Jane Austen Society Florence

Jane Austen Society Florence is an association founded by event organiser, costume designer and dancer Margarita Martinez in 2008. Together with Atelier de Danse, Florence, they hold an annual Jane Austen and/or Napoleonic Ball open to international guests, faithfully reproducing a Ball from that period; dancing, music, orchestration, buffet, clothes, manners, games and culture.
Dances performed are: the menuet (1810), quadrilles, contredanses françaises, contredanses anglaises, cotillons, ecossaises and waltzes (1810),