Susan de Guardiola, Social Dance Historian
I continue to be on teaching hiatus, so the three events below (two in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in November and one in Kiev, Ukraine, in December) are the ONLY events I will teach at for the remainder of 2016.
Note that I will not be at Gettysburg this year!
Teaching mostly-hiatus continues, but expect more blog posts and a couple of special projects finishing up this month!
I am mostly on hiatus from teaching this summer, but will have a couple of workshops at the end of August. Stay cool!
I am mostly on hiatus from teaching this summer, but I will still do my two regular monthly Regency workshops in Middletown, Connecticut, and New York City! (Edited to add: and a cross-step waltz workshop in New York City!)
June starts out crazy for me with a trip to Washington and New York and a weekend in the Catskills, then everything calms down as I wind up my spring waltz class serieses and head toward a summer hiatus that I'm taking to give myself time to work on some special projects.
Bashes and balls! I'll be doing three public social events this month: the Mystery and Benevolence Bash at the American Folk Arts Museum in New York City; the Burning of the Ships Commemoration Ball in Essex, Connecticut; and a weekend of two balls and a workshop at a science fiction convention in Baltimore, Maryland. In between, the usual classes and a quick trip to Boston for research and Renaissance dance!
This is mostly a stay-home-and write month for me, with my only significant travel being to the New England Folk Festival (NEFFA) mid-month! It's been a few years since I could last make it to NEFFA due to calendar conflicts, so I'm excited to be back and looking forward to a great weekend of dance and music!
Greetings from Kyiv, Ukraine! I'm here preparing to teach a whole slew of classes in dance from the early nineteenth century through the early twentieth, with a side-helping of Steampunk!
After Kyiv, I'll be back in Russia briefly for a quick trip to teach in Voronezh before heading home to a more relaxing second half of the month of my regular waltz and Regency classes, including a special one-shot class on easy 1910s waltz choreographies and the beginning of four-week a series on nineteenth-century waltz.
Back on the road again for real this month: after the usual round of weekly waltz and monthly Regency workshops and a historical/modern mashup dance in New York City, I will once again be heading off to Europe for the first two stops of a four-city tour that will take me to three cities in Russia and one in Ukraine! Catch me for dance workshops or private lessons on one continent or the other!
Happy new year!
I’m still wrapping up holiday writing and other projects, so other than a couple of research trips, I’m not on the road much this month. Most of the calendar involves waltz, waltz, and more waltz, lightly interspersed with Regency classes and blues DJing, with my sole annual Revolutionary War ball as the grand finale!
I’m going to spend a big chunk of early December on the road in Ohio and Illinois doing some teaching and research and conducting a Caledonian Regency ball with a mix of French, Scottish, and English dances of the era for the English country dance community in Chicago. Somehow I have managed to schedule four major Regency workshops or events in four different cities within an eleven-day period. Exciting!
After that, I’ll be quietly at home for my holiday recess/research/writing time through the New Year. That’ll be good, too.
The big event for me in November is the Remembrance Day Ball in Gettysburg, which will be followed in quick succession by a Thanksgiving-weekend trip to Baltimore. Other than that, I have my usual run of waltz and Regency workshops in Middletown and New York and, at last…conga!!!
I'm home in early October and then back on the road with a vengeance — three cities in seven days to lecture, teach, research, and DJ! After that, I'm staying home in Connecticut preparing for our thirteenth annual Regency Assembly, this year with a Parisian theme, and setting up a new set of beginner-level waltz classes in Middletown, Connecticut.
Towards the end of the month there will also be…conga! (Edited to add: nope, conga next month!)
Well, my attempt to stay at home in August and work on projects turned into spending more than half the month on the road to various libraries, events, and family members. That was fun, and I made some intriguing discoveries and moved various research projects along, but it was not what I really needed to be doing.
So let’s try this one more time:
I am spending September at home getting things done. Not even a library trip. I may add one or two little local(ish) classes to this very short list, but the plan is to stay home this month and then go back on the road in October.
After an exhausting July, August will be a quiet month for me with a bunch of little trips (research and otherwise) scattered through it and catch-up work on several much-delayed projects.
July is mostly taken up by a lengthy trip to Russia (yes, again!) to teach in Perm and Novosibirsk, traveling internally via trans-Siberian railroad! After some jet lag recovery time, I'll wind down the month with a trip to the Beau Monde writers' conference in New York City and my usual open Regency workshops.
June is hopefully going to be a quiet month. I'm doing my regular monthly workshops and a bit of blues DJing, plus a lovely Steampunk weekend at a Catskills resort, but mostly I am staying home to take care of various non-dance matters, try to catch up on my writing, and prepare for yet another lengthy trip to Russia.
Sometime this month there is likely to be a crowdfunding campaign, too! Want to help?
Lots of fun ahead in May! I'll spend the early part of the month in Moscow teaching an experimental new class in 16th century improvisation at the Anno Domini festival before heading back home for a Regency ball and then to Boston to spin some blues and back to New York City for some ragtime!
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Crazy, crazy, crazy April! I'll be spending some time in Chicago again plus a couple of weekends in New York/New Jersey. In between I have Research Hibernation Time and an open series of cross-step waltz classes before leaving on the 29th for another trip to Russia! Catch me if you can!
I still have some details and links to add, but here's the basic schedule:
TL;DR version: Regency, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Regency, Regency, Regency, Waltz.
I'll be adding more links and details over the next few days, but here's the general plan for March, featuring my exciting Russian whistle-stop tour!
Things start getting busy in mid-February before building up to my absolutely crazy March!
I've now added to Kickery the oft-requested calendar of my workshops and events past the current month; check the Gig Calendar for upcoming events from March onward!
Happy New Year!
Having basically failed to stay home quietly and write in December, I'm going to try again in late January, with two weeks of a mostly-clear schedule at the end of the month. Other than that, I'm slowly picking up my travel schedule again with the usual New York and Boston routine before it starts getting really crazy in February and March!
An open cross-step waltz class and possibly another couple of minor workshops will be added to this schedule; details TBA. Not until February!
This month is going to be a bit more donut-shaped schedulewise than I’d originally planned: Regency at the beginning, a couple of weeks to try to finish some major writing work, then a week or so of research travel and DJing before I get to actually collapse for a week!
Here’s the schedule so far, with one or two potential things still pending:
November starts out crazy with New York, Boston, and Gettyburg trips the first three weekends and then calms down at the end of the month as I get a head start on my holiday research/writing period by hibernating over Thanksgiving weekend.
Here are the details so far, with potential blues DJing still TBD now with added blues DJing:
Most of this month will be relatively quiet time at home getting ready for my annual Regency Assembly and doing workshops in preparation for that. At the end of the month I'll be traveling south to Baltimore/Washington and North Carolina, then will be home to start a series of regular weekly waltz workshops. No blues DJing this month, alas!
A few details are still to be worked out, but here's the overall schedule:
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Susan de Guardiola, Social Dance Historian
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