Repertory
Repertory is composed of both ballroom dances and virtuoso theatrical dances from the middle of the16th century to the beginning of the 19th Century. The basis of the repertory lies in the Baroque and Rococo eras.
We perform the dances in appropriate historical costumes and one can combine them with a concert or a historical theatre performance (opera, melodrama, comedy); or they can serve as an opening of a ball or within some social gathering, especially when it takes place in some historical environment.
In the past years, Hartig realised the following reconstructions of the Baroque dances from the French and English sources:
L´Allemande, La Bretagne, La Bourgogne, Bourrée d´Achilles, Courante, Chaconne de Phaeton, Chacoon for a Harlequin, Earl of Errol, Echo Bourrée and Menuet, Entrée d´Apollon (1700), Entrée pour une femme (Forlane), Folies d´Espagne pour une femme, Forlane (1700), Gavotte du Roi, Gigue de Roland, La Matelotte, Menuet a deux, Menuet a quatre, Passacaille d´Armide, Passacaille de Persée, Rigaudon a quatre, Sarabande (1700), Sarabande (1704), Slow Menuet of Mr. Caverley etc.
In addition to these solo and couple dances, Hartig dances also the English, Austrian, German and French country dances, contredanses of the 17th-19th centuries. The ensemble also performs commedie dell´arte dances, revitalised by Helena Kazárová after the engravings and descriptions of G. Lambranzi and others.
Special projects are also devoted to the performance of long forgotten Rococo and Pre-Romantic Ballets.