Susan's early ragtime/Edwardian workshops

May: Susan will teach a waltz and two-step workshop for The Elegant Arts Society in New York City on May 6, 2007.

Also in May: Susan will precept the "Just So Ball", a 1907 ball in honor of the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Rudyard Kipling for The Elegant Arts Society in New Haven, Connecticut, on May 19, 2007 as part of the 1907 Centennial Dance Weekend.


Turn of the Century Two-Step
The dance for Sousa and Joplin tunes, the two-step was the dance rage of the late 1890's and early 1900's. Basic two-step, reverse turns, and easy variations such as the Glide Two-Step, Military Two-Step, Tres Chic, and Tantivy.

The New Waltz
The basics of the new waltz in its gliding and leaping versions; also, variations such as the Metropole, Bowdoin, Gavotte Glide, and Polka Dot Waltz. May also include reversing and sequences such as the Rye Waltz or the Veleta.

The Pasadena
Lively waltz galop-based dance from 1900 created to dislodge the two-step from the ballroom. Prior couple dance experience required.