Susan's late Victorian/Belle Epoque workshops
April: Susan will be teaching two Victorian dance workshops and
precepting a formal ball at Cape
May Vintage Dance Weekend, April 28-29, 2007, in beautiful Cape May, New Jersey.
August: Susan will be teaching beginning 19th century dance
at Newport
Vintage Dance Week with Antonia Pugliese. Material will include
waltz, polka, schottische, and galop.
This fall: Susan will teach three mid- to late Victorian era
dance workshops for The Elegant
Arts Society in New York City! Details are still to be
determined, but the class dates are September 9, October 7, and
November 4, 2007.
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.
Late Schottische Variations
Starting with the basic late 19th-century schottische and looking at
some of the elaborate variations created by dancing masters of the
last twenty years of the century (selected from: Star Schottische,
Military Schottische, Gavotte, Loomis New Gavotte, Pas Saute, etc.)
Polka & Galop (1 hour)
Basic nineteenth-century polka and galop and easy variations such as the
Esmerelda and Bohemian.