Catherine Turocy co-founded
The New York Baroque Dance Company The New York Baroque Dance Company is a professional American dance company located in New York City. It was founded in 1976 (incorporated 1979) by Artistic Director Catherine Turocy and Ann Jacoby. With a mission to recreate and preserve the full ...
in 1976, with Ann Jacoby. The NYBDC is dedicated to reconstructing
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
dances. Catherine Turocy studied
historical dance
Historical dance (or early dance) is a term covering a wide variety of Western European-based dance types from the past as they are danced in the present. Today historical dances are danced as performance, for pleasure at themed balls or dance clu ...
under Ohio State teacher, Shirley Wynne. She has reconstructed and choreographed “over 300 dances and 60 opera-ballets”
including numerous
Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau (; – ) was a French composer and music theorist. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera an ...
operas, including Les Boréades. She has worked ten years at the Handel Festival in Goettingen, Germany. She has toured the world and made numerous dance videos. As director of the New York Baroque Dance Company, she presents reconstructions of 17th- and 18th-century dances, often in collaboration with Concert Royal, a musical group directed by James Richman that uses
period instruments
In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic ...
."
HONORS, GRANTS, AWARDS:
2018-2019 Center for Ballet and the Arts Residency Fellowship in NYC (affiliated with NYU)
Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Best Re-staging and Reconstruction 2018 (Le Temple de la Gloire, Rameau)
Best of the Bay, top prize for Choreography 2017 (Le Temple de la Gloire, Rameau)
Best of the Bay, top prize for Opera 2017 (Le Temple de la Gloire, Rameau)
Bachtrack (International) Award for Best Opera photo (stage director) 2017 (Le Temple de la Gloire, Rameau)
Artist/Lecturer in residence at Dance New Amsterdam 2013
CMRS Visiting Distinguished Scholar (UCLA) 2013
Natalie Skelton Award for Sustained Artistic Excellence, 2008
BESSIE Award for Sustained Achievement in Choreography, 2001
Getty Scholar, 1997
Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters, decorated by the French government, 1995
Prix Claude Rostand (French prize given by the critics for the best lyric opera of the year, 1986 Scylla et Glaucus)
Chosen as one of the top choreographers in New York City to be documented as part of the
National Dance Heritage Project at the Library of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center since 1980
National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships: 1980, 1983, 1984,
1986-88, 1990, 1994-6, 1996-97, when this category disappeared from the NEA.
NEA Heritage and Preservation Grants 1997-2016
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1990
US-France Exchange Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1987
Jerome Foundation Award for Choreographic Creation, 1985
USA-UK Exchange Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1980-81
Dance Film Award, for the creation of the video, The Art of Dancing: An
Introduction to Baroque Dance, 1979
Ohio State University Scholarship, 1970-74; Women’s Club of Orange Village, 1970-72
Member of Alpha Lambda Delta (Academic Honor Society, 1970-74)
The New York Baroque Dance Company
The New York Baroque Dance Company produces "historically accurate" performances and also "reinterprets Baroque choreography." More than thirty opera productions have been commissioned for the NYBDC around the world.
Productions include period costumes and masks. The NYBDC offers classes. The New York Public Library put on an exhibition, The New Baroque: Early Dance Re-creations and Inspirations in 1997 in honor of the NYBDC's 20th anniversary.
References
External links
New York Baroque Dance Company's homepage* https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/arts/dance/catherine-turocys-lessons-unlock-early-musics-meaning.html
* http://www.operaconbrio.com/teseo.pdf
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American female dancers
Dancers from New York (state)
American choreographers
Living people
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Bessie Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women