Saturday, October 18th, in New Haven, Connecticut we will have a night of Regency-era revelry with a masquerade ball in the style of Vauxhall Gardens, the famous pleasure gardens of early 19th century London!  This will be our twelfth annual Regency Assembly in New Haven.

Back in the saddle after a very productive (and mostly fun) trip to exciting places in August.  September puts me back into my usual teaching routine with classes in New York, Middletown, and Boston; a dance weekend in Chicago; and a side-trip to Canada for a private workshop and some off-the-grid time! 

I'm still working out my class schedule for the rest of this month, but here are the highlights.  Check back for a few new things toward the end of the month.

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August is vacation month, for my personal definition of vacation that involves a lot of time spent in libraries and talking about dance history and otherwise geeking out.  This is differs from my normal routine of a lot of time spent in libraries and talking about dance history in that the libraries are located and the conversations and geeking out will occur in exciting foreign countries.

The beginning of the month will have only my routine monthly workshops.  At the end of the month, I have scheduled five days of jet-lagged stupor.  Details of the former:

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This month I am staying home and writing a lot (or going somewhere else to alternate writing and swimming) then making one extended research trip before spending most of August far, far away.  Check back for possible added DJ gigs, but don't expect anything else this month.  I am hibernating, socially speaking.

I have so, so, so much to do before I leave that at five-plus weeks out I am already in a pre-trip panic.

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After some welcome downtime at home, I'm back on the road in June with two trips each to New York City and Massachusetts, but keeping a light schedule since I have a rather enormous amount of writing to do this month.  A couple more DJ gigs may pop onto the schedule at some point, but here's how it stands for now:

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After a perfectly crazy April, I am devoting most of May to staying home and catching up on research and writing as I wind up my fellowship year.  I'm looking forward to sleeping in my own bed, and my cats will be ecstatic!

By some weird coincidence, all of my gigs this month are Regency-era, though I might tag on something else if the opportunity arises.  Here's the calendar:

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April is going to be a crazy month for me, with a slow start, then three weeks of near-constant travel to New York, Boston, Chicago, New York (again), and Toronto!  Regency everywhere, a little bit of waltz, blues DJing in Boston, and a fancy dress ball in New York City!

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I'm going to spend large parts of June on fellowship-related research work, so my public gig schedule is very light this month.  The schedule as it currently stands now is below.  DJ gigs appear on my schedule somewhat randomly, so check back for those!

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Along with my usual monthly classes, this month I'll be calling for a Regency-era ball with an American theme and making a trip down south to teach waltz in North Carolina before making my way slowly back up the east coast.  The schedule as it stands now is below.  As usual, I add DJ gigs to my schedule somewhat randomly, so check back to see when those appear.

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April will be a crazy travel month for me, flitting between Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York repeatedly over the course of the month.  The schedule as it stands now is below.  I tend to add DJ gigs to my schedule at the relative last minute, so check back to see when those appear.

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March is going to be a very quiet month for me.  I'm clearing my calendar of most outside gigs for the last couple of weeks of the month to work on some writing and reviewing projects.

I tend to add DJ gigs to my schedule at the relative last minute, so check back to see when those appear!

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I’m staying warm this winter with lots of travel and dance, including our first Connecticut Regency tea dance and DJ gigs in three cities!  I’m still adding gigs, but here’s the February schedule so far:

Edited to add: note that my February 10th & 12th Regency events in Connecticut have been moved to February 17th & 26th, respectively, due to the enormous snowstorm of February 8-9th.

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Happy new year!  I'm back on the road again in New York, Connecticut, and Boston this month after my holiday break:

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Things are calming down for the end of the year here!  Just a few gigs this month, though I'm still happy to give private lessons betwixt and between:

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This is going to be a wild month of travel for me, starting off in beautiful Saint Petersburg, Russia, then ricocheting up and down the northeastern United States for a few weeks:

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