This was always intended to be an at-home month as I teach my local classes and work on promoting two, count’em, TWO balls which, in a fit of insanity, I scheduled only three weeks apart. Life is now complicated by the ongoing project of restoring my blog on a new platform and developing a website around it. The fact that this post exists is evidence of (slow) progress!

Keep reading for the list of this month’s classes and ball. A full list of events further into the future may be found on my overall gig calendar.

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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 is winding down!  This month's big trip is to Seattle for a cluster of dance workshops and two balls at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon).  Before that, a couple of small classes.  After that, a final two quiet weeks at home before things get rolling for autumn.

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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The big trip this month is right at the end: the annual Dance Studies Association conference in Washington, D. C.  This will be the first time I have attended in many years, and I have a paper to present!  Other than that, I'll be sticking fairly close to home, or at least to the tri-state area, this month as things start to calm down for the summer.  

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Another month of compare-and-contrast events, this time with relatively minimal travel involved!  It'll be nice to sleep in my own bed for most of the month.

I start off out on Long Island with comparative workshops in Bridgerton dance and actual Regency dance, DJ blues in the Boston area and retro-twentieth-century music in Connecticut, and then flip over to 1910s for a short lecture at the opening of a small local case exhibit for which I am lending materials from my own collection!

Whee!!!

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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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March is weird.  Two weeks of absolutely nothing, then eight days of gigs in two weeks.  Whee!  Technically, that is four teaching days (including a three-day weekend), one evening of DJing, one morning and one evening of calling, and an academic conference, with trips to Boston and New York as well as two other parts of Connecticut.  Plus at least one day of library research.  The time periods jump from the Renaissance to the early 19th century to the present; it's almost as insane a mix as February.  I love it, but I wish things could be spread out a little bit more evenly…

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Busy, busy: that's February for me.  Two weekends in California followed by an eclectic set of sessions at The Flurry Festival, then a relatively light last weekend with another Dances of Bridgerton class!

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Happy new year!  After completely failing to have a restful holiday break in December, I am more-or-less doing that in January before everything gets crrrrrrazy in February.

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