interesting, historic – and downright exciting not to mention fun…one could not ask for more, (Steven Cooksey, Shenandoah University). She is producer of two baroque dance DVDs: Introduction to Baroque Dance-Dance Types and Dance of the French Baroque Theatre featuring artistic collaborations with Thomas Baird. Paige has stage directed baroque operas for festivals and universities in the US and has given masterclasses and workshops at universities, museums, and historical sites in the US, Canada, Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore, and Japan. As dance faculty for the Twin Cities Baroque Instrumental Program, Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, Modern Early Music Institute, East Coast Baroque Dance Workshop at Rutgers University, and Stanford Baroque Dance Workshop, she has taught Baroque dance to countless musicians, dancers, and actors. She has also taught masterclasses for Suzuki students and teachers in DC, Virginia, and North Carolina. Paige is a former member of the NY Baroque Dance Company and holds an MA in Dance History from the University of California at Riverside and a BFA in Ballet from the UNC School of the Arts. Visit Paige at www.BaroqueDance.com
