Laura Dwight PhotographyCaroline Copeland received a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Goucher College in Baltimore, M.D. Her love of history and dance led her to the New York Baroque Dance Company under the direction of Catherine Turocy where her featured roles include the title role in Handel’s Terpsicore, Euridice in Gluck’s Orphée, and the Galant in Mozart’s Les Petits Riens. Ms. Copeland has acted as assistant director to Ms. Turocy in her productions of Rousseau’s Le Devin du Village with Antoine Plante and the Mercury Baroque Ensemble, as well as Handel’s Atalanta with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra at the Deutches Theatre in Göttingen, Germany. Additionally, she researches topics on social and theatrical history for company productions and interprets Feuillet notation, a form of 18th c. dance notation. Most recently she co-created a show with Ms. Turocy for
the re-opening of the historic Federal Hall in downtown Manhattan.
Ms. Copeland has also performed as a guest artist with the Boston Early Music Festival in their productions of Lully’s Thésée and Pysché as well as Conradi’s Ariadne. Ms. Copeland has appeared with numerous companies and contemporary choreographers in the New York City area, including Company Rindfleisch, The Metropolitan Opera, The New York Collegium, The Maffei Dance Company, and Trebien Pollard/Skeleton Dance Project.
Ms. Copeland’s dancing has been described as “sublime”, “alluring”, and
“enrapturous” earning her mentions in the Wall Street Journal, Backstage Magazine, and Show Business Weekly. Ms. Copeland has held classes and workshops for actors, singers, educators, and children of all ages and for various groups, including the Aquila Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, Lee Strasbourg Institute, and Suny New Paltz. She has also studied period fencing with Maestro Ramón Martínez and stage combat with Joseph Daly
at HB Studios in New York City.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Julie Lemberger Photography
Education
1992-1996 Bachelor of Arts, Goucher College, Towson, MD
Emphases: History/Criticism and Performance/Choreography
Dance Education
1987, 1989-1991 Jofferey Ballet School Summer Program
1988 School of American Ballet Summer Program
1996 Tisch School of the Arts Summer Program
1996-1998 NYBDC Baroque Ballet Summer Workshop, Napa, CA
1998-2003 STEPS School of Dance, Horton Technique and Ballet
2005- Peridance, Ballet with Rachel List
Awards and Honors
1993-1996 Dance Gala Scholarship
1995 and 1996 Outstanding Dancer of the Year Award
Teaching Experience
Elementary School Programs
George Washington Loved to Dance
Happy Hollow Elementary School, West Lafayette, IN Grades 3-5th
Sherwood Elementary School, Olney, MD Grades K-5th
Workshops/Classes in 16th-18th century movement: Deportment, Etiquette, and Dance
SUNY Stony Brook Theatre Department
Lee Strasbourg Institute: Mask and Gesture Class
SUNY New Paltz Theatre Department
Manhattan School of Music
The Aquila Theatre
Lincoln Center Theatre
Vassar College
De Sales University
Fordham University
Assistant to Catherine Turocy, Director of the New York Baroque Dance Company
Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter Mountain, New York
Early Music Institute @ Indiana University at Bloomington
Kaatsbaan Extreme Ballet Summer Program
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Productions Credits
Director
October 2006 An Entertaining Assembly for George Washington
Thirty minute dance concert with a master of ceremonies, eight dancers, and three musicians. It was presented in the style of an assembly or ball for the re-opening of Federal Hall in downtown Manhattan. Reconstructed and choreographed the dances along with Ms. Turocy. Gathered primary source material for the script from dancing manuals and colonial-era newspapers.
November 2006 Barn Dance
30 minute dance concert juxtaposing 18th century dance with Appalachian clogging. Reconstructed and choreographed four baroque ballroom dances including a minuet and hornpipe. Created the structure for the final dance, “The Richmond” which used elements of baroque dance and clogging.
