Rescuing all my data from the Typepad shutdown was not what I had been planning to do this month!  I’m going to have to spend a significant chunk of time this month downloading data and teaching myself WordPress so I can bring it all back on a new platform. This is not going to be fun.

And yes, through all of this website crisis, I will still have to travel and teach.  September is not insanely busy, but if I’d known I’d have to move my entire site this month, I would have planned even fewer events.  I’ll have quick trips to Boston and New York (Long Island) and classes in Connecticut, including a weekly series on basic nightclub two-step!

As always, events and workshops past the present month may be found on my overall gig calendar.

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Summer has come in, and my main work now is writing and catching up on my personal life.  I’ll be in and out of New York City, New Jersey, and Boston, for research, rehearsal, dancing, and DJing, but otherwise more-or-less invisible!

As always, events and workshops past the present month may be found on my overall gig calendar.
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This month is going to feature some mental whiplash: two classes of fantasy-Regency (meaning, totally bogus from a historical perspective) Bridgerton dance classes, then haring off to England to immerse myself in serious academic dance history at Oxford University!  Plus sneaking in some research time and exciting extra excursions while I'm in the neighborhood…

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I'm going to start off May with a long trip to England to teach and call at a folk festival and then do some research in London, where the British Library is finally semi-functional again after last autumn's cyberattack.  I have a lengthy "shopping list" of sources to look at and a list of museum exhibitions to visit while they are paging them!

After that, and April's travel insanity, I'm going to spend the rest of the month at home recovering and hopefully catching up on processing and cataloguing my research photos all the way back to February…

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April is going to be fun!  I'll be heading to Chicago to run dance workshops and a ball for a Regency-themed LARP and an evening of 18th and 19th century French dance, to Massachusetts for the New England Folk Festival (NEFFA), and then down to Staten Island (NYC) for an 1824 Lafayette Ball.  I don't put library days on my schedule, but I'll have time this month at both the New York Public Library and the Newberry.  In between I'll try to keep catching up on cataloguing material from previous library trips!

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