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Nobuko Yuasa Baroque & Renaissance Dance 湯浅宣子 Nobuko Yuasa (ルネサンス・バロックダンス)
立教大学卒業。日本聖公会教会音楽学校で声楽、山崎陽子氏よりパイプオルガンを学ぶ。
英・米国、スペイン他にてバロックダンスをK.ピアース、A.イエペス、P.ウェイト、B.シーガル、T.ベアード、P.-W.ボーゲスに、ルネサンスダンスを
P.ディクソン、D.クリックシャンクに、古典マイムをS.ボーデンに学ぶ。
英国他海外のダンス公演に毎年出演。2004〜2016年、英国、フランスよりダンサー、演奏家を招き、日本公演ツアーを企画、出演。
2013年度英国ケンブリッジに在住し、歴史舞踏とフォークダンスの活動・調査を行う。
国内各地、香港等でルネサンス、バロックダンスを講習、舞踏・衣装史に関する講演を行う。舞台衣装を公証、デザイン、製作。
京都国際日本文化研究センター他にて琵琶や義太夫の語りとルネサンスダンスによる舞台作品を制作。
CD「ムルシア:スペイン宮廷の為のフランス舞踏曲集」を監修、解説。平成24年度「岡山県芸術文化賞功労賞」受賞。
エリザベト音楽大学、岡山城東高校音楽科、姫路市立パルナソスホール他バロックダンス講師。
英国アーリーダンス協会、欧州舞踏史学協会会員。英国ロスティボリ・ルネサンス・ソロダンサー。
Nobuko Yuasa graduated from Rikkyo University in Tokyo, where she learned music at Church Music School of Anglican-Episcopal Church of Japan and was the member of the choir. She later learned playing organ at Okayama Catholic Church.
She studied Renaissance dance with Peggy Dixon and Diana Cruickshank, Baroque dance with Philippa Waite in the U.K. She developed her study of Baroque dance also in the U.S.A. with Ken Pierce, Thomas Baird and Paige Whitley-Bauguess, in Spain with Ana Yepes, and in the U.K. with Barbara Segal. In France she furthered her study in Commedia dell’Arte with Sally Borden. Today she dances in many venues outside of Japan in various concerts such as Rostiboli Renaissance Dance in the U.K., where she is invited every year, and International Baroque Institute at Longy in USA.
Domestically she organizes concerts in various cities in Japan, some of which feature guest foreign performers such as Consort de Dance Baroque(UK), Trio Nitetis (France), and travel through major cities in Japan, also herself is invited from varied organizers in many cities from Tokyo to Fukuoka.

While she organizes concerts and workshops where she dances, she is also engaged in teaching the early dance. Besides her regular classes in Okayama, Kobe and Nagoya, she teaches Baroque dance for Elizabeth Music University in Hiroshima, for the musical department of Okayama Jyoto High-school, for Harpsichord course at Himeji Parnassus Hall regularly, and for various workshops for the musicians such as Early Music Company in Osaka. Recently she launched “English Country Dance Ball” twice a year in Osaka and “Baroque Dance Basic Course” in Nagoya.
She has also choreographed historical dances for stages and classes.
In her entire career as a dancer, all the historical and non-historical costumes for the dance have been created and handmade by herself, based on a thorough independent study on the costume and the history. She worked for kids and teenagers musical more than ten years as costume designer and choreographer.
She is the editorial supervisor and producer of the CD “Santiago de Murcia: French Dances Music for the Spanish Court.” (2008)
In 2008 she was awarded “Okayama Prefecture Art and Cultural Prize.”
She is the member of Early Dance Circle (UK), European Dance Historian Association, and also runs Okayama Early Dance Society.
She stayed in Cambridge, in the U.K., for a year in 2013-2014 and extended the knowledge and experience on historical dance and various folk dances.

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