2022

 

2021 Online Baroque Dance Zoom continues! 

 

2020

 

December 2020 Musica Angelica Video/Education Project: Link to Video

 

April 2020: I began to teach a weekly Baroque Dance Class for free/charity. Folks from around the world joined me weekly to have a much need respite from the Covid pandemic. I taught from April 2020 until May 2021 without a break!

 

2019

 

Sunday November 10th Those Secret Eyes/Mertz Trio

Flynn Center, Burlington, VT

An original production by Merz Trio featuring dance soloist Caroline Copeland and lighting design by Neil Creedon. Text, dance, and lighting is interwoven with music by Brahms, Schumann, Verdi, Johannes Maria Staud, and Charlotte Bray

 

Saturday October 26th Those Secret Eyes/Mertz Trio

New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA

An original production by Merz Trio featuring dance soloist Caroline Copeland and lighting design by Neil Creedon. Text, dance, and lighting is interwoven with music by Brahms, Schumann, Verdi, Johannes Maria Staud, and Charlotte Bray

 

July 7-13 International Summer Academy 2019   Löftadalen Conservatory, Åsa, Sweden

Advanced/Professional Levels

 

Main course advanced and professional level, yoga, dance conditioning, stretch/massage, improvisation, composition, Cramér composition analysis and baroque dance notation. 

 

Teachers: Béatrice Massin, Caroline Copeland, Ottilia Bergström, Sofia Barkevall, Lena Cederwall Broberg and Karin Modigh.

 

For More Information: Löftadalen Conservatory

 

June 20-23 The Mystic Fountain: A legacy of expressive gesture embodied from the Baroque to Denishawn

 

What do early modern dance and early ballet have in common? The expressive body, of course! 

In our American legacy, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, and Ted Shawn explored the expressive body in a surprisingly similar fashion as their baroque counterparts, John Weaver, Marie Sallé, and Jean-Georges Noverre. Their commonality lie in a study of expressive gesture and a tradition of teaching that goes back to the Greco-Roman aesthetic. What was their aim? Truth. Beauty. Persuasion.

 

For More Information: NYBDC Weekend Workshop

 

Tuesday April 2 Catherine Turocy presents a lecture/demonstration with dancers of the NYBDC at the Maison Francaise, NYU.

 

Tuesday March 19  Nights at Sceaux.  Moody Performance Hall, Dallas TX 

The Dallas Bach Society and The New York Baroque Dance Company 

For More Information: Dallas Bach Society

 

Friday February 9th    La Joie de la Danse/Capital Early Music

Saint George’s Episcopal Church

915 N. Oakland St. | Arlington, VA

 

Dances and Music from the courts, ballrooms and theatres of 18th century France And England

Choreography and Performance by Caroline Copeland

For More Information: Capital Early Music

 

 

 

 

 

2018

 

 

April 5th

 La Maison Francaise, NYU    Music and Dance at the Court of Versailles (Performer)

 

 April 19-22nd @ Hofstra University

 Premiere of a new work for the Hofstra Dance Department titled, Figure Dances.

 This piece is for 10 dancers and is steeped in baroque research but contemporary in  appearance. 

 

 June 27th

 Pianoforia:  Master Class for Musicians

 

 July 14th
 The New York Baroque Dance Company @ The Hillwood Museum and Gardens French Festival

 

 For Tickets and More Information: Hillwood French Festival

 

November 9, Fridays at Noon at the 92nd Street Y

Lecture/Demonstration titled, "Cosmic Catalyst" with Catherine Turocy and The New York Baroque Dance Company.

 

Friday December 9th  Mertz Trio's Those Secret Eyes

An original production by Merz Trio featuring dance soloist Caroline Copeland and lighting design by Neil Creedon. Text, dance, and lighting is interwoven with music by Brahms, Schumann, Verdi, Johannes Maria Staud, and Charlotte Bray.  https://www.merztrio.com/work#/macbeth-2/

 

2017

DECEMBER NY Baroque Incorporated @ The Metropolitan Museum of Arts (Guest Performer)

 

NOVEMBER Master Class at Rutgers University, Baroque Dance Forms for Musicians

 

JULY  The New York Baroque Dance Company at the Hillwood Gardens and Museum

 

JUNE The Boston Early Music Festival
André Campra's 1699 Ballet Le Carnaval de Venise (Feature Performer and Choreographer) 
The Emerson Cutler Theatre, Boston, MA
AND
Pergolesi's La serva padrona & Livietta e Tracolla (Reviving my role as "Fulvia")
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA

