Regency Dance School - with Dr John Gardiner-Garden
Sociable and fun workshops from 9.15am - 4.30pm learning regency dances with live music from Sally Taylor and Charlotte Fletcher. No experience or partner necessary but smooth, low-heeled shoes desirable. Period costume welcome. Cold drinks and biscuits provided.
Friday 19 April 2013
9:15-10:30 The Country Dance—I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not chuse to dance or marry themselves, have no business with the partners or wives of their neighbours (Northanger Abbey, 1817)
11:00-12:15 The Cotillion and Quadrille—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 to Fanny Knight, 20 February, 1816).
1:30-2:45 The Reel—Do you not feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel? (Pride and Prejudice, 1813)
3:15-4:30 The Minuet—I can neither sing so well nor dance so gracefully as I once did—and I have entirely forgot the Minuet de la Cour (Love and Freindship, 1790)
Saturday 20 April 2013
9:15-10:30 Essentials for capital dancing—What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy!—There is nothing like dancing after all.—I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies (Pride and Prejudice, 1813)
11:00-12:15 The Finishing dances—We dined at Goodnestone, and in the evening danced two country-dances and the Boulangeries. (Jane Austen to Cassandra, 5 September, 1796)
1:30-2:45 The Allemande and Waltz—Mrs. Weston, capital in her country- dances, was seated, and beginning an irresistible waltz ; and Frank Churchill, coming up with most becoming gallantry to Emma, had secured her hand, and led her up to the top (Emma, 1816)
3:15-4:30 More Cotillions and Quadrilles
