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Thomas Baird
By admin | January 12, 2011
Since 2003, Thomas Baird has taught Movement Styles for Singers in the Opera Division at Purchase. Beginning with the Purchase Opera production of Die Fledermaus in 2000, he has choreographed most of the annual productions. Mr. Baird is a Baroque Dance specialist, and is the co-director of Apollo’s Banquet, a New York City-based Baroque dance and music ensemble. For ten years he directed the annual East Coast Baroque Dance Workshop at Rutgers University. He is a regular guest lecturer on Baroque Dance at The Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music. He was the Period Movement Coach for the Broadway productions of O’Neill’s “A Touch of the Poet,” and, at Lincoln Center Theater, Sheridan’s “The Rivals.” In 2005, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut as a choreographer, providing period dances for Alfano’s “Cyrano de Bergerac.” He has choreographed and performed period dances for the New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts at Avery Fisher Hall for the past four seasons. Thomas is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, having received his training from the Balance Arts Center in NYC (Ann Rodiger, director). Mr. Baird is a Guest Faculty member in the Dance Division of The Juilliard School where he teaches the Alexander Technique.
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