Students will learn the basic steps of baroque dance, the prevailing dance form of the theaters and ballrooms in eighteenth century Europe. By the end of the class, students will be able to dance the minuet, the most popular dance in European ballrooms! 

 

Sarah Edgar specializes in eighteenth century stage performance. She is the stage director/choreographer of the Haymarket Opera Company in Chicago and an associate director of the The New York Baroque Dance Company. Her 2013 directing debut with the Haymarket Opera Company, Telemann’s Pimpinone, was hailed by Newcity as one of the five best operas in Chicago. As a dancer with the New York Baroque Dance Company, she has performed at Drottningholm Theater in Sweden, the International Händelfestspiele Göttingen, Danspace at St. Mark’s Theater, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival.