The highlight of this month will be a trip to a historical dance conference in Russia. Not a lot else is happening around that other than my usual monthly classes and a fast trip to Boston at the end of the month.
Category: Announcements
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February 2014 Gig Calendar
February will be crazy travel month for me! Early in the month I'll be squeezing my usual New York, Middletown, and Boston-area Regency and blues-DJing gigs plus a waltz workshop all into eight hectic days. Mid-month, I will be a featured performer at the Dance Flurry Festival before heading south to North Carolina. I don't expect to be squeezing anything else into February — I'm just hoping the weather holds up for all this travel!
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January 2014 Gig Calendar
Happy New Year! After a wonderful holiday full of friends and family and library research, I'm back on the road again! Nineteenth century to start out the month, then a series of blues DJing gigs, wrapping up with a 1770s ball at the end of the month!
This list is not yet complete, as I'm still working out a set of waltz classes and events, so check back in a week or so for more listings and links!
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December 2013 Gig Calendar
I'm winding down my gig and class schedule for the year, so I have a light schedule through mid-month followed by seven quiet days at home with no teaching or travel before I go away over Christmas. Here are the details:
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November 2013 Gig Calendar
Lots of southward travel this month: New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Sadly, no Boston DJing this month, but I'm working on a couple more gigs, so check back for updates!
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October 2013 Gig Calendar
The big event this month is the 11th Regency Assembly, this year with a masquerade theme! Other than that, this is a quiet month between the wildness of September and November, with just my usual New York/New England travels and a bit of DJing. I'll be making some short research trips mid-month in my continuing quest to track down every tiny little American country dance/cotillion manual in New England, and then I'm spending a few days in Florida with family.
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September 2013 Gig Calendar
Back in the swing of things for fall! I'll be teaching 19th century dance in Chicago, Connecticut, and New York and doing blues DJ gigs in New York, New Haven, and Boston. In between there'll be a bit of Renaissance dance and a Regency tea dance in Connecticut, a basic cross-step waltz class series, and a walking tour of historical song and dance in Boston! Here's the schedule as it stands, subject to a few more additions. I'll be adding details and Facebook event links as they become available.
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August 2013 Gig Calendar
One more fellowship trip, a couple of workshops, and another ball, all crammed into early August! I may add a couple of DJ stints or other workshops, but mostly this is a recovery-and-writing month after three months of near-constant travel. I'll have some much-needed vacation time at the end before things pick up again in the fall.
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July 2013 Gig Calendar
This is another month that's going to be mostly occupied by fellowship research, but I'll also be spending a week at dance camp and then doing a cluster of workshops and a ball at the end of the month! I'm barely leaving Connecticut, but I'll be ping-ponging constantly among four different cities. Here are the details:
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New England Regional Fellowship
Much obliged for the quadrilles, which I am grown to think pretty enough, though of course they are very inferior to the cotillions of my own day.
— Jane Austen, letter of February 20, 1816, to her niece FannyA formal announcement has at last been made: I will be spending the next year (June 1, 2013-May 31, 2014) as one of the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium research fellows. I'm very excited and honored to have received a research grant which more typically goes to those with a conventional academic career path. And I'm thrilled that this will enable me to devote months of intense research time to the complicated topic of cotillions, which I've been looking into off and on over the past year or so.
