PLEASE NOTE: These materials are for the in-person classes at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center. Online and other classes and workshops moving forward will be listed on the Dance Through Time website. This page will remain for reference but will not be updated.
Visual aids used in the classes (Some images are clickable to show more information):
< at left: Marie Antoinette, 1778, by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
General Reference Materials (will be added to as we progress):​
  1. ​Feuillet, Raoul-Auger. Choregraphie; Library of Congress; Amazon
  2. Rameau, Pierre. The Dancing Master (English translation by Cyril W Beaumont); Library of Congress; Amazon​; alternate translation by John Essex on Matt's Baroque Dance Pages
  3. Hilton, Wendy. Dance and Music of Court and Theater; Amazon
  4. Tomlinson, Kellom. The Art of Dancing;​ Library of Congress; Amazon
  5. Essex, John. For the furthur improvement of dancing...; Translation of  Recueil de contredances... by Feuillet, Raoul-Auger. Library of Congress; Amazon
  6. Waite, Philippa & Appleby, Judith. Beauchamp-Feuillet Notation: A Guide for Beginner and Intermediate Baroque Dance Students; available from the Consort de Danse Baroque website or contact me as I have a few copies as well.
  7. Magri, Gennaro. Theoretical and practical treatise on dancing (English translation by Mary Skeaping); Amazon; Library of Congress
  8. Dufort, Giovanni Battista. Trattato del ballo nobile; Internet Archive digitized copy
  9. Burden, Michael & Thorp, Jennifer. The Works of Monsieur Noverre; Amazon
  10. Fairfax, Edmund. Eighteenth-Century Ballet; Online Blog
2/23/2020 : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dances covered:
  1. La Vandangeuse
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Contretemps de côte (to the side)
  2. Pas de bourée
  3. Pas coupé
1/5/2020 : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dances covered:
  1. Devised contredanses in duple and triple time
​Music used in the class:
  1. Les Indes galantes, Nouvelle Entrée, Scène 6: Danse du Grand Calumet de la Paix (Danse des Sauvages); Album: "Rameau: Les Indes galantes"; Artist: Les Arts Florissants; Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau
  2. Le Divertissement Royal de Versailles, LWV 38: Menuet pour les Trompettes (1664-1670); Album; "Lully: L'Orchestre Du Roi Soleil"; Artist: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Demi coupé
  2. Pas de bourée
  3. Pas coupé
  4. Balancé
  5. Introduction to use of the arms
12/15/2019 : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dance covered:
  1. "The Rigadoone" Mr. Isaac 1706
Notation: 
7280_[1]_the_rigadoone_[isaac]_1706-isa.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. Rigaudon; Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra"; Artist: La Simphonie du Marais, Reyne; Composer: Henri Desmarets
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Pas de bourée (forwards, backwards, sideways, turning)
  2. Pas coupé
  3. Contretemps
  4. Pas grave
  5. Pas glissé
  6. Pas de sissonne
  7. Pirouette (half and quarter)
10/27 & 11/24/2019 : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dances covered:
  1. "Passacaille pour une femme" (d'Armide) Pecour 1713
  2. "Passacaille pour un homme et une femme" (de Persée) Pecour 1704
Notations: 
6560_[1]_passacaille_darmide_[pecour]_1713-pec.pdf
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6500_passacaille_persee_[pecour]_1704-pec.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. Passacaille (Armide); Album: "Les Caractères de la Danse"; Artist: Ris et Danceries; Composer: Lully, Jean-Baptiste
  2. Passacaille, Persée 1682; Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra - Disc 1"; Artist: Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset; Composer: Lully, Jean-Baptiste
  3. Lully: Armide Opera In 5 Acts With Prologue - Passacaille; Album: "Lully: Le Roi Danse - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"; Artist: Musica Antiqua Köln; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
  4. A New Ground in E minor; Album: "Chirping of the Nightingale"; Artist: Lautten Compagney; Composer: Purcell, Henry​
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Pas de bourée (forward and backwards) and pas coupé
  2. Pas de bourée vite
  3. Flying chassé (driving step backwards)
  4. Passacaille or Chaconne step
  5. Pas de bourée emboîté
  6. Jeté chassé
9/22/2019 : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dances covered:
  1. "Aimable Vainqueur"
  2. "Barbarini's Tambourine"
Notations: 
I'm sorry to say I don't have a copy of "Barbarini's Tambourine" that I can share. In class we did a reconstruction from the book "A Playford Assembly" by historian Graham Christian. Graham has a wonderful lecture and demonstration on this and other dances from this book that you can watch for free on YouTube here.
