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19th Century Dance Week
18-21 April 2011

9.00am - 5pm

Victorian Era Dance Week

19th CENTURY DANCE WEEK
Monday 18 to Thursday 21 APRIL 2011, Canberra, Australia

Conveniently filling the 4 days between the 2011 Jane Austen Festival and Easter (with its National Folk Festival) will be a once-off opportunity for keen dancers to learn and enjoy 80 wonderful set and couples dances from the 1820s to 1880s and start to understand how dance evolved in that most romantic era.

Classes will run 9am to 5pm each day, and will be to live music (most notably, the outstanding 19th century salon-style piano playing of Sally Taylor).

Teaching will be by the passionate and knowledgeable Dr John Gardiner-Garden, who also plans to have available for perusal hundreds of original period dance books and prints, and have available for purchase 4 thick volumes of illustrated notes covering all the dances and techniques we'll be exploring.

The week (for a minimum of 16, maximum of 32, participants) will be held in an inner-Canberra venue (either our studio, St. John's Church Hall, or a combination, depending on numbers). 

The fee will cover morning/afternoon tea and lunch
(we are trying to make it easy for interstaters),
but by having it not include anything people choose to do after 5pm and
 leaving participants to organise their own socialising in the evening,
 we can keep the 4 days fee down to $120 for the first 12 enrolees, $160 thereafter.
(Please make sure to bring smooth preferably leather-soled dance shoes, as rubber soles do not work for this style of dancing.)

Click below to purchase tickets
Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy
0409 817 623 (02) 6281-1098    garden@earthlydelights.com.au

 

19th CENTURY DANCE WEEK 18-21 APRIL 2011
(9.00am-5.00pm)

 

Ticket Type
Regular
(until sold out)
Door
(not available)
$160
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ALL TICKETS INCLUDE CATERED LUNCH AND MORNING & AFTERNOON TEAS
(gluten/lactose free and vegetarian options available)


 

In the course of the 4 days we plan to travel roughly chronologically through dance in the (post Jane Austen) 19th century, devoting Monday to 1820-1850, Tuesday to 1850-1875, Wednesday to 1875-1900 and Thursday to completing the chronology if we get behind, filling gaps, revising and extending.

The pattern for each day will be
9:00-9:15am  Arrival and warm-ups
9:15-10:30am Dance class
10:30-11:00am Morning Tea
11:00-12:30am Dance class
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3:00pm Dance class
3:00-3:30pm Afternoon tea
3:30-4:45pm Dance class
4:45-5:00pm Wind-down

Each day will also include show & tells of relevant historic material.


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