Catherine Turocy, Artistic Director and co-founder of The New York Baroque Dance Company, is known internationally for her contribution to the revival of eighteenth-century ballet.  She has been commissioned to choreograph over twenty opera productions in France, Portugal and the United States, including Rameau's Les Boréades, Charpentier's Les Arts Florissants and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.  Her ballets have been filmed for French and American television and featured at international venues including the Thétre du Chatelet (Paris ), the Opéra de Lyon, the Téatro de San Carlo ( Lisbon ), the Kennedy Center, and the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center.  In January 1995, Ms. Turocy was named by the French Ministry of Culture to the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her outstanding contribution to the field of dance.  Ms. Turocy will create the choreography for the opera, and she and members of the Company will prepare student dancers for the performance and lead the dance ensemble.