(Please excuse any cross-postings.)

Announcing …

Historical Dance Program (July 7-15, 2012)

at the

AMHERST EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut

This Year’s Theme: “Music of the German Lands”

Dance Faculty: Dorothy Olsson, Director; Kaspar D. Mainz (from Germany!)

Dance Classes:

Dance is an integral part of the Amherst Early Music Festival (a two-week early music festival with a vast array of musical offerings; see http://www.amherstearlymusic.org/). For the 2012 workshop, classes will be offered in Baroque Dance, Baroque Dance Notation, and Renaissance Dance. Participants are also entitled to attend many other events (including English country dancing, concert and lectures) in the evenings that are part of the Amherst Early Music Festival.

Classes for the Historical Dance Program will focus on dance materials from Germany, and will culminate in rehearsals for two public performances:

--a fully staged production of Georg Phillip Telemann's Der geduldige Socrates (1721)   on July 13, and

--a special dance performance, “Sondershausen Sing-Ballett,” (1702), with the Festival Oboe Band on July 14.

All levels of dancers are welcome.

For more information on the dance programs, please see http://www.amherstearlymusic.org/ or http://www.newyorkhistoricaldance.com/. Or, contact Dr. Dorothy Olsson: [log in to unmask]

Für Informationen auf Deutsch, bitte kontaktieren Sie Kaspar D. Mainz: [log in to unmask]

For an Application Form, and more information about the Amherst Early Music Festival, please visit our website,

http://www.amherstearlymusic.org/, or send an email to: [log in to unmask]

Amherst Early Music, Inc.

Marilyn Boenau, Director

P.O. Box 229

Arlington, MA 02476, U.S.A.

Phone: 781-488-3337

We hope you will join us!

Best,

Dorothy Olsson

Kaspar D. Mainz