Aimable Vainqueur, The Life of a Dance
(Kaj Sylegard, Karin Modigh)
This short presentation has the aim of illustrating a long life; the life of one of the most popular dances of the 18th century. Through 4 versions of the choreography, each different in their own way, the lifespan of Aimable Vainqueur will be pictured from its birth in 1701 until the time, at the end of the century, when it fell into oblivion.
Kaj Sylegard, Hägersten, Sweden:
Kaj Sylegård is a graduate of the Stockholm Royal Academy of Music and of the University College of Dance in Stockholm. Among his main teachers you find Jane Gingell from London as well as Regina Beck-Friis and Anna-Karin Ståhle from Stockholm. At present he regularly gives lectures and teaches dance at the College of Dance and the Ballet-Academy in Stockholm. He has also lectured and taught as guest teacher at the Royal Swedish Ballet school, and has given lectures about dance music in the baroque period in the Swedish radio.
