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 Catherine Turocy is Artistic
Director and co-founder of The New York Baroque Dance Company and is
internationally recognized for her contribution to the current revival of
18th century works. She has been commissioned to choreograph
over 20 opera productions in France and the United States, including
Rameau's Les Boréades and Les Fêtes d'Hébé, Leclair's
Scylla et Glaucus, Charpentier's Les Arts Florissants. In 1995 Ms. Turocy was knighted by the French
government for her artistic contributions to the dance field.
As a stage director, she has mounted
Gluck's Orfeo and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in New York
City, Handel's Ariodante for the Spoleto Festival USA in
Charleston, South Carolina, Landi's Il Sant'Alessio in Los Angeles,
and Handel's Apollo e Dafne for the New World Symphony in Miami
Beach. She has worked with such notable conductors as Christopher Hogwood,
Nicholas McGegan, James Richman, and John Eliot Gardiner. Her ballets have
been filmed for French and American television and featured at
international venues including the Châtelet in Paris, the Aix-en-Provence
Festival, the Opéra de Lyon and the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln
Center and the Mozart Festival at the Kennedy Center.
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