Angene Feves papers

1965-2004

Angene Feves is a dancer and historian who specializes in the research, teaching, and reconstruction of sixteenth and eighteenth century dance. Feves began her career as a ballet dancer, then worked as a choreographer for Oakland Civic Ballet and other groups. By 1967 she was the director of the Richmond Ballet Company and was also performing with the Dancing Troubadours, of which she was the director and founder. Interested in early dance, Feves studied Renaissance dance manuals and early music at San Francisco State University.

Feves performed period dances along with partner Charles Perrier as a member of the Consortium Antiquum in the 1970s and early 1980s. They often appeared as guest artists with early music groups across the United States and Canada. Feves performed with the Consortium in addition to serving as their dance director, reconstructing dozens of dances from original sources. During her time with the Consortium Antiquum, Feves became nationally known as a leading Baroque and Renaissance dance specialist. Feves choreographed historical dances for theatrical productions such as Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Two Gentlemen of Verona. She was also an advisor, music director and stage director for Dance Through Time's Renaissance Revel and Dancetime! and assistant directed their 500 Years of Dance.

In 1991, she was the artist-in-residence for the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, and taught historical dance and movement as well as staging Mozart's ballet Les Petits Reins. Her additional teaching experience includes the San Francisco Early Music Society, San Rafael's Dominican College, and the Civic Arts of Walnut Creek (a city-sponsored arts program she founded), as well as at innumerable other institutions and conferences. In 1993 she was named a "Custodian of Dance in the San Francisco Bay Area" by the World Dance Congress.

Feves wrote early dance articles for journals such as Dance Chronicle, and the International Dance Encyclopedia, and in 2007 contributed to the book Women's Work: Making Dance in Europe Before 1800. She resides in California.