Baroque Dance DVDs
Introduction to Baroque Dance - Dance Types - 67 minutes - DVD Paige Whitley-Bauguess is joined by Baroque Dancer Thomas Baird and musicians of the Baroque Arts Project on period instruments for this enchanting and informative presentation including step sequences from Raoul-Auger Feuillet’s 1700 publication Chorégraphie and from specific choreographies preserved in 18th-century dance notation, descriptions of the dances found in music and dance writings from the period, discussions and examples showing music and dance rhythm relationships, performances in costume of complete social and theatrical dances reconstructed from notation to illustrate each dance type, and social dances performed in Tryon Palace, an 18th-century governor’s palace in New Bern, NC. Both Volumes on one DVD. Dance of the French Baroque Theatre - 80 minutes - DVD Acclaimed Baroque Dancers Paige Whitley-Bauguess and Thomas Baird are joined by musicians of the Baroque Arts Project on period instruments fo