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Historical
Dance Program,
Faculty
Peggy Murray is
a dancer, scholar and instructor. She holds a Ph.D. in performance
studies from Ohio University's School of Interdisciplinary Arts. A
former ballet and jazz dancer, Murray is now dedicated to historical
dance. She works extensively with Renaissance and Baroque dance, and
studies the role and development of dancing in Europe and the Americas
during the colonial period. Murray has choreographed university and
professional operas, including Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
for Pegasus Early Music. She has also been a faculty member for the
Amherst and Madison Early Music Festivals. Murray co-founded and
co-directed two iterations of the Encuentro Internacional de Danzas del
Pasado, an academic conference on historical dance in Mexico City. She
has performed and taught in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Peru
and Argentina.
Dorothy Olsson received her B. M. in Music
Education, major in Bassoon, from the Crane School of Music (State
University College at Potsdam, NY), and her Master of Music in
Musicology from Manhattan School of Music. She completed her Ph.D. in
Performance Studies at New York University, with a dissertation on
early twentieth-century dance, entitled Arcadian Idylls;
Dances of Early Twentieth-Century American Pageantry. For ten
years, she was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance Education at New
York University. Dr. Olsson’s article on “Seventeenth-Century Dance”
appears in A Performer’s Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music
(ed. Stewart Carter, Schirmer Books); a second edition of this
volume was published in 2012. Dorothy is the founder and
director
of The New York
Historical Dance Company (www.newyorkhistoricaldance.com),
a group of dancers devoted to the study, recreation and performance of
dances from the fifteenth through the nineteenth 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, the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, and the New
Dance Group. Most recently, the company presented a
lecture-demonstration on Renaissance dance at The Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York City. Dr. Olsson has given numerous workshops in
historical
dance and has choreographed for the Stony Brook Opera, Folger Consort,
Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, Mannes Camerata (Mannes College of Music),
Wake Forest University and Princeton University. Dorothy has
choreographed for and/or directed several historical theatrical
productions at the Amherst Early Music Festival and at the Country
Dance and Song Society Early Music Week. Dr. Olsson has co-authored
(with Kaspar D. Mainz) seven books on historical dance. Most recently
she has taught Baroque dance at Tokai University in Tokyo, Japan.
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