1180_[01]_aimable_vainqueur_[pecour]_1701-amv.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. Aimable Vainqueur Hésione 1700; Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra - Disc 1"; Artist: Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset; Composer: Campra, André
  2. Air Gracieux; Album: "Rameau: Dardanus - Le temple de la Gloire"; Artist: Jeanne Lamon; Composer: Jean Philippe Rameau
  3. Les Dieux; Album: "Danse Royale: Music of the French Baroque Court & Theatre"; Artist: Chatham Baroque; Composer: Premier Tambourin
  4. Barbarini's Tambourine; Album: "A Musical Journey In the Footsteps of Lewis & Clark"; Artist: Anne Enslow and Ridley Enslow; Composer: unknown
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Pas de bourée (forward and sideways) and pas coupé
  2. Pas coupé a deux movements (in two movements)
  3. Contretemps (hopping step)
  4. Pas de sissone
  5. Pas grave
8/25/2019 : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dances covered:
  1. "Chaconne pour une femme"
  2. "La Lirboulaire" (3rd couplet)
Notations: 
Click here to view or download "La Lirboulaire"
2020_[1]_chacone_femme_[pec]_1704-pec.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. The Fairy Queen Z629, ACT 5: Chaconne: Dance of the Chinese Man and Woman; Album: "Purcell - The Fairy Queen"; Artist: London Classical Players/Sir Roger Norrington; Composer: Henry Purcell
  2. Cadmus and Hermione: I. Chaconne; Album: The profound, the sublime... And the frivolous!; Artist: The Denner Ensemble; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
  3. Phaeton, Acte II: Chaconne; Album: "Lully: Phaéton"; Artist: Christophe Rousset, Chœur de Chambre de Namur & Les Talens Lyriques; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Pas de bourée (forward and sideways) and pas coupé
  2. Pas coupé a deux movements (in two movements)
  3. Contretemps de chaconne (hopping step to the side)
  4. Balancé (to the side)
7/28/2019 : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dances to the music of Henry Purcell:
  1. "Short and Sweet"
  2. "Hole in the Wall"
  3. "The Old Bachelor"
Notations: I've not been able to find an online reference to the steps of "Short and Sweet" - It is a dance attributed to Thomas Bray and I learned it from this book. The other dances are from Playford books and they can be found on this website.
Music used in the class:
  1. Short & Sweet​; Album: "Country Dances to Purcell's Music"; Artist: Playford Consort; Composer: Henry Purcell
  2. Hole In The Wall; Album: Nonsuch Volume 9; Please visit the nonsuch website for more information on these and lots of other recordings and dance references.
  3. The Old Batchelor​; Album: "Country Dances to Purcell's Music"; Artist: Playford Consort; Composer: Henry Purcell
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Pas de bourée and pas coupé
  2. Chassée and assemblé
  3. Crossing and casting
6/30/2019 : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dances covered:
  1. "The Happy Meeting"
  2. "Trip to the Jubilee"
  3. The Collier's Daughter"
Notations: They can all be found on this website of Playford dances. Download the "Trip to the Jubilee" in Feuillet notation below.
trip-to-the-jubilee.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. The Happy Meeting; Album: "Royal Delight - 17th Century Ballads & Dances"; Artist: The King's Noyse, David Douglass & Paul O'Dette; Composer: anonymous
  2. Trip to the Jubilee; Album: Nonsuch Volume 5; Please visit the nonsuch website for more information on these and lots of other recordings and dance references.
  3. The Collier's Daughter; Album: English Echoes: English Country Dance Favorites; Artist: Liz Donaldson, Colleen Reed, Becky Ross; Composer: unknown
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Pas de bourée
  2. Assemblé
  3. Chassée
4/28/2019 : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dance covered:
  1. "La Lirboulaire"
Notation: Click here to view or download
Music used in the class:
  1. Contredanse, La Lirboulaire; Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra"; Artist: La Simphonie du Marais, Reyne; Composer: anonymous
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Contretemps de gavotte
  2. Assemblé
  3. Turning pas de bourée
3/31/2019 (Shawl-Anderson Dance Center)
4/6/2019 (ODC Dance Commons)
​Guest teacher Philippa Waite, Artistic Director of Consort de Danse Baroque taught her own choreographies which I can't share because they are not yet published.
2/17/2019 : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dance covered:
  1. "Folie d'Espagne Pour Femme"
Notation: 
4740_[3]_folie_despagne_pour_femme_ms-30.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. Les Folies d'Espagne; Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra"; Artist: Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset; Composer: Lully, Jean-Baptiste
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Temps de courante / pas grave
  2. Turning pas de bourée
  3. Turning contretemps de gavotte
1/18-20/2019 : "Les Caracteres de la Danse" with Catherine Turocy @ ODC Dance Center
And the first ever Bay Early Dance Festival (BEDfest)
Original baroque choreography by Catherine Turocy was learned in this exciting 3 day workshop which ended with a performance and social dancing for the audience. Live music provided by local baroque musicians, including members of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale, and Lisa Grodin, Educational Director for PBO leading students from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Guest dancer Sarah Edgar from The New York Baroque Dance Company delighted us with her performance of the Passagalia of Venus & Adonis (choreography by Anthony L'Abbé c1725) and Carlos Venturo and Jennifer Meller danced "La Bourée d'Achille" (Louis Pécour 1700)
11/18/2018 : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dance covered:
  1. "The Basic Bach Bourée"
Notation: Unpublished choreography by Philippa Waite so the notation is not yet available for sharing.
Music used in the class:
  1. Musette (Callirhoé); Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra"; Artist: Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset; Composer: André Cardinal Destouches
  2. Les Dieux; Album: "Danse Royale: Music of the French Baroque Court & Theatre"; Artist: Chatham Baroque; Composer: Premier Tambourin
  3. Suite in E Minor BWV996 : Bourée; Album: “Bach: A Bach Recital for Guitar”; Artist: Julian Bream; Composer: J.S. Bach 
  4. Entrée de deux femmes; Album: A Choice Collection of Dances: Music for Baroque Dances at Court and Theatre; Artist: Accademia Amsterdam; Composer: André Campra
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Pas de bourée
  2. Pas coupé
  3. Pas balancé
  4. Pirouette
  5. Cutting Pas de bourée
10/28/2018 : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dance covered:
  1. "La Frȇne" (see video example)
Notation: 
la_frene.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. Musette (Callirhoé); Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra"; Artist: Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset; Composer: André Cardinal Destouches
  2. Les Dieux; Album: "Danse Royale: Music of the French Baroque Court & Theatre"; Artist: Chatham Baroque; Composer: Premier Tambourin
  3. Suite in E Minor BWV996 : Bourée; Album: “Bach: A Bach Recital for Guitar”; Artist: Julian Bream; Composer: J.S. Bach 
  4. Destouches : Les Eléments : Sarabande pour les suivants de Vénus; Album: “André Destouches / Les Festes Venitiennes /Les Elements - J.M. Hasler”; Artist: Ensemble Baroque de Limoges; Composer:  André Cardinal Destouches
  5. Contradanse La Fresne (Feuillet, 1707); Album: “Les Caractères de la Danse”; Artist: Ris et Danceries; Composer: unknown
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Demi coupé (one step to rise to equilibrium)
  2. Pas de bourée
  3. Pas de bourée emboîté
  4. Pas coupé
  5. Pas grave / temps de courante (sliding step)
  6. Pas de rigaudon
9/30/2018 : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dance covered:
  1. "La Pantomime"
Notation: 
la-pantomime.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. Musette (Callirhoé); Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra"; Artist: Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset; Composer: André Cardinal Destouches
  2. Les Dieux; Album: "Danse Royale: Music of the French Baroque Court & Theatre"; Artist: Chatham Baroque; Composer: Premier Tambourin
  3. Bourée pour les Basques; Album: "Ballet Music for the Sun King"; Artist: Aradia Baroque Ensemble, Kevin Mallon; Composer: Lully, Jean-Baptiste
  4. Entrée de deux femmes; Album: "A Choice Collection of Dances: Music for Baroque Dances at Court and Theatre"; Artist: Accademia Amsterdam; Composer: Andre Campra
  5. The Great Turk; Album: "A Choice Collection of Dances: Music for Baroque Dances at Court and Theatre"; Artist: Accademia Amsterdam; Composer: Andre Campra
  6. Phaeton, Acte II: Chaconne; Album: "Lully: Phaéton"; Artist: Christophe Rousset, Chœur de Chambre de Namur & Les Talens Lyriques; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
  7. Menuets I & II from Premiere récréation de musique d'une exécution facile; Album: "Leclair, Premiere récréation de musique d'une exécution facile..."; Artist: Collegium Musicum 90, Standage; Composer: Jean-Marie Leclair
