Internationally acclaimed baroque dancers Thomas
Baird and Paige Whitley-Bauguess
began working together as a duo eleven years ago. Their artistic
collaborations have excited and educated audiences in the US,
Canada, and Japan, receiving critical acclaim, as well as repeat
invitations to work with some of the finest Baroque music groups
in the world. Last year, they reconstructed, directed and danced
in the professional premiere of Philador's Le Mariage de la
Gross Cathos in Tokyo. Last winter, they choreographed Purcell's
Dido and Aeneas and choreographed and performed in The
Fairy Queen for the Dunbar Early Music Festival at Northwestern
University. Most recently, they choreographed and performed in
John Blow's Venus and Adonis at East Carolina University,
and reconstructed and choreographed Danzas y Bailes from
17th century Spanish dance sources for exclusive performances
with Chatham Baroque.
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Les Danses Nobles
(10 minutes)
Entrée d'Apolon [entrée grave] (Jean-Baptiste
Lully; Le Triomphe de l'Amour, 1681)
Passacaille pour une femme (Lully; Armide, 1686)
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A Pastoral Suite
(15 minutes)
(An homage to pastoral scenes populated by shepherds and
shepherdesses, reminiscent of paintings by Watteau and Fragonard)
Entrée pour un homme et une femme (Lully;
Thésée, 1675)
Pastoral performed by a Gentleman [loure/hornpipe] James
Paisible
Entrée pour un Berger et une Bergere [musette] (Marin
Marais; Sémélé, 1709)
Menuet performed by Mrs. Santlow Anonymous
L'Allemande (André Campra; Ballet des Fragments,
1702)
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Les Caractères de la Dance Jean Féry-Rebel (10 minutes)
A choreographed fantasie depicting comic and serious themes
of love, the music features a wide variety of dance types (courante,
menuet, bourree, chaconne, sarabande, gigue, rigaudon, passepied,
gavotte, loure, musette.
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Une Fête Marine
(A compilation by Paige Whitley-Bauguess and Thomas Baird; 20-25
minutes)
This is the story of 18th-century sailors
on-board a seafaring vessel who encounter a terrible tempest
and are whirled into the tragic, mythological story of Acis and
Galatea, features dances and music from two French operas: Jean-Baptiste
Lully's Acis et Galatée (1686) and Marin Marais'
Alcyone (1706).
Marche pour les Matelots,
Deuxième Air des Matelots [rigaudon]
Troisième Air des Matelots [tambourin]
La Tempeste
Acis and Galatea
Premier Air
Chaconne de Galathée
Entrée de Polipheme [gavotte]
Entrée des Ciclopes [loure]
Prelude
La Tempeste
Marche pour les Matelots
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Turkish Entrée
(Campra; L'Europe Galante, 1697) (8-10 minutes)
Exotic dances of a Sultan and his Sultanas.
Prelude
Passacaille
Turkish Dance [marche, forlana, gigue]
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Spanish Entrée
(Campra; L'Europe Galante, 1697) (8-10 minutes)
Prelude
Entrée Espagnolle pour une femme [loure]
Sarabande
Entreé dEspagnol [loure]
Entrée Espagnolle pour un homme et une femme [rondeau]
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Ballet des Fleurs
(Jean Phillippe - Rameau; Les Indes Galantes, 1735) (12-15
minutes)
La Rose, queen of flowers, in a Persian garden who is
wilted by Borée, a cold wind and is then revived by warm,
gentle Zéphire.
Air pour les Fleurs
Air pour la Rose
Gavotte en Rondeau
Orage
Air pour Borée
Air pour Borée et la Rose
Air pour Zéphire
Air pour Zéphire et la Rose
Gavotte
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Les Folies d'Espagne,
danced with castanets (12 minutes)
La Folia (Antonio Vivaldi)
Folies d'Espagne (Marais)
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Dances from the Paris Opéra
Duets performed by renowned Paris Opéra stars of
the early 18th century.
Entrée pour un Berger et une Bergere [musette] (Marin
Marais; Sémélé, 1709)
Entrée pour un homme et une femme [menuet] (AC Destouches;
Omphalle, 1701)
2eme Entrée des festes venitienne [rigaudon] (Campra,
1712)
Sarabande (Destouches; Issée, 1697)
L'Allemande (Campra; Ballet des Fragments, 1702)
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The Fairy Queen
(Henry Purcell, 1692) (10-15 minutes)
This story ballet follows the pursuits of Titania and
Oberon from Shakespear'es A Midsummer Nights Dream
Prelude
Rondeau
Air
Hornpipe
Fairies' Dance
Dance for the Followers of Night
Dance for the Green Men
Dance for the Haymakers
Monkey's Dance
Chaconne
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Die Fechtschule
(J. H. Schmelzer; The Fencing School) (10 minutes)
This ballet is based on the story of Julie Demaupasant,
a fierce fencer, and her lover Serrane, a great fencing master.
Aria 1
Aria 2
Sarabande
Courente
Fechtschule
Bader Aria
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Danzas y Bailes
Spanish dance program developed exclusively for performance
with Chatham Baroque.
Court Suite
Espanoleta
Folias
French/Spanish Suite: Menuet M'able and El Amable (Amable Vainqueuer)
Paradetas
Jacara: Escaraman y La Mendez
Canario
Zarabanda
Jacaras
Villanos
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 La
Pastorella (Concerto in D major, Vivaldi)
Allegro
Largo
Allegro
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The Adventures of Harlequin and Columbine (Concerto in D major, Vivaldi)
Allegro (The Venetian Lady)
Largo (The Letter)
Allegro (The Portrait)
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 Balletto di zingari e di
matti (Schmelzer)
A gypsy under the spell of a magician. Based on dance
descriptions by Gregorio Lambranzi (1712).
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