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Notes on Contributors

THOMAS BAIRD specializes in the reconstruction and performance of eighteenth-century dance and other movement genres of the past. He teaches baroque dance technique throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. He and baroque dancer Paige Whitley-Bauguess have collaborated as dance partners for over twenty years, appearing with many of the top early music instrumental ensembles. Their work can be seen in two DVDs: Introduction to Baroque Dance: Dance Types, and Dance of the French Baroque Theatre. Baird is a longtime faculty member of the State University of New York at Purchase, The Juilliard School, and Hartt School of Music. He choreographed the U.S. premiere of Franco Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac at the Metropolitan Opera, and, for five years, choreographed and performed for New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts.