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| Aylwen |
 Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:27 pm |
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Jane Austen Festival Ball
Saturday 19 April 2008: 7:30-11:30pm, St John's Church Hall,
Constitution Ave, Reid, Canberra
There is to be a hot Regency-style meal from 6.00 pm, followed at
7.30pm by Regency period music and dancing with John Garden and the
band Earthly Delights.
Dances will all be lead in the Regency fashion and include both
favourites from the many Jane Austen novel screen adaptations, and
others, which though not yet featuring in any film, were all the rage
in her day. Regency costume is strongly encouraged so all attendees
can have a real 'stepping-back-in-time' experience and there will be a
grand mid-evening photo of all attendees. A professional photographer
will be taking photos through the evening that you may purchase and
take home with you. There will be free refreshments and gaming
throughout the evening.
Please bring potluck supper contribution for the 10pm Supper table.
We'll be conjuring a romantic period atmosphere with candle light, a
fully costumed band, and special guest offering interludes of songs at
a real piano.
We'll enjoy favourite dances from the movies (Tythe Pig, Mr
Beveridge's Maggot, Comical Fellow, Fair Maid of the Inn, Fete
Champetre, Happy Captive, Lasses of Portsmouth, Mutual Love, Pleasures
of the Town, Shrewbury Lasses, Touchstone, Trip to Highgate, Wakefield
Hunt, Young Widow), dances that go to tunes or songs hear in movies
(Auretti's Dutch Skipper, Emma's Song), other longways country dances
from the period (Duke of Kent's Waltz, Dutch Pins, Hull's Victory,
Money Musk, Prince William of Glou'cter's Waltz), and some of the
dance crazes of the day that have not yet featured in any Jane Austen
movies - namely, cotillions (we'll do La Strassbourgeoise), waltzing
(we'll do Thomas Wilson's 3 different ways of French Waltzing),
quadrilles (we'll do the very earliest forms of The First Set and the
Lancer's - different from the late 19th century dances), the Scotch
Reel (3 different variants from Regency sources), and simple period
finishing dances (La Boulangere, Sir Roger de Coverley).
For the full Jane Austen Festival program and to order tickets, please
visit http://www.earthlydelights.com.au/upcoming2.htm |
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