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| Regency Dance | John Hertz, Dancemaster |
On Friday afternoon, Bucconeer will have English Regency
ballroom dancing in the Hilton and Towers hotel. Come in period clothing if you like
(around the year 1800). Wear a hall costume (the science fiction and fantasy clothes fans
wear to wander the halls of a convention). Until you’ve done the Figure of Eight with
a five-foot-tall furry orange cat, you haven’t lived. Or come as you are. I’ll
be there to teach everyone.
Probably it’s Georgette Heyer’s fault. This 20th century Englishwoman wrote three dozen Regency romances— witty, satirical, historically accurate—that resonate with the fannish sence of whimsy. Try Arabella (1949), A Civil Contract (1961), or Cotillion (1953).
By the 1960’s, fans were holding Heyer Teas. In the 1970’s, I was addicted to Heyer by Fuzzy Pink Niven and Mary Jane Jewell, and I either volunteered or was volunteered—I had drunk a lot of eggnog—to reconstruct and teach the dances, which have became a fixture at major SF conventions.
Do please join us, especially if you’re at least reasonably
frivolous.
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