Have you watched any movies based on Jane Austen’s novels and wondered how the dancers knew how to move around each other in patterns – often while carrying on a civil conversation? We’d like to help you get in the Jane Austen spirit by introducing you to English Country dance. We hope you’ll agree that it’s so much fun, you won’t want to miss the May 4, 2008 Ball at the Cutler Ballroom.
We are providing a series of short beginner oriented classes that will start with the basics of figures and style and progress gradually through learning some easy dances, including some that will be on the Ball program..
Dates: eight Sunday afternoons: Feb. 24, Mar. 2, 9, 16 & 30, Apr. 6, 13 & 20, 2008) from 3:00 to 4:30 pm. The March 30 class will include a workshop on dance clothing of the Regency period.
Location: room 9 of the education wing of the First Baptist Church, 175 Allens Creek Road, Rochester, NY 14618 (corner of Allens Creek and Clover St).
Instructors: Pat Hanley and Richard Sauvain
Cost: $30 for the eight week series, or $5 each for individual sessions. While attendance at the whole series is recommended, we want to accomodate those who can't make them all, so come to as many as you like.
Questions: call Richard at 585-442-4681.
Flyer: click here for a printable PDF of our flyer.
| "It may be possible to do without dancing entirely... but when a beginning is made - when the felicities of rapid motion have once been though slightly, felt - it is impossible not to ask for more" Jane Austen | |
| "One cannot dance well unless one is completely in time with the music, not leaning back to the last step or pressing forward to the next step as it comes. Perfect poise on the beat is what gives good dancing its sense of ease, of timeliness, of the eternal…” Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |