Capering & Kickery

September 2016 Gig Calendar

Teaching mostly-hiatus continues, but expect more blog posts and a couple of special projects finishing up this month!  

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Sunday, September 4th ~ Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Regency dance workshop for the York Regency Dancers
Private workshop.

Wednesday, September 21st ~ Middletown, Connecticut
Autumn Regency Dance Party (Facebook event)
7:00-9:00pm.  Beginner-friendly social dancing.  Historical costume encouraged!

 

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I am available for private lessons in Connecticut or on my various travels; during the latter, you must provide the dance space.  Email me directly if you would like to schedule a private lesson.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: September 4-6
New Haven and Middletown, Connecticut: September 11-23

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See the Gig Calendar for further-out events and workshops!

An Alternate Star Cotillion

Way back in the early days of Kickery, one of my first few posts was on the Star figure found in Thomas Wilson's Royal Scotch Quadrilles (published in footnotes of The Danciad, 1824) and described, minimally, in his Quadrille and Cotillion Panorama (1816), and how I found an echo of it in an American cotillion figure more than fifty years later.  I later published a practical description of how to use it as a cotillion (German) figure.  

At the time, influenced by my reconstruction of the Star figure in the Royal Scotch Quadrilles, I interpreted the cotillion figure as a different way of describing the same figure.  But I recently came across the same late Star figure again in a 1912 cotillion manual, and looking at it, I realized there was another way to interpret it.