  8. Menuet (Alcyonne); Album: "Les Caractères de la Danse"; Artist: Ris et Danceries; Composer: Marais, Marin
  9. Gavotte du Roy; Album: "Music for "Dancing Through Time""; Artist: Ivarson etc, dir Regina Beck-Friis; Composer: Claude Balon
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Bouree
    1. Demi coupé
    2. Pas de bourée
    3. Jeté
  2. Gigue
    1. Jete-chassee
    2. Pas de bourée emboîté
  3. Chaconne
    1. Pas coupé
    2. Pas grave / temps de courante
  4. Minuet / Passepied
    1. Minuet step according to Pierre Rameau
    2. Right and left-hand turn of ballroom minuet
  5. Gavotte
    1. Contretemps de gavotte
    2. Pas de rigaudon
7/22/18 Minuet Class @ Crystal Ballroom in San Jose : 3:30-5:30pm
Dances covered:
  1. The Minuet according to Kellom Tomlinson (English)
  2. The Minuet according to Pierre Rameau (French)
Music used in the class:
  1. Menuets I & II from Premiere récréation de musique d'une exécution facile; Album: "Leclair: Premiere Recreation De Musique D'Une Execution Facile / Sonata for 2 Violins in D Major"; Artist: Simon Standage; Composer: Jean-Marie Leclair
  2. Mrs Santlow's Menuet; Album: "Dances from France and England"; Artist: Consort de Danse Baroque; Composer: Annonymous
Technique/steps covered:
  1. English and French minuet step variations
  2. Contretemps de minuet (Minuet with a hop)
  3. Minuet step variation with a bound at the end (small jump on last beat)
6/24 & 7/1, 2018 (Getting gigue-y with it) : Baroque Dance Classes @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dances covered:
  1. "La Matelote"
  2. "Gigue for Beginners" - choreography by Philippa Waite
Notation: (Please see below for "La Matelote" ; Philippa's notation is not yet published)
Music used in the class:
  1. Ground; Album: "Chirping of the Nightingale"; Artist: Lautten Compagney; Composer: Anonymous, English
  2. Le cherubain; Album: "A Choice Collection of Dances: Music for Baroque Dances at Court and Theatre"; Artist: Accademia Amsterdam; Composer: André Campra
  3. Jigg by ye same; Album: "A Choice Collection of Dances: Music for Baroque Dances at Court and Theatre"; Artist: Accademia Amsterdam; Composer: Louis de la Coste
  4. The Narcissus, Jig; Album: "Airs for the Seasons"; Artist: The Leda Trio; Composer: Oswald 
  5. La Matelotte, Alcyone; Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra"; Artist: Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset; Composer: Marin Marais
Technique/steps covered:
  1. Pas de bourrée in compound duple time (gigue rhythm)
  2. Jeté
  3. Pas de bourée emboîté
  4. Jeté chassée
  5. Contretemps balonée
  6. Contretemps de gavotte (hop step-step)
5/27/18 : Baroque Dance Class @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dances covered:
  1. "La Matelote"
  2. "Le Menuet du Chevalier"
Notation:
lamatelote.pdf
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le_menuet_du_chevalier.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. Musette (Callirhoé); Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra"; Artist: Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset; Composer: André Cardinal Destouches
  2. Les Dieux; Album: "Danse Royale: Music of the French Baroque Court & Theatre"; Artist: Chatham Baroque; Composer: Premier Tambourin
  3. La Matelotte, Alcyone; Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra"; Artist: Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset; Composer: Marin Marais
Technique covered:
  1. Pas de bourrée in duple time (forwards, backwards and sideways)
  2. Contredanse exercise for practicing le movement, musicality, and spatial measuring ( demi-coupée, demi-coupée, pas-de-bourée) with and without arms
  3. Contretemps de gavotte (hop step-step)
  4. Arms: Position of elevation palms up/down, opposition arms
  5. Minuet step forwards/backwards
  6. Contretemps de minuet (hop-place, sissone, jeté)
4/25/18 : Baroque Dance Class @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm with Catherine Turocy
Dance covered:
  1. "La Bretagne" (a passepied)
Notation:
la-bretagne.pdf
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From Ken Pierce (via Catherine Turocy):
In 1704, Feuillet knew himself still overshadowed by Pécour. Dedicating Pécour’s dance La Bretagne to the Duchesse de Bourgogne, who had recently given birth to a son, Feuillet wrote that he himself would have composed a dance if he hadn’t been pre-empted by Pécour—who, said Feuillet, had made one that couldn’t be surpassed. Ever one to turn matters to his advantage, Feuillet went on to say that he then had no further thought but to pass Pécour’s dance on to posterity, by means of his notation system with which he had found the secret of recording dance movements [my emphasis]—this despite the fact that Beauchamps, in the course of his unsuccessful lawsuit that year, had been acknowledged the inventor of the notation system that Feuillet claimed as his.
