© ALLEGRABernd Niedecken, who trained as a classical dancer in Freiburg and Strassbourg and baroque and renaissance dance in Paris, dances at the Freiburg Stadttheater and for various free-lance companies. In 1993 he and his wife, the musician Antje Niedecken, founded the Erato Ensemble, who he has also directed (including Le Mariage forcé by Molière/Lully/Beauchamp and Don Juan and Semiramis by Gluck/Angiolini). He has worked as an interpreter and teacher of historical dance with leading companies (L'Eventail, Fêtes Galantes, Passo Continuo, RenaiDanse) and holds regular courses at Freiburg, Trossingen and Zürich music universities. Bernd Niedecken has worked as a professor for historical dance at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar since 2009.