Moving Through Time: Baroque Dances Old and New

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Robert Mealy, Director
With students from Juilliard Dance and baroque dancers

Jean-Féry REBEL Les Élemens
REBEL Les caractères de la danse
John BLOW Suite from Venus and Adonis
Jean-Philippe RAMEAU Suite from Naïs 

We bring together different worlds of dance with this program: Aaron Loux, an alum of the Juilliard dance program, is creating a new choreography with current Juilliard dancers based on a suite from Rameau’s Naïs of 1749. And four Baroque dancers, under the direction of dancer/choreographer Caroline Copeland, will perform new Baroque choreographies to Jean-Féry Rebel’s Les caractères de la danse and a suite of dances from John Blow’s Venus and Adonis. The program will begin with Rebel’s explosive orchestral suite of Les Élemens, which begins with a depiction of 18th century chaos: all the notes of the scale sounded at once!

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