Link to full article
4/24/18 : Baroque Dance Class @ ODC : 12-1:30pm with Catherine Turocy
Dance covered:
  1. "Canary: the Dance Compos'd (by) Mr Kenelm (Kellom) Tomlinson writt by him in the year 1721 & twice perform'd on the Stage"
Notation:
tomlinson-canary.pdf
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4/22/18 : Baroque Dance Class @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1:30-3:30pm
Dance covered:
  1. The Ballroom Minuet according to Kellom Tomlinson's "The Art of Dancing"
Technique covered:
  1. Pas de bourrée in triple and duple time
  2. Contradanse exercise for practicing le movement, musicality, and spatial measuring
  3. Arms: Position of elevation palms up/down, opposition arms and epaulement variations
  4. Minuet step forwards/backwards/to the left/to the right
  5. Full honours (bows for gentleman and lady)
Notations:
minuet-tomlinson.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. Ground; Album: "Chirping of the Nightingale"; Artist: Lautten Compagney; Composer: Anonymous, English
  2. Musette (Callirhoé); Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra"; Artist: Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset; Composer: André Cardinal Destouches
  3. Les Dieux; Album: "Danse Royale: Music of the French Baroque Court & Theatre"; Artist: Chatham Baroque; Composer: Premier Tambourin
  4. Le menuet à quatre; Album: "A Choice Collection of Dances: Music for Baroque Dances at Court and Theatre"; Artist: Accademia Amsterdam; Composer: Marin Marais
  5. Menuets I & II from Premiere récréation de musique d'une exécution facile; Album: "Leclair, Premiere récréation de musique d'une exécution facile..."; Artist: Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage; Composer: Jean-Marie Leclair
1/28/18 : Baroque Dance Class @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1-3:30pm
Dance covered:
  1. "The Favorite A Chaconne Danc'd by her Majesty​" from this book: "A Collection of Ball-Dances Perform'd at Court... All Compos'd  by Mr. Isaac and Writ down in Characters by John Weaver, Dancing Master" (1706)
Steps covered:
  1. Pas de bourée in triple time
  2. Pas de bourée with a leap or bound (pas de bu-jeté)
  3. Balancé to the side (demi coupée side)
  4. Tombé (falling step)
  5. Temps de courante (slide step)
  6. Soutenu turn (rising on both feet and turning)
  7. Pirouette turn (stepping with one foot behind first - en dehors/turning out)
Notations:
the_favorite-chaconne-isaac.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. Ground; Album: "Chirping of the Nightingale"; Artist: Lautten Compagney; Composer: Anonymous, English
  2. Chaconne (Phaeton); Album: "Les Caractères de la Danse" ; Artist: Ris et Danceries; Composer: Lully, Jean-Baptiste
  3. Phaeton, Acte II: Chaconne; Album: "Lully: Phaéton"; Artist: Christophe Rousset, Chœur de Chambre de Namur & Les Talens Lyriques; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
  4. Campra : Les Festes Vénitiennes : Chaconne; Album/Artist: "André Destouches / Les Festes Venitiennes /Les Elements - J.M. Hasler"; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
  5. Phaeton: Chaconne; Album: "Les grandes eaux musicales de Versailles"; Artist: Café Zimmermann; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
  6. Music in King Arthur, Chaconne; Album: "Purcell, Complete Ayres for the Theatre - Disc 1"; Artist: Parley of Instruments, Goodman; Composer: Purcell, Henry
11/19/17 : Baroque Dance Class @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1-3pm
Dances covered:
  1. Duet: "La Pettite Bourree" / La Vieille Bourrée
  2. Contradanse: "Indian Queen" (from "The Playford Ball" book)
Steps covered:
  1. Demi coupé (Le Movement / rise and fall)
  2. Pas de bourrée (forward, backward, and sideways)
  3. Balancé to the side (demi coupée side)
  4. Temps de courante
Notations:
6840_la_petitte_bouree_ms30.pdf
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indian_queen.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. Ground; Album: "Chirping of the Nightingale"; Artist: Lautten Compagney; Composer: Anonymous, English
