The Brazilian-Portuguese dancer and musician Ricardo Barros has an extraordinary ability to bring the vanished world of Baroque dance vividly to life, drawing on his training as a harpsichordist and his research into dance as an expression of the passions in an equivalent to rhetorical speech. In this entertaining lecture demonstration he is joined by the violinist Nicolette Moonen and his fellow dancer Barbara Segal to explore how choreography interacted with music and how dance was an expression of the court culture of the period.

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