Assistant Director in Opera
May 2005 Handel’s Atalanta
The Handel Festspiele
Performed at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen, Germany
Nicholas McGegan Conducting The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Director: Catherine Turocy
May 2004 Rousseau’s Le Devin Du Village
Performed at the Wortham Center, Cullen Theatre
Antoine Plante Conducting the Mercury Baroque Ensemble, Houston, Texas
Director: Catherine Turocy
Original Choreography and Reconstructions
March 2008 De Sales University Spring Dance Concert
Des Espaces Autres (Contemporary Dance)
Music by Louise Attaque
Original Choreography by Ms. Copeland
October/November 2007 365 Days/Plays
Week 50: Inflation, or the Vigorous Style of the moderns (Contemporary Dance)
Performed at HERE and The Public Theatre
Directed by Lenora Champagne
Choreography for the Vigorous Dance of Moderns by Ms. Copeland
March 2007 A Midsummers Night Dream
Performed at the Abingdon Theatre, NYC
The Dark Lady Players
Directed by Mahayana Landowne
Elizabethan Choreography by Caroline Copeland
October 2006 Music for the Sun King
Performed at Rose Hall, The Allen Room, NYC
Andrew Parrott conducting the New York Collegium
Reconstructed “passacaille d’Armide” as published in 1713 with choreography by Pécour
Original Choreography for “Echoe” from Lully’s La grotte de Versailles and
Sarabande en Rondeau from Lully’s Armide
December 2005 Venus
Avant/Aprés le Deluge, CRS Studio Theatre, NYC
10 minute solo/character study of the archetypal Venus
Music: found sounds mixed and edited by Ms. Copeland and Chris Wotlmann
Reconstructions from Feuillet Notation
Recüeil De Danses par M. Pécour 1700
La Bourgogne
Recüeil De Danses par M. Pécour 1704
Sarabande pour une femme
Sarabande á Deux from Tancrede
Passacaille pour un homme et une femme from Persée
Folies d’espagne pour un homme
Entrée Espangnolle pour un homme et une femme
Entrée Espangnolle pour une femme
Nouveau Recüeil de danse de bal et celle de ballet Pécour 1713
Passacaille d’Armide
A New Collection of Dances/ Anthony L’Abbé first published in 1725
Chaconne de Galathee
Recüeil De Danses par M. Feüillet 1709
Folies d’espagne pour une Femme
A Collection of Ball dances perform’d at Court Mr. Issac 1706
The Richmond
A New Collection of Ball and Stage Dances Le Roussau 1720
Chaconne for Arlequin
P. Siris 1725
The Diana
Unpublished Manuscript 1700-09
La Bourée Dauphine
PERFORMANCE
Baroque Dance
1996- The New York Baroque Dance Company
Director: Catherine Turocy
Principal Roles include:
“Terpsicore”
Handel’s Terpsicore
Choreography: Ms. Turocy
Neues Palais, Sans Souci, Potsdam, Germany June 2005
Florence Gould Hall, New York City, New York September 2005
Oberlin Early Music Institute Oberlin, Ohio June 2006
“Doris”
Royer’s Le Pouvoir de l’Amour
Choreography: Ms. Turocy
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio February 2003
“Shepherdess in Disguise”
Mozart’s Les Petits Riens
Choreography: Ms. Turocy
Mesquite Performing Arts Center, Dallas, Texas 1999
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul, Minnesota 2005
Anchorage Symphony Orchestra Anchorage, Alaska October 2005
“Euridice”
Gluck’s Orphée et Euridice
Choreography: Ms. Turocy
The Violins of Lafayette, University of Maryland College Park 2002
"Harlequin"
Harlequin's Capers (Mouret's Chaconne and Pygmalion)
Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Choreography by Ms. Turocy and Sarah Edgar
New York State Baroque Orchestra and Les Petits Violons de Cornell
Other performances include:
Moliere’s Le Bourgeois Gentihomme, Handel’s Alcina, Arianna in Creta, and Orlando, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Charpentier’s Les Arts Florissants, Mozart’s Idomeneo, Rameau’s Pygmalion and Dardanus.
With appearances at:
Deutsches Theater, Göttingen, Germany, Teatro del Cuidad, Monterray, Mexico, The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., Centro del bella Artes, San Juan, Puerto rico, Wolf Trap Summer Festival, Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors, The Rose Theatre, and Alice Tully Hall.
Play Credits
“Isabella”
La Bôite du Chocolat
Written and directed by Nicholas Jumara
World Financial Center Winter Garden, New York City, 2004
The Hillwood Museum, Washington D.C., 2004
Prince of Haiti/King of Paris
By Kyle Siebrecht
Choreography by Ms. Turocy
Staged reading with the Florida Historical Performances, Miami, FL. 2004
The Boston Early Music Festival Guest Artist
Thesée June 2001
Jean-baptiste Lully
Director: Gilbert Blin
Choreographer: Lucy Graham
Ariadne die Shöne und Gertrue June 2003
Johann Georg Conradi
Director: Drew Minter
Choreographer: Lucy Graham
Psyché June 2007
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Director: Gilbert Blin
Choreographer: Lucy Graham
Contemporary/Modern Dance
January 2007 The Bronx Opera
Orpheus in the Underworld
The Danny Kaye Playhouse, NYC
Directed by Royston Coppenger
Choreography by Rachel List
2001- Company Rindfleisch
Director: Elke Rindfleisch
Performances include shows at Judson Church, Wallabout Studio (Factory Space), and the Joyce Soho
2000-2004 The Metropolitan Opera Ballet
Director: Diana Levy
Parsifal, The Merry Widow, Turandot, Meistersinger von Neurenberg, and Eugene Onegin
1999-2003 The Maffei Dance Company
Director: JoLea Maffei
Performances include appearances at Riverside Church, Cunningham Studio, and Jacobs Pillow
2002 The Skeleton Dance Project
Director: Trebien Pollard
Stories Told
Joyce Soho, New York City, NY