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Historical
Dance Program, 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 Baroque Opera Workshop at Queens College, the
Amherst
Early Music Festival, and the Madison Early Music Festival. Murray
co-founded
and co-directed three 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. In 2010,
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. She has also taught Baroque dance at Tokai
University in
Tokyo, Japan. |