I'm in Oxford with a group of GA Tech undergrads and the Prof who is teaching a Jane
Austen class has requested that I teach them a bunch of ECD from that era, things that
would really have been danced then. I don't have with me the resources I had available
in the states. I need a selection of maybe a dozen dances, and a resource from which to
give them interesting tidbits about etiquette, flirtation, the circumstances of a ball
such as chaperones, the necessity for an introduction before inter gender conversation
could occur, etc. I want something as authentic as possible, but they are all newbies and
I want them to have fun. Recommendations most welcome. I have a fiddler and a Barnes
book, and notes for a few dances and any I can glean from the web, unless one of my
esteemed colleagues loans them to me. I'm confident about the teaching part, it is
more a matter of what to present.
Thanks
Andrea
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