Recent and Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
"Music and Dance of the Renaissance"
Performance with Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
February 18, 2012; 8:00 pm
Gretna
Music at Elizabethtown College
Elizabethtown,
PA
"Mary's
Fancy Ball"
[Workshops in early 19th-century dance]
For the New York Public Library, Mary Shelley
exhibit,
"Shelley's Ghost: The Afterlife of a Poet Exhibition"
February
25, 2012, 2:00 pm,
St. Agnes Library
March
10, 2012, 2:00 pm,
Webster Library
March
29, 2012, 6:00 pm,
Webster Library
April
28, 2012, 2:00 pm, Richmondtown Library
Historical
Dance Program
July 7-15, 2012
at the Amherst
Early Music Festival
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Dance Faculty: Kaspar D.
Mainz, Dorothy
Olsson
Preliminary information
Recent Events
So
You Think You Can Dance?
Interactive program for families at The Family Benefit,
"Gods & Goddesses, An Evening of Myth and
Mystery"
February 6, 2012
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
"Folias
& Diferencias:
Music & Dance from Spain's Golden Age"
Three
performances, with Musicians
at the Spanish Gate
January 18, 2012; 6:30 pm: Queens Library, Flushing NY
January
19, 2012; 7:30 pm: St. Mark's, Islip NY
January 22, 2012; 2:00 pm: Rockville Centre
Library, Rockville Centre NY
A
Renaissance & Baroque
Dance Workshop
January 17, 2012
Moravian College, Bethlehem,
PA
Historical
Dance Classes
January 13-16, 2012
at the Amherst
Early Music Winter Weekend Workshop
Philadelphia, PA
Renaissance
and Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
January 8, 2012; 4:00-6:00 p.m.
(with Kaspar D. Mainz, from Germany!)
at The Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
New York, NY 10025
Baroque
Dance Workshops in NYC
October 9, 2011; 4:00-6:00 p.m. & November
13, 2011; 4:00-6:00 p.m.
at The Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
New York, NY 10025
"Spanish
Music and Dance"
A Performance with Early Music New York
September 24, 2011, 12:30 pm
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City):
ˇFiesta! Celebrating Hispanic and Latin American Cultures.
This
event is a project of the Early Music Foundation.
Two
Performances with the Venere Lute Quartet
Dancing
to the Poetry of Music
July 29, 2011 (Cinema Arts Centre)
July 30, 2011 (St. Mark's)
Renaissance
and Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
July 24,
2011; 12:00-2:00 p.m. (with Kaspar D. Mainz!)
at The Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
New York, NY 10025
Historical
Dance Classes
July 9-17, 2011
at the Amherst
Early Music Festival
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Dance Faculty: Kaspar D.
Mainz, Dorothy
Olsson
Performing
Bach in Baroque Style
June 26-July 2, 2011
Queens
College, City University of New York
Director: Raymond Erickson
Dance faculty: Dorothy
Olsson
Institute
for 17th-Century Music at Queens College:
Baroque Opera Workshop
June 19 - 25, 2011
Queens
College, City University of New York
Directors: David Ronis, Christa Patton
Dance faculty: Dorothy
Olsson
Two
Baroque
Dance Workshops in NYC
May 1, 2011; 11:00
a.m. - 1:00 p.m.;
May 15, 2011; 12:30-2:30 p.m.
at The Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
(between 104th and 105th Streets)
New York, NY 10025
Baroque
Dance Workshop
April 17, 2011; 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
at The Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
(between 104th and 105th Streets)
New York, NY 10025
Historical
Dance Classes
January 14-17, 2011
Philadelphia, PA
at the Amherst
Early Music
Winter Weekend Workshop
Dance Faculty: Dorothy
Olsson, Peggy Murray
Piffaro:
The Royal's Baptism & Ballet
25th Anniversary Concert
NYHDC with Piffaro, Parthenia, and Blue Heron Renaissance
Choir
October 23-24, 2010
Philadelphia, PA
"Any concert that features their work [the New York
Historical Dance Company]
must be considered a don't miss event."
The Broad Street Review, Philadelphia
Two
Baroque
Dance Workshops
October 3, 2010; 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. &
October 17, 2010; 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
at The Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
(between 104th and 105th Streets)
New York, NY 10025
Lazzi
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dorothy Olsson and Mark
Mindek
performed their commedia dell'arte piece, "Lazzi
d'Amore"
July 25, 2010
Early
Music Week
Country Dance & Song Society,
Pinewoods Camp, Plymouth, MA
Dorothy Olsson
taught Renaissance dance
August 14-21, 2010
Historical
Dance Workshop
Amherst Early Music Festival
July 10-18, 2010
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Dance Faculty: Kaspar D. Mainz, Dorothy Olsson
Baroque
Dance Workshop
taught by Kaspar D. Mainz (from Germany),
and Dorothy Olsson
June 27, 2010; 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
at The Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
(between 104th and 105th Streets)
New York, NY 10025
Baroque
Dance Workshop
taught by Dorothy Olsson
June 6, 2010; 1:00-3:00 p.m.
at The Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
(between 104th and 105th Streets)
New York, NY 10025
Baroque
Dance Workshop
taught by Dorothy Olsson
May 16, 2010; 1:00-3:00 p.m.
at The Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
(between 104th and 105th Streets)
New York, NY 10025
Baroque
Dance Workshop
taught by Dorothy Olsson
April 25, 2010; 1:30-3:30 p.m.
at The Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
(between 104th and 105th Streets)
New York, NY 10025
"The
Jigge Is Up: Dance in Shakespeare's
Time"
Lecture-Demonstration
with
Flying Forms, an instrumental ensemble
March 13, 2010, 10:00 am
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
This event was part of the series "Early Music Exposed,"
organized by New York Early Music Central (NYEMC),
a project of the Early Music Foundation.
New York Times: "lively and kaleidoscopic"
Baroque Dance Workshop
taught by Kaspar D. Mainz and Dorothy Olsson
March 7, 2010; 2:30-4:30 p.m.
at The Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
(between 104th and 105th Streets)
New York, NY 10025
Baroque
Dance Classes
January 15-18, 2010
Philadelphia, PA
at the Amherst
Early Music
Winter Weekend Workshop
Dance Faculty: Kaspar D. Mainz, Dorothy Olsson
Renaissance
Dance Program
With the Bacheler Consort
For the Chinese Delegation
Electrical Industry Center
January 4, 2010
Flushing, NY
A
Historical Costume Ball
A Celebration of Hingham's 375th Birthday
Dances of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Old Ship Parish Hall
November 14, 2009
Hingham, MA
Flying
Forms
Performance of "Lazzi d'Amore, or
The Dalliances of Harlequino and Columbina"
with Flying Forms
September 12, 2009
Symphony Space, New York NY
Historical
Dance Workshop
Amherst Early Music Festival
July 11-19, 2009
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Dance Faculty: Kaspar D. Mainz, Dorothy Olsson
Peggy Murray, Dance Assistant
Renaissance
Dance Classes
Dance Faculty: Dorothy Olsson
Early Music Week at Pinewoods
August 15 - 22, 2009
at Pinewoods Camp, Plymouth, MA
Historical
Dance Workshop
Amherst Early Music Festival
July 11-19, 2009
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Dance Faculty: Kaspar D. Mainz, Dorothy Olsson
Historical
Dance Workshop
Amherst Early Music
Memorial Day Weekend Workshop
Friday, May 22 to Monday, May 25, 2009
at Circle Lodge, Hopewell Junction, NY
Dance Faculty: Dorothy Olsson