Mercurius Company

13/10/2025

A snippet of our collaboration with Manchester Baroque earlier in the month, at Halle St Peter's in Manchester.
Passacaille de Persee, choreography by Pecour (1704), set to music by Lully.
Dancers Ricardo Barros and Kath Waters, musical direction Pauline Nobes.

This is "Passacaille de Persee" by rickybarros on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

01/10/2025

📣 What's on this week📣

🎵Dance of the Nations🎵

Manchester Baroque perform a programme of Baroque dance music with live dancing on stage by period dance specialists Ricardo Barros and Kath Waters of the Mercurius Company. From the delicacy and refinement of the French style to the more ornate and extravagant Italian music of Vivaldi, this will be an unforgettable experience - not to be missed!

We are delighted to acknowledge the generous support of the Continuo Foundation for this concert.

📌 Saturday 4th October, 7.30pm Hallé St Peter's
🎟️ https://www.manchesterbaroque.co.uk/whats-on/dance-of-the-nations

28/09/2025

If you are in the Netherlands on Friday 31 October or Saturday 1st November, we'll be performing 'Dance of the Nations' with the Utrecht Conservatorium Baroque Orchestra, under Antoinette Lohmann.
Here's the link for Den Haag on Friday, whereas on Saturday we'll be at Utrecht Conservatorium.

Beschrijving Frans is chic, dat spreekt in Den Haag vanzelf. De toonaangevende positie van Frankrijk bereikte zijn hoogtepunt onder het bewind van Lodewijk XIV. Diens passie voor dans is legendarisch en zijn bijnaam Le Roi soleil komt direct voort uit zijn eigen optreden als Apollo in het Ballet Roy...

27/09/2025

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPGaxv3jCGU/?igsh=dGx4YmYwN3BsNTI=

19/08/2025

Bookings for our forthcoming concert 'Dance of the Nations' with Manchester Baroque, on Saturday 4 October are open!

Dance of the Nations   - With the Mercurius Company Supported by the Continuo Foundation  

03/12/2023

I noticed that Amazon is still selling my book for £65, and on Ebay it can be found for up to US$113!...DON'T BUY THEM! You can download it for free from https://www.mercuriuscompany.com/product-page/dance-as-a-discourse-phd-thesis-2007

I recommend you also read the appended paper https://www.mercuriuscompany.com/product-page/apollon-disheartened-hero-or-afflicted-god

Dance as Discourse - The rhetorical expression of the passions in French Baroque dance, Ricardo Barros's PhD thesis (2007). PDF document, 336 pp.The document is password protected (a password will be sent by email).Although the document is offered for free, customers need to create a profile and 'pu...

14/07/2023

Afternoon Summer party in Iffley, near Oxford, next Saturday 22nd.
Come take part in some country dancing, followed by a short performance by Ricardo Barros of Mercurius Company and members of Time & Truth Ensemble.

Tickets available at:

Join IT&T on Saturday 22nd July in Iffley Village Hall for a family-friendly Baroque Dance Workshop!

04/07/2023

Copies of the NCD 2020 & 2021 available on our website!
www.mercuriuscompany.com/books