Featuring:

Lieven Baert

    Renaissance Dance

Catherine Turocy

    Baroque Dance

Richard Powers

    19th and 20th Centuries

Sandra Noll Hammond

    Historical Ballet

Joan Walton

    19th and 20th Centuries

      Full Bios are here.

The setting:

Simultaneous classes will take place in three adjacent dance studios at Stanford University's Dance Division, (map) including one of the largest sprung wooden dance floors in Northern California.

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Early Renaissance Dance
  Late Renaissance Dance
    Baroque Dance
      19th Century Dance
        Historical Ballet
          Ragtime Era Dance
             Jazz Age Dance

               June 20-25, 2010
           Six Centuries of Dance

A total immersion in historical dance from the 15th through 20th centuries.

Classes will cover both social and theatrical dance forms, and will draw an intersection of professional, academic and social dancers.  In addition, the week offers a comprehensive track of the essential dances from each era — including etiquette and deportment — for educators who wish to teach a comprehensive course in historic dance, or those wanting a thorough introduction to a new era of historic dance.

Each instructor will be teaching several classes each day, with multiple topics from their eras of expertise.  This will enable those who want to specialize in an era to take an entire week of one genre, like all 19th-20th century vintage dances, all ballet technique, or all Renaissance and Baroque.  Or one can collect dances from all six centuries.

       

THE SCHEDULE:  After a Sunday night welcoming dance with live music by the Brassworks Band, classes and seminars will be held Monday through Friday from 9 am to 5 pm with lunch breaks.  Most evenings will feature dances and dance concerts, concluding with a Friday evening Bal Blanc.
See the full schedule here.

This week will immediately follow the June 18-20 Stanford Waltz Weekend held in the same studios.

HOUSING:  The on-campus dorm is a five minute walk from the Roble dance studios.  All housing information is here.

TUITION:  $350, which includes all classes, seminars and evening events.  There is a $50 discount for those taking both the Waltz Weekend and Historical Dance Week.
The low tuition is made possible by support from the
Friends of Dance at Stanford.


Click here to REGISTER for the Historical Dance Week.

       

Co-sponsored by the Stanford University Dance Division and
The New York Baroque Dance Company.




The dances:


Pavan, Galliard,
Basse Danse, Ballo,
Branles, La Volta,
Sword Dances.

Menuet, Passepied,
Bourrée, Sarabande,
Gavotte, Forlana,
Courante, Musette.

Regency Era Waltz,
1802 Congo Minuet,
Beveridge's Maggot,
1820 Scotch Reel.

Early 19th Century
ballet of Blasis,
Théleur, St. Léon,
Adice and D'Egville.

19th C Waltz, Polka, Schottische, Galop,
Mazurka, Polonaise,
Redowa, Quadrilles.

Tango, One-Step,
Cake Walk, Maxixe,
Fox Trot, Hesitation
Waltz, Half & Half.

Texas Tommy,
Charleston, Shag,
Peabody, Collegiate,
Blues, 1950s Bop,
1970s Disco.