Paige Whitley-Bauguess

Paige performs and teaches Baroque theatre and social dance in venues around the world. A recent presenter wrote "what [she does] is excellent – artistic, interesting, historic – and downright exciting not to mention fun…one could not ask for more," (Steven Cooksey, Shenandoah University).

She is the producer of two baroque dance DVDs (now also Digital Downloads): Introduction to Baroque Dance-Dance Types and Dance of the French Baroque Theatre, featuring artistic collaborations with her dance partner Thomas Baird. Their work has been described as "a window on the past...like being caught in a musical and theatrical time warp that reached my ears and eyes as a soft-focus vision of a quite spectacular moment in the history of western performance art," (The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, BC).

Paige has given masterclasses and residencies at universities, museums, and historical sites in the US, Canada, Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore, and Japan. As dance faculty for the Twin Cities Baroque Instrumental Program, Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, Modern Early Music Institute, East Coast Baroque Dance Workshop at Rutgers University, and Stanford Baroque Dance Workshop, she has taught Baroque dance to countless musicians, dancers, and actors. She has also taught masterclasses for Suzuki students and teachers in DC, Virginia, and North Carolina.

In addition to performing and teaching, Paige has stage directed baroque opera and theatre for UNC-Chapel Hill, Wingate University, Bloomington Early Music Festival, Magnolia Baroque Festival (with Baird), Peabody Conservatory, East Carolina University, and VOX choral group (Charlotte).

She is a former member of the NY Baroque Dance Company and holds an MA in Dance History from the University of California at Riverside and a BFA in Ballet from the UNC School of the Arts.