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Preparatory Workshop to the Baroque Bal of Contredanses

A preparatory workshop for the baroque bal is organised by festival Les Chemins de Tolerance from July 27th to July 30th in Valleraugue (South of France). It will consist of country dances in the French and in the English way. They will be taught by Guillaume Jablonka.

  • Workshop
  • Baroque
  • All levels

Imeneo at Händel-Festspiele Göttingen

Imeneo

In May 2016, the main opera production at Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen will be Händel’s Imeneo, featuring six dancers from Sigrid T'Hooft's company Corpo Barocco.
The staging uses baroque gestures and choreography, and is lit by candles. 

Imeneo 
Dramma per musica in three acts by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Libretto Silvio Stampiglia

Musical direction: Laurence Cummings
Stage direction and choreography: Sigrid T’Hooft
Set and costumes: Stephan Dietrich
Lighting: Ralf Sternberg

Singers:
William Berger Baritone – Imeneo
James Laing Countertenor – Tirinto
Anna Dennis Soprano – Rosmene
Stefanie True Soprano – Clomiri
Matthew Brook Bass-baritone – Argenio

Dancers:
Charlotte Bell, Hubert Hazebroucq, Nicolle Klinkeberg, Robert Le Nuz, Karin Modigh, Arthour Zakirov

Projektchor Imeneo
FestspielOrchester Göttingen

Read an interview with Sigrid T’Hooft on her work with Imeneo and baroque gestures »

Performances at Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen, Deutsches Theater
6, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16 May 2016

 

  • Performance
  • Baroque
  • Professionals

The Galant Body. Relationships between Music & Dance in the 18th. Century - “INTERNATIONAL & ACADEMIC BODY: MINUET & DANCE SUITE”De

Dance body in the academic style. Research of the transdisciplinar equipement. Reference 

Dr. Aurelia Pessarrodona & Dr. Maria José Ruiz Mayordomo

El Equipo de Investigación Transcisciplinar formado por Aurèlia Pessarrodona y Marìa Josè Ruiz Mayordomo, en vivo y en directo. Fotografía de portada obra de Pablo Fernández Juárez. Abordaremos el minueto y las danzas de la suite de un modo diferente: desde la corporalidad coreomusical como línea de investigación, tomando como base de inicio uno de los textos publicados y disponibles para todo el público: "Aproximación corporal al pensamiento coréutico de Luigi Boccherini a partir del célebre minuetto" https://www.academia.edu/12727084/Aproximacion_corporal_al_prensamiento… (Departament d’Art i Musicologia - aula 605)

 

  • Conference
  • Rococo
  • All levels