Paige Whitley-Bauguess

Musician Movement Workshop
October 5, 2013 - 10:00am
Brooks Hall
Free

Paige Whitley Baugess headshotThe University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music presents a workshop by Paige Whitley-Bauguess on Saturday, October 5th, 2013 at 10am in Brooks Hall.  This workshop is free and open to all students.  During this two-hour workshop, participants will learn the basic movements and steps of baroque dance under the supervision of baroque dancer and choreographer Paige Whitley-Bauguess.

Whitley-Bauguess interprets, recreates, and performs Baroque theatre dance in venues all over the world. In addition to performances with major baroque orchestras in the US, Canada, and Japan, she has stage directed baroque operas for the Bloomington Early Music Festival, Magnolia Baroque Festival, Peabody Conservatory, and East Carolina University.

In North Carolina, Paige co-directs the Baroque Arts Project with Baroque Trumpeter and husband Barry Bauguess, and directs the New Bern Dancing Assembly, a historical social dance troupe for youth. She has also produced two Baroque Dance DVDs featuring collaborative work with dance partner Thomas Baird: introduction to Baroque Dance-Dance Types, funded in part by an NC Choreographer's Fellowship, and Dance of the French Baroque Theatre.

As a master teacher, Paige served on the faculties of the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin Conservatory, Modern Early Music Institute, East Coast Baroque Dance Workshop at Rutgers University, and Stanford Baroque Dance Workshop, and has given numerous masterclasses and lectures at universities, conservatories, and museums in Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, and the United States.
She holds an MA in Dance History from the University of California-Riverside and a BFA in Ballet from the NC School of the Arts where she also attended high school.

Although many other forms of social and theatrical dance existed in the world during the Baroque period, the term Baroque Dance is often used in reference to the French noble dance style and technique of the late 17th- and early 18th-centuries. Cultivated by the dancing masters and dance activities at the court of Louis XIV, the style greatly influenced dancing in ballrooms and theatres throughout Europe. French dancing masters were prized commodities and French dances, via dance notation, were danced all over Europe while the French dancing manuals were translated (and paraphrased) into various languages.

This event is supported by the Eleanor Shea Music Trust.

Historic Brooks Hall is on University Avenue adjacent to University of Virginia’s Rotunda and directly across the street from St. Paul’s Memorial Church and the Bank of America.

The closest parkiing is at "the Corner" across from Brooks Hall in lots on Elliewood Avenue, University Avenue, Fourteenth Street, and Wertland Street.

 

 

For more information please call the McIntire Department of Music at 434.924.3052.

Definition of Baroque Dance from Baroque Dance.

 

 

 

 

Address

UVA Department of Music
112 Old Cabell Hall
P.O. Box 400176 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4176

Email: music@virginia.edu