Reviving yearly collections of dances

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In this ambitious project Mercurius Company proposes to revive the 18th-century tradition of publishing yearly collections of dances, whilst engaging both outstanding and emerging choreographers by publishing their notated choreographies in Beauchamps-Feuillet system. The publication shall provide professional and amateur Baroque dancers today with so-needed new material, and offer a glimpse of each choreographer's creative style, their approach, their interpretation and/or reworking of Baroque aesthetics.

 

Above all, this initiative will ensure the corpus of precious contemporary 'Baroque' choreographic creations will be preserved for generations to come!

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Volume II: LA BELLE DANSE

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The second volume (2021) contains 19 choreographies by Ricardo Barros, Deda Cristina Colonna, Pierre-François Dollé, Sarah Edgar, Jane Gingell, Hubert Hazebroucq, Madeleine Inglehearn, Edith Lalonger, Gudrun Skamletz, Catherine Turocy, and Dorothée Wortelboer, choreographed in the belle danse style. The dances vary from solos to groups of 6 dancers:

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Jean-Baptiste Lully – Ballet de Xerces (1660)

Entrée pour les Basques (a 2) by Ricardo Barros

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Pierre Beauchamps – Les Fâcheux (1661)

Entrée pour un Valet et une Servante (a 2), by Gudrun Skamletz

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Lully – L’Amour Médecin (1665)

Chaconne (a 4), by Ricardo Barros

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Lully – Le Triomphe de l’Amour (1681)

Entrée des Bergers Héroyques (a 5), by Ricardo Barros

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Lully – Armide (1686)

Passacaille (a 6), by Deda Cristina Colonna

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anon– [Sarabande] (c.1686)

Petite Sarabande (seul), by Ricardo Barros

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Henry Purcell – Timon of Athens (1694)

Curtain Tune (a 2), by Dorothée Wortelboer

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Marin Marais – Ariane et Bacchus (1696)

Chaconne (a 5), by Sarah Edgar

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John Galliard – Pan and Syrinx (1717)

Entrée des nymphes et de sylvain (a 3), by Madeleine Inglehearn

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Francois Couperin – Les Goûts Réunis (1724)

Courante  Les Grâces (a 2), Sarabande La Noble Fierté (a 2), Loure (seul), Entrée de Baccante (seule),

by Ricardo Barros

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Couperin – Les Nations (1726)

Chaconne La Française (a 2), by Ricardo Barros

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Georg Philipp Telemann – Fantasie (1732)

Menuet d'Arlequin ivre (seul), by Hubert Hazebroucq

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George Frideric Handel – Ariodante (1735)

Musette (a 2), by Catherine Turocy

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Jean Philippe Rameau – Castor et Pollux (1737)

Tambourin (seul), by Pierre-François Dollé

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Rameau – Zaïs (1748)

Sarabande (a 2), by Edith Lalonger

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Andre Campra – L’Europe Galante (1697)

Passacaille Turque (a 6), by Jane Gingell

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