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PAIGE WHITLEY-BAUGUESS & THOMAS BAIRD

Baroque Dancers Paige Whitley-Bauguess and Thomas Baird have collaborated exclusively as dance partners for the past eighteen years. Together, they interpret, recreate, and perform Baroque theatre dance in venues all over the world. A recent performance was described as "a window on the past...like being caught in a musical and theatrical time warp that reached my ears and eyes as a soft-focus vision of a quite spectacular moment in the history of western performance art," (The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, BC). Highlights of their artistic collaboration include repeat concerts with the Little Orchestra Society at Lincoln Center, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra of Vancouver, and Les Fêtes de Versailles in Japan; Bailles y Danzas, a program of Spanish music and dance performed with Chatham Baroque; and Harlequin Unmasked, music and dance of the commedia dell’ arte performed with REBEL. The duo met in 1986 as members of the New York Baroque Dance Company.

PAIGE WHITLEY-BAUGUESS is director of the Baroque Arts Project and Atlantic Dance Theatre in New Bern, NC, where she also directs two social dance troupes, the New Bern Dancing Assembly (youth) and the Craven Historical Dancers (adults). She has produced two baroque dance DVDs, Introduction to Baroque Dance-Dance Types and Dance of the French Baroque Theatre featuring the duo's collaborative work. In addition to her artistic collaborations with Thomas, Paige has stage directed baroque operas for the Bloomington Early Music Festival, the Peabody Conservatory, and East Carolina University, and is on the faculties of the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute and the East Coast Baroque Dance Workshop at Rutgers University. Whitley-Bauguess holds an MA in Dance History from the University of California at Riverside and a BFA in Ballet from the NC School of the Arts where she also attended high school.

THOMAS BAIRD co-directs Apollo's Banquet, a New York City-based Baroque dance and music ensemble, and since 1998, has directed the annual East Coast Baroque Dance Workshop at Rutgers University. Thomas lectures at The Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music and teaches Movement Styles for Singers at the State University of New York–Purchase where he also choreographs the opera productions. Recently, he was the Period Movement Coach for the Broadway production of O’Neill’s A Touch of the Poet, and, at Lincoln Center Theater, Sheridan’s The Rivals. In 2005, he provided period dances for the Metropolitan Opera’s Cyrano de Bergerac and last season Thomas choreographed and performed period dances for the New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts at Avery Fisher Hall.

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