Chorégraphie Antique Performs Collaborative Spring Concert

Release date: April 18, 2008 |

Goucher College's dance history ensemble, Chorégraphie Antique, will perform a collaborative concert on Sunday, May 4, with Musical Schola, a music ensemble that performs medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and 19th-century music on period instruments.

"Ballet and Social Dancing: Kissing Cousins" will be performed at 3 p.m. in Goucher's Merrick Lecture Hall. The concert illustrates how ballroom dance steps, styles, and forms helped lay the aesthetic and structural foundations for ballet during the 18th and 19th centuries.

This performance is free and open to the public. For more information, call 410-337-6391.

Chorégraphie Antique’s annual spring concerts are an educational and entertaining tradition at Goucher College. Now in its 18th year, the ensemble was founded by Goucher professor and noted dance historian Chrystelle Trump Bond, who painstakingly reconstructs many of the dances from original documents and sheet music. Chorégraphie Antique is one of only four historic dance companies found at university and colleges in the United States.

Over the years, Chorégraphie Antique has performed at many notable venues, including the Smithsonian Institution, Colonial Williamsburg, the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, and the Society of Dance History Scholars Annual International Conference in Limerick, Ireland.