Along with this Saturday’s Regency Assembly at the 92nd Street Y, I will be teaching two dance workshops for The Elegant Arts Society in New York City on Sunday, June 29th. Logistical details are here.
Month: June 2008
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Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY (June 12-15, 2008)
I will be attending the annual conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars this weekend up in Saratoga Springs, New York. I am not presenting at the conference, but I hope to meet other scholars with an interest in social dance history and reconstruction and possibly involve myself in some of the working groups that match my interests (Reconstruction, Early Dance, and Popular/Social/Vernacular Dance).
This will be my first SDHS conference, and I don’t expect to know too many people there. I’d be very happy to meet anyone who reads this blog or hear from anyone I already know that you’re attending.
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A Waltz Quadrille (1893)
By the end of the 19th century, quite a number of quadrilles were being published that didn’t follow the earlier form of having multiple separate figures. Although this dance does have two distinct dance parts, the original instructions (which may be seen here) are clear that they should be treated as one long figure:
Play an ordinary waltz and do not stop between the numbers.
The source of the dance is The Prompter’s Handbook by J.A. French, published in Boston in 1893. I haven’t looked for any other sources for this particular set of figures – it’s a trivial little quadrille which I reconstructed in order to have a late-evening set dance that was easy and provided an excuse for plenty of waltzing.
