Paige Whitley-Bauguess Concert & Masterclass

Baroque Music & Dance
October 4, 2013 - 8:00pm
Old Cabell Hall
Free

The University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music presents a Performance and Master class by Paige Whitley-Bauguess on Friday, October 4th, 2013 at 8pm.  This event is free and open to the public.

This is a collaborative performance and masterclass in which Paige Whitley-Bauguess will demonstrate baroque dances (e.g. gavotte, minuet, gigue) and then coach students who are playing music in those forms.  Students performers will be pre-selected from the UVA string division studios and will play music from Bach, Leclair, Handel and others.  This should be a wonderful opportunity to see these period dances performed by a professional baroque dancer who will help bring the students' performances to life!.

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.

Definition of Baroque Dance from BaroqueDance.com

Old Cabell Hall is located on the south end of UVA's historic Lawn, directly opposite the Rotunda.  Parking is available in at the Central Grounds Parking Garage, or in the lots off University Avenue at the University Corner.  Handicapped parking is available in the C1 parking lot or in designated spaces on McCormick Avenue.

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

Address

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

Email: music@virginia.edu