'This will be the first experience with Baroque dance at Indiana University,' writes Early Music Institute Director Michael McCraw in a news release. 'The theater techniques of the baroque were very stylized with the use of many gestures.

Since baroque opera is now being produced in most of the major opera houses, it is important that our students have exposure to this'. Catherine Turocy, one of the co-founders of the ballet troupe, taught theater classes for the benefit of Indiana’s large opera department, and the school’s ballet department took technical instruction during intensive, historically oriented workshops.