Recent and
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
Historical
Dance Classes
June 28-July 5,
2025
at the Amherst
Early Music Festival
Muhlenberg College; Allentown, Pennsylvania
Dance program information
Registration--Dancer deadline June 15,
2025!:
Amherst
Early Music
Recent Events
Historical
Dance Classes
June 29-July 7,
2024
at the Amherst
Early Music Festival
Union College, Schenectady, NY
with Dorothy Olsson and Peggy Murray
Queens College Baroque Opera Workshop
June
9-15, 2024
Including performance of selected dances from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
(1689)
Dance
program directed by Dorothy Olsson
Renaissance
Dance Workshop
March 20,
2024
for the
Renaissance Society of America
Venue: Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
with Dorothy Olsson and Peggy Murray
Historical
Dance Classes
July 1-9, 2023
at the Amherst
Early Music Festival
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
with Dorothy Olsson and Peggy Murray
Queens College Baroque Opera Workshop
June
11-17, 2023
Including performance of selected dances in Purcell's The Fairy Queen
(1692)
Dance
program directed by Dorothy Olsson
Fifteenth-Century
Dance Workshop
December 3,
2022
for the
Renaissance Society of America
online dance class, with Dorothy Olsson and Peggy Murray
Historical
Dance Class
November 12,
2022
Amherst
Early Music, Weekend Online Classes
online dance class, with Dorothy Olsson and Julie Iwasa:
The Majestic Passacaille
Historical
Dance Classes
August 6-13, 2022
at the Amherst
Early Music Festival
Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA
with Dorothy Olsson, and Mark Mindek
Historical
Dance Class
March 13,
2022
Amherst
Early Music, Weekend Online Classes
online dance class, with Dorothy Olsson and Julie Iwasa:
A Cheerful Dance: The Rigaudon
Historical
Dance Class
July 22,
2021
Amherst
Early Music, Weekend Online Classes
online dance class, with Dorothy Olsson and Julie Iwasa:
Iberian Inspiration: The Folies d'Espagne and Canaries
Renaissance
Dance Workshop
May 2, 2021
for the
Renaissance Society of America
online dance class, with Dorothy Olsson and Peggy Murray
Historical
Dance Class
February 28,
2021
Amherst
Early Music, Weekend Online Classes
online dance class, with Dorothy Olsson and Peggy Murray:
Dancing our Way through Terpsichore
Historical
Dance Class
January 16, 2021
at the
Amherst
Early Music Winter Weekend Workshop
online dance
class, with Dorothy Olsson and Julie Iwasa:
The Elegant Menuet
Historical
Dance Classes
at the Amherst
Early Music Festival
July 4-12, 2020--postponed (due to COVID -19)
online dance classes, with Dorothy Olsson and Julie Iwasa:
May 16, 2020: La Belle Danse, An Introduction to French Baroque Dance
and its Music
July 6, 2020: La Belle Danse 2, French Baroque Dance and its Music
[July 4-12, 2020 festival at Connecticut College postponed due to COVID -19]
Queens College Baroque Opera Workshop
June
14-20, 2020--postponed
(due to COVID -19)
Historical
Dance Classes
January 17-20, 2020
Dance Faculty: Kaspar D. Mainz, Dorothy Olsson
at the
Amherst
Early Music Winter Weekend Workshop
Philadelphia,
PA
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
May
19, 2019 (Sunday); 1:00 - 2:30 pm
at The
Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
New York, NY 10025
Historical
Dance Classes
July 13-21, 2019
at the Amherst
Early Music Festival
Connecticut College, New
London, CT
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
April
13, 2019 at The
Bridge for Dance
Baroque
Dance Workshop
Lafayette College (Easton PA)
Taught by
Kaspar Mainz & Dorothy Olsson
February
22, 2019
This workshop accompanied the concert by Jordi Savall and Le Concert
des Nations concert,
"Tous les Matins du Monde," February 23, 2019
Baroque
Dance Workshop
Temple University (Philadelphia PA)