JUNE 24th and 25th BEMF CHAMBER OPERA SERIES/The Boston Early Music Festival
Pergolesi's La serva padrona & Livietta e Tracolla (Reviving my role as "Fulvia"

The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA

 

April RAMEAU'S LE TEMPLE DE GLOIRE @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA
Nicholas McGegan, Conductor
Catherine Turocy, Stage Director and Choreography
Scott Blake, Set Design
Marie Anne Chiment, Costume Design
Pierre Dupouey, Lighting Design
Dancers: The New York Baroque Dance Company
 

Saturday February 13th @2pm at the Bric House Stoop in Brooklyn

I will join The Knights for a Family Day event at the Bric House Stoop in Brooklyn. They will perform dance repertoire from Beethoven to Spanish folk music, including Rebel's "Les caractères de la dance".

Thursday March 17th @ The Theatre at St. Clements, NYC

Beyond its two mainstage productions, Heartbeat Opera introduces its new series - three nights of collaborative-lab-cabaret, offering audiences a sneak peek into future projects and celebrating Heartbeat's ever-blossoming community of artists. I will revisit a solo work I premiered this past November with the wonderful musicians from Cantata Profana!


Sunday April 10th @ The Jay Heritage Center, Rye NY 

Arts & Letters of our Founding Fathers; Music, song, dance, and letters from America's Founding Fathers, presented in historical spaces.

Drawing from the vast music library of Thomas Jefferson, with dance and song known to George Washington, Arts & Letters concerts bring history to life, tying historical spaces to the arts and culture of the era. Reflecting the world of Governor John Jay, the program includes music of internationally popular musicians of his day, Johann Christian Bach, Luigi Boccherini, and American composer Francis Hopkinson, with dramatic readings from letters and journal entries to set the scene, enhanced by re-creations of historical social dances of the era, featuring dancers in period costume to further illuminate the social culture of Colonial life.

Featuring Grant Herreid, instrumentalist, singer and narrator, with Leah Nelson on Baroque violin, and early keyboard specialist Dongsok Shin on harpsichord, this program is a collaboration with the New York Baroque Dance Company's Touchstone Project, Caroline Copeland and Matthew Ting, Baroque dancers.


Tuesday April 12th @7:30pm Alice Tully Hall, NYC
 

Terpsichore: A Baroque Dance Mix
Juilliard Historical Performance director Robert Mealy leads Juilliard415 in a collaboration with Baroque dancers, Caroline Copeland, Carlos Fittante, Alexis Silver and Andrew Trego, showcasing dance suites of the Baroque era and featuring new choreography by Caroline Copeland and Carlos Fittante and Juilliard dancers.


Saturday June 18th @ The Jay Heritage Center, Rye NY - NY Paths Through History Event

Arts & Letters of our Founding Fathers; Music, song, dance, and letters from America's Founding Fathers, presented in historical spaces.

Drawing from the vast music library of Thomas Jefferson, with dance and song known to George Washington, Arts & Letters concerts bring history to life, tying historical spaces to the arts and culture of the era. Reflecting the world of Governor John Jay, the program includes music of internationally popular musicians of his day, Johann Christian Bach, Luigi Boccherini, and American composer Francis Hopkinson, with dramatic readings from letters and journal entries to set the scene, enhanced by re-creations of historical social dances of the era, featuring dancers in period costume to further illuminate the social culture of Colonial life.

Featuring Grant Herreid, instrumentalist, singer and narrator, with Leah Nelson on Baroque violin, and early keyboard specialist Dongsok Shin on harpsichord, this program is a collaboration with the New York Baroque Dance Company's Touchstone Project, Caroline Copeland and Matthew Ting, Baroque dancers.



July 9th @ THE HILLWOOD MUSEUM AND GARDENS, WASHINGTON DC

THE NEW YORK BAROQUE DANCE COMPANY in Fêtes Champêtres, a new ballet-pantomime choreographed by Caroline Copeland and performed by Ms. Copeland, Meggi Sweeney Smith, Matthew Ting, and Andrew Trego.

