JAFA 2013 dance
program
Friday
9:15-10:30 The
Country Dance—I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and
complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not chuse
to dance or marry themselves, have no business with the partners or wives of
their neighbours (Northanger Abbey, 1817)
11:00-12:15 The
Cotillion and Quadrille—Much obliged for the quadrilles, which I am
grown to think pretty enough, though of course they are very inferior to the
cotillions of my own day. (Jane
Austen to Fanny Knight, 20 February, 1816).
1:30-2:45 The Reel—Do you not feel a great
inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel? (Pride and Prejudice, 1813)
3:15-4:30 The Minuet—I can neither sing so well nor dance so gracefully as I once did—and I
have entirely forgot the Minuet de la Cour (Love and
Freindship, 1790)
Saturday
9:15-10:30 Essentials
for capital dancing—What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr.
Darcy!—There is nothing like dancing after all.—I consider it as one of the
first refinements of polished societies (Pride
and Prejudice, 1813)
11:00-12:15 The
Finishing dances—We dined at Goodnestone, and in the evening danced two
country-dances and the Boulangeries.
(Jane Austen to Cassandra, 5 September, 1796)
1:30-2:45 The
Allemande and Waltz—Mrs. Weston, capital in her country- dances,
was seated, and beginning an irresistible waltz ; and Frank Churchill, coming up with most becoming
gallantry to Emma, had secured
her hand, and led her up to the top (Emma, 1816)
3:15-4:30 More
Cotillions and Quadrilles
7:30-11:30 The Grand
Napoleonic Ball—It may be possible to do without dancing entirely.
Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months
successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material
injury accrue either to body or mind;—but when a beginning is made—when the
felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt—it must be a
very heavy set that does not ask for more.
(Emma, 1816)
Sunday
1:30-5:00 Jane Austen
House party—he
was lively and unreserved, danced every dance, was angry that the ball closed
so early, and talked of giving one himself at Netherfield. Such amiable
qualities must speak for themselves (Pride
and Prejudice, 1813)
7:30-10:30 The
Cotillion Ball—Shall you be at
the Cotillion ball tomorrow? (Northanger Abbey, 1797, published
1818)
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