Current & Forthcoming Projects
8-14 APR 2024
Dance as a Discourse - Rhetoric in Motion
Utrecht, Netherlands
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A week-long residential project at Utrecht Conservatorium in partnership with Antoinette Lohmann, exploring rhetorical choreo-musical relations in the Franco-British dance repertoire of the Grand Siecle.​
1-6 APR 2024
Benslow Opera Course - Handel's Acis & Galatea
Hitchin, UK
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A week-long residential course at Benslow Music, leading to a fully staged historically informed performance of Handel's pastoral Acis & Galatea.​
Stage direction & choreography by Ricardo Barros, costumes and scenery from Mercurius Company's collection.
​Benslow Music Courses and Concerts - The Benslow Baroque Opera: Handel's Acis and Galatea
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8-10 NOV 2023
The Greater Manchester Holiday
Stretford Public Hall
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a 3-day workshop led by Ricardo Barros, with classes for beginners and intermediate/advanced Baroque dancers, focusing on Baroque dance and Country dancing. Leading to a ball on Friday 10th with live music by Mercurius.
Tickets available at WeGotTickets | Simple, honest ticketing | The Greater Manchester Holiday
10 FEB 2023
Biber, The Sorrowful Mysteries - The Bach Players
Laidlaw Music Centre, University of St Andrew's, Scotland
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Premiere of a new collaboration with Nicolette Moonen and The Bach Players, Biber's poignant Mystery Sonatas (written in scordatura) presented with another contrapuntal layer with the choreography by Ricardo Barros.​
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3-5 FEB 2023
Baroque Dance Course
Burg Rothenfels, Germany
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A weekend residential course at the iconic Burg Rothenfels, home of the Historical Dance Symposium. Ricardo Barros is joined by violinist Nicolette Moonen, working on the choreo-musical relation in French and ENglish Baroque dances.
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25-28 JAN 2023
Tage der Alten Musik - Hoschule fur Musik Wurzburg
Wurzburg, Germany
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Workshops and performance, directed by violinist Pauline Nobes.​