FRANCE

Founder of the RenaiDanse company
Choreographer, Dancer, Teacher, Artistic adviser

V?ronique graduated in Early Music from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. She studied folk dances, English country dances and French renaissance dances with teachers of the Atelier de la danse populaire de Paris.
Andrea Francalanci introduced her to the world of Italian dances of the Renaissance. During her meetings with Andrea and Barbara Sparti, V?ronique pursued research which led her to address the problems of tempo relationships in the Italian balli of the fifteenth century.
Through her musical training, her research, her knowledge of dance, her rigorous ethic and her daily practice, V?ronique Daniels is an expert in the worlds of both the dance and music of the Renaissance.
Founder of the company RenaiDanse, V?ronique puts on her own creations in which music and text mix together to accompany the movements of the dance. She is often asked to collaborate in projects outside RenaiDanse which she enjoys doing. V?ronique leads workshops and teaches the dances of the Renaissance as well as historical music notation at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
V?ronique has published:
• “Die Temporelationen im Ballo des Quattrocento” with Eugen Dombois, Basler Jahrbuch f?r historische Musikpraxis, 1990.
• “Tempo Relationships Within The Italian Balli of the XVth century,” The Marriage of Music and Dance. 1992.
• She is the author of the articles “Domenico da Piacenza” and “Antonio Cornazzano” in the new MGG.
• V?ronique is currently completing the transcription of the “balletti” in lute tablature from the Treatise of Cesare Negri (1602). She presented this work at the International Conference of Ghent in April 2000 and it will be published by Editions Fagisis.

Performances:
In June 2010, “Madrigali Guerrieri e Amorosi” by Claudio Monteverdi with Sharon Weller and Johannes Strobl in Muri (Switzerland);
In 2009: collaboration and medieval experimentation with Carles Mas y Garcia and the Ensemble Tasto Solo of Guillermo P?rez, “Notes pour moi ceste estampie.” A show presented at the opening of the Festival “Espazos Sonoros” in Santiago de Compostela (2009) and as part of AMUZ in Antwerp (2010);
In 2008, V?ronique presented in Muri her production of the cycle of dances by Domenico da Piacenza;
In 2004, with Ensemble Micrologus, “La Festa Fiorentina”, a show created for the opening of the Festival of Flanders in Antwerp;
in 2002, with Ensemble Micrologus, “Le Jeu de Robin et Marion” produced at the Abbey of Royaumont.

http://www.renaidanse.org