Taught by Kaspar
Mainz & Dorothy Olsson
February
22, 2019
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
February
10, 2019 at The
Bridge for Dance
Historical
Dance Classes
January 18-21, 2019
at the
Amherst
Early Music Winter Weekend Workshop
Philadelphia,
PA
"Rethinking Bach:
An International Performers' Workshop"
August
21-26, 2018 at Tokai
University, Shonan Campus, Japan
Director: Raymond Erickson
Dance
faculty: Dorothy Olsson
Queens College Baroque Opera Workshop
June
17-23, 2018
Including performance of selected dances, and pieces from Monteverdi's
L'Orfeo (1607)
Renaissance
dance program directed by Dorothy Olsson
Historical
Dance Classes
January 12-15, 2018
at the
Amherst
Early Music Winter Weekend Workshop
Philadelphia,
PA
"Rethinking Bach:
A Performer's Workshop"
August
22-27, 2017 at Tokai
University, Japan
Dance
faculty: Kaspar D. Mainz
Historical
Dance Classes
July 8-16, 2017
at the Amherst
Early Music Festival
Connecticut College, New
London, CT
Queens College Baroque Opera Workshop
June
18-24, 2017
Including performance of Cavalli's L'Ercole Amante (1662) with
intermèdes by J.B. Lully
Baroque
dance program directed by Dorothy Olsson
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
April
23, 2017 at The
Bridge for Dance
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
March
26, 2017 at The
Bridge for Dance
Historical
Dance Classes
January 13-16, 2017
at the
Amherst
Early Music Winter Weekend Workshop
Baroque
Dance Workshops in NYC
October
9, 2016; November 6, 2016; November
13, 2016
at The
Bridge for Dance
"Rethinking Bach:
A Performer's Workshop"
August
9-14, 2016, Tokai
University, Japan
Director: Raymond Erickson; Dance
faculty: Dorothy
Olsson
Historical
Dance Classes
July 9-17, 2016
at the Amherst
Early Music Festival
Connecticut College, New
London, CT
Queens
College Baroque Opera Workshop
June
12-18, 2016; Lully's Le Carnaval Mascarade (1675)
Baroque
dance program directed by Dorothy Olsson
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
May
15, 2016; at The Bridge for Dance
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
April
3, 2016; at The
Bridge for Dance
Historical
Dance Classes
January 15-18, 2016
at the
Amherst
Early Music Winter Weekend Workshop
Philadelphia,
PA
Renaissance
Dance Workshop in NYC
December
6, 2015; at The
Bridge for Dance
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
November
15, 2015; at The
Bridge for Dance
"Rethinking Bach:
A Performer's Workshop"
September 8-13, 2015
Tokai
University, Japan
Director: Raymond Erickson
Dance
faculty: Dorothy
Olsson
Historical
Dance Classes
July 4-12, 2015
at the Amherst
Early Music Festival
Connecticut College, New
London, CT
Dance Faculty: Kaspar D. Mainz, Peggy Murray, Dorothy Olsson
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
"La
Conty"
June 7, 2015; at The
Bridge for Dance, NYC
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
May 3,
2015; at The
Bridge for Dance, NYC
Renaissance Dance
Workshop
April 15, 2015
Queens College, Aaron Copland School of Music
Queens, NY
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
"La
Contredance"
March 15, 2015; at The
Bridge for Dance, NYC
Historical
Dance Classes
January 16-19, 2015
at the Amherst
Early Music Winter Weekend Workshop
Philadelphia,
PA
Renaissance
and Baroque Dance Workshops
September 30, 2014
Queens College, Aaron Copland School of Music
Queens, NY
"Shakespeare's
450th"
October 4, 2014
Bryn
Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Music by Piffaro; Stage Direction by Jim Christy
Dancing
led by Dorothy
Olsson
"Rethinking Bach:
A Performer's Workshop"
August 19-24, 2014
Tokai
University, Japan
Director: Raymond Erickson
Dance
faculty: Dorothy
Olsson
Historical
Dance Classes
July 5-13, 2014
at the Amherst
Early Music Festival, New
London, CT
Dance
Faculty:
Kaspar D.
Mainz, Peggy Murray, Dorothy
Olsson
"A Night
in Madrid"
Spanish Baroque music and dance, with
Lawrence Baroque Ensemble
at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
May 17, 2014
"Capricci
ed Inventioni of the Italian Renaissance"
Italian
Renaissance music and dance, with
members Musica Alta and guests
at The Princeton University Art Museum
April
11, 2014
Historical
Dance Classes
January 17-20, 2014
at the Amherst
Early Music Winter Weekend Workshop
Philadelphia,
PA
Dance Faculty: Dorothy
Olsson, Peggy Murray
"Music
and Dance of the Italian Renaissance"
Performances
with members of Early Music New York
at The New York Botanical Garden
May 18
-
September 8, 2013
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
"La
Duchesse"
September 22, 2013; 3:00-5:00 p.m.
at The
Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
New York, NY 10025
Performing
Bach in Baroque Style
August 5-10, 2013
Queens
College, City University of New York
Director: Raymond Erickson
Dance
faculty: Dorothy
Olsson
Historical
Dance Classes
July 6-14, 2013
at the Amherst
Early Music Festival
New
London, CT
Dance
Faculty: Kaspar D.
Mainz, Dorothy
Olsson
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
"The
Princess Passpie"
April 28, 2013; 1:00-3:00 p.m.
at The
Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
New York, NY 10025
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
"Minuet
& Jigg"
March 24, 2013; 1:00-3:00 p.m.
at The
Bridge for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
New York, NY 10025
Lazzi
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dorothy
Olsson
and Mark
Mindek,
will perform their commedia dell'arte piece, "Lazzi
d'Amore"
February 24, 2013
Historical
Dance Classes
January 18-21, 2013
at the Amherst
Early Music Winter Weekend Workshop
Philadelphia,
PA
Dance
Faculty: Dorothy
Olsson, Peggy Murray
"A
Renaissance Celebration of Christmas"
December 15, 2012
(with Bacheler Consort)
Historic
Milford Theatre
Milford, PA
"Renaissance
Revels"
A theatrical program for children
October 14, 2012
(with Kaspar D. Mainz and Christopher Morrongiello)
Bethel Woods
Performing Arts Center
Bethel, NY
Terpsichore's
Fancy,
Renaissance and Baroque Dance Workshop
Taught
by Kaspar D. Mainz (from Germany), Dorothy
Olsson
October 7, 2012, White
Plains, NY
sponsored by
Country Dancers of Westchester
Baroque
Dance Workshop
October 4, 2012
(with Kaspar D. Mainz)
Opera
Theatre, Yale University
New Haven, CT
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
"La
Gaillarde"
September 30, 2012; 12:00-2:00 p.m.
(with Kaspar D. Mainz, from Germany!)
at The Bridge
for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
New York, NY 10025
"Music
of the Baroque"
September 23, 2012
Baroque dance performance and workshop,
by Kaspar D.
Mainz & Dorothy
Olsson,
with Moravian College Department of Music Faculty,
Moravian
College, Bethlehem, PA
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
Performing
Bach in Baroque Style
August 6-11, 2012
Queens
College, City University of New York
Director: Raymond Erickson
Dance
faculty: Dorothy
Olsson
Early
Music Week
Country Dance & Song Society,
Pinewoods Camp, Plymouth, MA
Dorothy Olsson, Historical dance faculty
August 11-18, 2012
Baroque
Dance Workshop in NYC
"Aimable
Vainqueur"
June 24, 2012; 5:00-7:00 p.m.
(with Kaspar D. Mainz, from Germany!)
at The Bridge
for Dance
2726 Broadway, Third Floor
New York, NY 10025
"Il
Ballo delle Ingrate" (Monteverdi)
Performance with
Musica Nuova
June
3, 2012; 6:30 pm
Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
"engaging performance," NY Times, June 4, 2012
"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
"Between
Heaven and Earth"
Performance with
Musica Nuova
March 20, 2012; 8:00 pm
Church of St. Mary the Virgin,
New York, NY
"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
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