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The
New York
Historical Dance Company is a group of dancers devoted to the study,
recreation
and performance of dances from the fifteenth through the early
twentieth
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, Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Wake
Forest
Consort, Mannes Camerata and the New Dance Group. Members of the
company have also performed at the Connecticut Early Music Festival,
Wake Forest University, at SUNY Stony Brook, in Germany, Belgium and
Austria. Our ambition is to bring the joy and beauty
of these dances to modern audiences, at the same time educating them in
an
important facet of the culture of past eras.
Director Dorothy
Olsson has had training in both music and dance; she received her
Masters of
Music of Musicology from Manhattan School of Music and her Ph.D. in
Performance
Studies at New York University, with a dissertation on early 20th-century
dance. She has presented numerous workshops, choreographies and
performances of
historical dance, and written books and articles about historical
dance. Dr.
Olsson was an Assistant Professor of Dance Education at New York
University for
ten years.
Artistic Director
Kaspar D. Mainz has appeared in more than 600 theatrical performances
in
Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. He is the
Artistic Director
of Deliciae Theatrales, a group that specializes in theater, dance and
music
performances for children. He has taught at Salzburg University,
University of
Leipzig, Salzburg Mozarteum, and University of Graz. Mr. Mainz has
offered workshops
in historical dance in Europe and the United States. Mr. Mainz was a
contributing author on dance in the new leading publication for music
pedagogy: Dreiklang. Musik 5/6 (edited by Dr. Georg Maas and
Dr. Ines
Mainz), published in 2009 by Cornelsen Verlag, Berlin.
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