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The New York
Historical Dance Company is a group of dancers devoted to the study, recreation
and performance of dances from the fifteenth through the early twentieth
centuries. Costumed in period clothing,
the company performs social and theatrical dances from Europe and America.
The company has performed with Piffaro,
Parthenia—A Consort of Viols, Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Wake Forest
Consort, Mannes Camerata and the New Dance Group. Members of the company have also
performed at the Connecticut Early Music Festival, Wake Forest University, at SUNY Stony Brook,
in Germany, Belgium and Austria. Our ambition is to bring the joy and beauty
of these dances to modern audiences, at the same time educating them in an
important facet of the culture of past eras.
Director Dorothy
Olsson has had training in both music and dance; she received her Masters of
Music of Musicology from Manhattan School of Music and her Ph.D. in Performance
Studies at New York University, with a dissertation on early 20th-century
dance. She has presented numerous workshops, choreographies and performances of
historical dance, and written books and articles about historical dance. Dr.
Olsson was an Assistant Professor of Dance Education at New York University for
ten years.
Artistic Director
Kaspar D. Mainz has appeared in more than 250 theatrical performances in
Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. He is the Artistic Director
of Deliciae Theatrales, a group that specializes in theater, dance and music
performances for children. He has taught at Salzburg University, University of
Leipzig, Salzburg Mozarteum, and University of Graz. Mr. Mainz has offered workshops
in historical dance in Europe and the United States.
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