Last Friday I went to the concert at the end of the first day of the International Baroque Dance Symposium celebrated (until this morning) in the new Amsterdam conservatory (that I also wanted to visit).

And I really enjoyed it: it was a short but at the same time varied programme, with students and teachers from the conservatory (exquisite Francesco Corti’s continuo!) and dancers from the Nationale Balletacademie and not so “national” ones like Ricky Barros, which expressiveness during the folias deserved itself being there…

French and Italian music…, and a little “present” from the Spanish Escuela Bolera: