This month is going to mostly be personal time for me: a family visit and an Actual Vacation^tm.  I’ll be squeezing a few days of library research (three different sites) in around these, but mostly I’ll be quietly traveling around doing non-dance things. 

Then, at the very end of the month, something new: Bridgerton dance!  This is specifically dance from the television series which — news flash! — is not intended to be historically accurate.  I regard the show as speculative fiction (alternate history) and the dances as fantastical, not historical.  You can read some of my thoughts about this here.  I taught a couple of these dances in Scotland last month, but this will be the first time teaching them in the USA.

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I'll be starting out August with a couple of weeks in Scotland.  The first weekend, I'll be teaching a dance workshop and leading a tea dance in Edinburgh, both with a general theme of Scottish dances influenced by or connected to those of Continental Europe and Continental dances that appeared in Scottish sources.  The second weekend, I'll be having a very eclectic time at the World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, which for me will include giving a popularly-oriented paper, leading a masquerade ball for which I've been reconstructing some truly terrifying dances from video, and DJ'ing a blues dance.  In between: library time and perhaps a bit of tourism!

Later in the month I'm looking forward to a reunion with a group of my most dedicated online students from pandemic times.

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