Philippa Waite is well known as a performer and teacher of Baroque dance. She studied with Wendy Hilton and taught for her at the annual Baroque Music and Dance Workshops at Stanford University, USA. Philippa is currently guest teacher of Period Movement and Dance at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff, and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She is Artistic Director of Consort de Danse Baroque and as such choreographs in the Baroque style for the company's productions; she also teaches, performs and gives lecture-demonstrations throughout the UK and abroad.
As a choreographer and reconstructor of historical dance, Philippa offers Period Movement and Dance workshops to schools, colleges, universities, conservatoires, musicians and theatre/opera companies, and is available as a consultant/choreographer for theatre, opera, television and film productions.
Consort de Danse Baroque is a historical dance company offering performances, lecture-demonstrations, school workshops, and an annual summer school held in Cardiff, South Wales, as well as regular classes in Baroque and historical dance around the UK and abroad.
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Philippa Waite
A series of 5 notation reading classes, for different levels, via Zoom. Time zone UK
Classes Thursdays: 1a: Beginners: 5.30pm-6.30pm. 1b: Improvers: 6.45pm-7.45pm.
1c: Intermediate: 8.00pm-9.00pm. 1d: Mixed Level: 9.30pm-11.00pm.
Classes: Sunday: 1e: Mixed Level: 9.00pm-10.30pm.
The classes for beginners and improvers will cover fundamental elements of Beauchamp-Feuillet notation system and will include, depending on level of class, learning to recognise basic step-units and their variations as well as timings in typical dance rhythms such as sarabande, bourée, menuet and gigue. Short notated class sequences will be studied alongside simple and moderate extant Ballroom dances in a range of rhythms and complexity suitable for the class level.
Intermediate students will focus on consolidating their knowledge in order to easily read moderate level extant dances as well as widening their step vocabulary to include more complex step-units and variations in some of the more unusual dance rhythms such as chaconne, passacaille, loure and hornpipe. Dances, suitable for the class level, will be selected from Theatrical as well as Ballroom sources.
For further information please visit www.ukbaroquedance.com or contact Philippa: philippa@ukbaroquedance.com
Course
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