MASTER CLASSES

Wednesday February 24th, Gallatin, NYU- Late 18th and Early 19th Century Social Dances of Europe and the United States

Tuesday March 8th, Parsons School of Design- The Minuet: Dance and Etiquette in Motion

Wednesday March 23rd, The University of Delaware's Fulbright Society- Baroque Music and Dance/Performed and Practiced

Monday April 18th, Ensemble ACJW (The Academy – a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute)- Baroque Music and Dance Forms/ Performed and Practiced

Choreography/Direction/Performing

March 2015: Les Caracteres de la Danse: A baroque repertoire performance with Brooklyn Baroque at the Hoff-Barthelson Music School (director/choreographer/performer)

May 12th and 13th: Convention/Invention Performing Arts Center Bessie Schonberg Dance Studio 7:30pm - 8:30pm

I am currently in residence at Sarah Lawrence College and creating a new baroque-inspired work on the undergraduate and graduate students.

June 7-14th, 2015 Boston Early Music Festival:

- Monteverdi's Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria Assistant Director to Gilbert Blin and Choreographer

- Invention of Delight: Dance music from the courts of the early 17th century  Performer/Choreographer

- Late-Renaissance Dance Workshops on June 11th- Teacher

July 11th, 2015 NYBDC/The Hillwood Museum, Washington D.C.

I created a new pantomime for The French Festival at the beautiful Hillwood Museum and Gardens.

For More Information: Hillwood Museum

August 2015: Innsbruck Early Music Festival, Austria

Lully's Armide 

Music Direction: Patrick Cohën-Akenine with Les Folies Françoises

Stage Direction and Choreography: Deda Cristina Colonna

Dancers: Nordic Baroque Dancers

Innsbruck Early Music Festival

October 9th, 2015: NYBDC/Touchstone Project: Spend an evening at the Kings Manor in Queens, NY with Leah Nelson and Donsok Shin, performing late 18th and early 19th c. repertoire on violin and piano forte. Grant Herreid will narrate letters from the Founding Fathers and Matthew Ting and Caroline Copeland of the New York Baroque Dance Company will perform dances popular in the Colonial American ballroom!

Visit their website for more information: Kings Manor Museum

Saturday November 21st: Cantata Profana at the MainStage 2 New Haven, CT

From the frou-frou of Poulenc's raucous and irreverant Bal Masqué to the tristesse of Louis-Nicolas Clerambault's savagely dramatic solo cantata Médée, CP takes to its feet for a rousing celebration of the great French esprit, joined by the uniquely stunning baroque and modern dance soloist Caroline Copeland. Our first dance collaboration!

Featuring Jessica Petrus, Kristin Gornstein, Kyle Erdos-Knapp, John Taylor Ward

Sunday November 22nd: Cantata Profana at Dixon Place NYC

From the frou-frou of Poulenc's raucous and irreverant Bal Masqué to the tristesse of Louis-Nicolas Clerambault's savagely dramatic solo cantata Médée, CP takes to its feet for a rousing celebration of the great French esprit, joined by the uniquely stunning baroque and modern dance soloist Caroline Copeland. Our first dance collaboration!

Featuring Jessica Petrus, Kristin Gornstein, Kyle Erdos-Knapp, John Taylor Ward

For More Information: Cantata Profana

Film

Banished, a film project on the lacivisious sarabande. A film by Deirdre Towers.

Performance

October 2014: Rameau's Les Fetes des l'Hymen and l'Amour with NYBDC and Opera Lafayette

November 2014: Pergolisi's Livietta e Tracollo and Serva Padrona with the Boston Early Music Festival

Guest Lecturer/Performance

November 2014: Rutgers: Invited Lecturer and Performer of Baroque Repertoire and Contemporary Solo work

Choreography/Direction/Performing

March 2014: Consort of Viols/Waldorf Music School/Solo Choreographer and Performer

November 2014: Four Nations Ensemble/Kaatsbaan/Choreographer and Performer with Carlos Fittante

May 2014: Leah Nelson/Clerembault Concert with Carlos Fittante

July 2014: NYBDC Hillwood Mansion: Ces Petits Riens: A Dance Play based on the reputation and teachings of the 18th century dancing master, M. Marcel: Director/Writer/Performer

2012

February 2012: Empress of Pleasure: An evening of music and dance with music from Boyce, Dittersdorf, and JC Bach/Simon Murphy and The New Dutch Academy in Den Haag/Choreographer and Dancer

Here are links to the performance on YouTube:

Empress of Pleasure/Boyce Symphony no. 2 in A

Carls Dittersdorf/Ovid Symphony