Learning Objective
To give students practical experience in combining dance and music based authentic choreographies and sources, to have some backround knowledge on baroque dance, and to acquire a basic skill in reading the Beauchamp-Feuillet notation.

Course Description
The spirit of dance permeates the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Whether chamber, church or theater music, whether for dancers, voices or just for instruments alone, much of the music of the baroque period can be directly related to dance music and its rhythms: in fact, Kirnberger, a pupil of J.S. Bach, went so far as to say that it was impossible to even perform a fugue well without a complete understanding of dance and its rhythms!
This course will focus on Baroque dance in its courtly and, from January on, its theatrical forms. Students will be required to dance, to experience their own bodies in motion to Baroque music.