The London Handel Players have researched and performed numerous original choreographies from the baroque period with their inimitable dancers, Mary Collins and Steven Player, giving audiences the opportunity to experience the immense variety of dance music from this time as it was originally presented.  

In this programme they will perform dances written for royalty in both England and continental Europe by composers such as Lully, Campra, Corelli, Handel and Bach. The dances featured will include the menuet, gigue, loure, sarabande, passacaille and Louis XIV’s favourite dance, the courante. Also included will be the ‘Queen Caroline’, a rigaudon choreography by L’Abbé set to music which Handel had written for his opera, Scipione, in 1726 and which can be heard in its original orchestration performed by Southbank Sinfonia Baroque on 27th October here at St. John’s.