Moving Through Time: Baroque Dances Old and New Tickets

Juilliard415
Robert Mealy, Director
With students from Juilliard Dance and baroque dancers

Jean-Féry REBEL "Les Élemens"
REBEL "Les caractères de la danse"
John BLOW Suite from "Venus and Adonis"
Jean-Philippe RAMEAU Suite from "Naïs"

We bring together different worlds of dance with this program: Aaron Loux, an alum of the Juilliard dance program, is creating a new choreography with current Juilliard dancers based on a suite from Rameau’s "Naïs" of 1749. And four Baroque dancers, under the direction of dancer/choreographer Caroline Copeland, will perform new Baroque choreographies to Jean-Féry Rebel’s "Les caractères de la danse" and a suite of dances from John Blow’s "Venus and Adonis." The program will begin with Rebel’s explosive orchestral suite of "Les Élemens," which begins with a depiction of 18th century chaos: all the notes of the scale sounded at once!