Happy new year! It's got to be better than the last one, right? Did I say that last year, too? (Nope.)
This month I'm back (online) with the California-based Historical Tea & Dance Society for another lecture and will have a research trip or two, but we're in the midst of the Omicron surge, so not much else is happening, alas.
Please note: the events listed below are hosted in different cities/countries in different time zones. Please adjust for your own time zone before planning online attendance!
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Saturday, January 22nd ~ ONLINE / Connecticut-based
Cotillion Working Group Reunion Class
12:00pm-1:30pm. Private event.
Sunday, January 23rd ~ ONLINE / Connecticut-based
Dance Historian Meetup
11:00am-2:00pm. Private event.
Saturday, January 29th ~ ONLINE / California-based
From Jane Austen to Fezziwig, and Beyond: Why the last dance of the evening became the best dance of the night. (Facebook event)
for The Historical Tea & Dance Society (Facebook page)
2:00-3:30pm. A popularly-oriented Zoom lecture on three popular finishing/finale dances from England and France in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The official description: "The ball is almost over: you've worn holes in your slippers, your hair is coming down, and you may be a little bit drunk -- but you still want that one last dance, the finishing dance! Whether it's La Boulangère (the only dance mentioned by name in Jane Austen's novels) or Sir Roger de Coverley (stretching through the Regency to Charles Dickens), or the Grandfather dance, the finishing dance was your last hurrah of the evening." $5 per person, limited to fifty sixty people. See the Facebook event or the HT&DS website for registration.
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I am available for private or group online lessons and talks via Skype or Zoom (or your videoconferencing software of choice) during the pandemic; please email me directly if you would like to schedule a private lesson or talk. I am also available for small-group in-person dance events; fully vaccinated dancers only, please!
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Coming in February: more of the same, including another lecture!
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