La Bourrée - Dance Workshop
SA 7. Sep. 2024 | 16:30-17:30
Inner Courtyard of the Servite Church
(in case of rain in the parish hall)
free admission
In the Baroque era, dancing was not only a widespread art, but also a useful technique for presenting oneself. Together with historical dance expert Margit Legler, you can learn the French dance La Bourrée with its original steps in the inner courtyard of the Servite monastery. Around 1660, the Bourrée was a very popular dance at the royal court of Louis XIV, who himself was a passionate dancer. Discover the baroque art of walking, standing and dancing!
Margit Legler, Baroque Dance
Margit Legler, originally from Vienna, transitioned to specializing in historical performance practices of dance, singing, and theatrical arts after her career as a dancer at the Vienna State Opera Ballet. She founded her own ensemble, LES PLAISIRS DE LA DANSE, dedicated to historical dance performances. Their productions have been featured at venues including Schloss Kroměříž, the International Baroque Days in Melk, the Handel Festival in Göttingen, the Theater Museum Vienna, the Resonanzen at the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the Baroque Festival in St. Pölten.
Margit Legler has directed opera productions utilizing historical acting techniques at various international venues. These include "Die Zauberflöte" by Mozart in Tokyo, "Il parnaso confuso" by Gluck in Budapest, Salzburg, Schönbrunn, and Schloss Hof, "Il trionfo d´Amore" by Gassmann at Schlosstheater Ballenstedt, "Dido and Aeneas" by Purcell in Weimar and at the Handel Festival in Halle, "INO" by Telemann in Budapest, "Il Giuoco del Quadriglio" by Caldara at the Mozarteum Salzburg, "La Corona" by Gluck at the Mozarteum Salzburg, "Lucio Cornelio Silla" by Handel at the Handel Festival in Göttingen and Schlosstheater Ludwigsburg, and "Bach BWV 66a" at the Baroque Days in Köthen. She has also directed "Polifemo" by Bononcini at the Music Festival Potsdam - Sanssouci and the Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, and "Etearco" by Bononcini at UNIkate Wiener Konzerthaus. Margit Legler is actively involved in teaching through masterclasses across Europe and holds teaching positions in Historical Dance and Historical Acting at the Vienna State Opera Ballet Academy, the Mozarteum Salzburg, and since 2016, as a professor at MUK Private University Vienna.
LES PLAISIRS DE LA DANSE
Direction, Margit Legler
Les plaisirs de la danse is an ensemble of young professional dancers from several countries. They studied historical dance in the course of their training and developed a special interest in the complicated and elaborate original choreographies of the 18th century, which were introduced to them by Margit Legler. The ensemble has performed at the Austrian Theater Museum, the theater in TÅ™eboň and the Renaissance castle in Bukovice. In September 2017, the ensemble was a guest at the baroque festival "HORTUS MAGICUS" in the world heritage site of the archbishop's baroque garden in Kroměříž (Czech Republic). Close collaboration with the Ensemble Barucco (conductor Andreas Helm): 2019 at the "International Baroque Days Melk Abbey" and 2024 at the Baroque Festival St. Pölten. Baroque dance at the "Resonanzen" in the Vienna Konzerthaus since 2010.
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Project R&C
The ensemble **Project R&C**, short for "recorder" and "cello", consists of the recorder player Magdalena Spielmann and the baroque cellist Szczepan DembiÅ„ski. The two have set themselves the goal of researching and practically reviving the continuo practice that was widespread in the 17th and 18th centuries, in which the cello was the only continuo instrument. This historical practice can be clearly seen in the scoring of numerous chamber music compositions from the end of the 17th century onwards, where, as in Corelli's violin sonatas op. 5, it says "... _per violino e violone ó cimbalo_...".
© Andrej Grilc
Workshop by
Margit Legler​
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Dancers
Sina Zack, Annelie Fiona Vanicek​
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Musicians
Magdalena Spielman, Recorder
Szczepan Dembiński, Baroque Cello
Sobin Jo, Harpsichord
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