Tea Dance Success!

[marcmagus]

The tea dance was a lot of fun. It looked like we had a couple dozen dancers, and the quality of dancers was quite high. This was certainly aided by three friends of mine from the Scottish Country Dance community allowing me to badger them into coming. All of my friends who came tell me they enjoyed themselves, so I count this as a success.

Dances included a few country dances, a Swedish dance, four figures of the famous Caledonian Quadrille, the Country Bumpkin (for 9 dancers and a hat!), and Moneymusk.

The other day I talked about facial hair in a Regency context and quoted Beau Brummell on the topic. I had been planning to go in with a more normal beard + mustache combination, but was convinced to go ahead and attempt to duplicate the style he was describing. I'm not sure my facial hair grows in in the correct pattern to do it justice, but I tried. Further research is probably called for if I ever decide to attempt this again, which I probably won't.

I hope people appreciate that I signed up for Flickr just so I'd have a place to upload these pictures, and also the effort kdsorceress and I went through to take them. We took a few before the dance, but the memory card in my camera failed and we had to try again afterward. This explains any imperfections in my hair.

Enjoy the photos of me looking silly at regency 2009-02-08

With any luck, photos will become available of people dancing at the event, but I didn't get any.

Comments

[aetherexplorer.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you posted pictures! It's amazing how different you look with Beau Brummel-esque facial hair than you do normally. Strange...
Also, I just finished an epic discussion on Regency House Party, which is kind of your life (and mine) sometimes.
Glad the tea dance went well! Maybe next year I can go o.O