  2. La Bourrée Dauphine; Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra; Artist: La Simphonie du Marais, Reyne; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
  3. Les Dieux; Album: "Danse Royale: Music of the French Baroque Court & Theatre"; Artist: Chatham Baroque; Composer: Premier Tambourin
  4. La Vieille Bourée; Album: "Dances from France and England"; Artist: Consort de Danse Baroque; Composer: Anonymous
  5. Indian Queen; Album: "Musica Calamus"; Artist: Musica Calamus; Composer: Jens Ewald
  6. Musette (Callirhoé); Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra"; Artist: Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset; Composer: André Cardinal Destouches
10/29/17 : Baroque Dance Class @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1-3pm
Dances covered:
  1. Contradanse: "La Matelote" pub. 1706
  2. Solo Minuet: "Mr. Isaac's Minuet" pub. 1711
​Steps covered:
  1. Pas de bourrée in duple and triple time, forward, backward,  and to the side
  2. Balancé to the side
  3. Minuet step in two movements (standard minuet step)
  4. Minuet step in three movements (a la bohemiene)
  5. Half-pirouettes (en dehors & en dedans)
  6. Contretemps de minuet
Notations:
lamatelote.pdf
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mr-isaac-minuet.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. Passacaille d'Armide; Album: "Les Caractères de la Danse"; Artist: Francine Lancelot avec Ris et Danceries; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
  2. Bourée; Composer: J.S. Bach (Bourée in E minor for guitar)
  3. Buskin; Album: "Country Dances to Purcell's Music" ; Artist: Playford Consort; Composer: Henry Purcell
  4. 3rd Menuet en Suitte; Album: "Danse Royale: Music of the French Baroque Court & Theatre"; Artist: Chatham Baroque; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
  5. Minuet (Tomlinson); Album: "Music for Dancing Through Time"; Artist: Ivarson etc., dir Regina Beck-Frills; Composer: Kellom Tomlinson
  6. Menuets I & II; Album: "Leclair, Premiere récréation de musique d'une exécution facile, etc."; Composer: Jean-Marie Leclair
  7. La Matelotte, Alcyone; Album: "Musiques à Danser à la Cour et à l'Opéra"; Artist: Les Talens Lyriques, Rousset; Composer: Marin Marais
9/24/17 : Baroque Dance Class @ Shawl-Anderson Dance Center : 1-3pm
Dance covered:
  1. Contradanse: "Le Menuet du Chevalier"
​Steps and concepts covered:
  1. The "Baroque Bubble" by Catherine Turocy
  2. Passing bows
  3. Port de Bras - wrist and arm port de bras and opposition coordination
  4. Le Movement (rise and fall) and the demi coupé
  5. Basic notation principles
  6. Bourrée in duple time
  7. Minuet step in two movements
Notation:​​
le_menuet_du_chevalier.pdf
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Music used in the class:
  1. Music in The Fairy Queen, Song Tune (If love's a sweet passion); Album: Purcell, Complete Ayres for the Theatre; Artist: Parley of Instruments, Goodman; Composer: Henry Purcell
  2. Gigue pour Baccus; Album: Ballet Music for the Sun King; Artist: Aradia Baroque Ensemble, Kevin Mallon; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
  3. Plainte Italienne de Psyche; Album: Danse Royale: Music of the French Baroque Court & Theatre; Artist: Chatham Baroque; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
  4. Britain, thou now art great, from Why are all the Muses mute?; Album: Purcell, Complete Odes and Welcome Songs, Volume 8; Artist: The King's Consort; Composer: Henry Purcell
  5. Bourée pour les Basques; Album: Ballet Music for the Sun King; Artist: Aradia Baroque Ensemble, Kevin Mallon; Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
  6. Aimable Vainqueur, Campra; Album: Dances from France and England; Artist: Consort de Danse Baroque (Philippa Waite, Director)
  7. Music in King Arthur, Song Tune (Fairest Isle); Album: Purcell, Complete Ayres for the Theatre; Artist: Parley of Instruments, Goodman; Composer: Henry Purcell
  8. Menuet (Alcyonne); Album: Les Caractères de la Danse; Artist: Ris et Danceries; Composer: Marin Marais