Welcome to newsletter
number two, JAFA 15
More updates on festival services. Remember if you would
like to have something mentioned, or know someone who does, just email your
copy to the JAFA volunteer editor (TM) : editor@janeaustenfestival.com.au
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See http://janeaustenfestival.com/about/jafa-2015/ for festival details and a guide to accommodation available. You can also follow JAFA 15 on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JaneAustenFestival
See http://janeaustenfestival.com/about/jafa-2015/ for festival details and a guide to accommodation available. You can also follow JAFA 15 on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JaneAustenFestival
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FOOD and COFFEE
Some important news. Update on food vendors - The Chameleon
Icecreamery will be serving their delicious homemade icecream and pancakes.
Standby for hours.
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Here’s the coffee http://www.heresthecoffee.com.au/ will
be selling their delicious organic
coffees and beverages, along with other food items – more details to come.
Costumes by Adrienne
Some of you will remember Adrienne Unger, trading as
Costumes by Adrienne. In 2012 she gave a presentation on making a gown from a
sari, and in 2013, a workshop on Regency sleeves. She is offering a dress
making service, with delivery at JAFA. Her creations can be viewed on her Face
Book page, Costumes and Beautiful Frocks .
She will have new gowns and possibly other items of clothing
to sell. If anyone wants to order ahead of time – standard sizes preferred for
delivery at the beginning of the festival , please contact Adrienne on ungera@bigpond.net.au or
phone her mobile 0419 180 671.
Sewing Workshops :
Pre Festival costume preparation
Beginner/Intermediate Regency Bodiced Petticoat Sewing Class - no need to
wear a bra, corset or stays under your regency gown! This boned, front opening
petticoat will do the job.6 x Thursday nights, 7pm – 9pm, starting Thursday 12 February 2015. Some home work will be required during the course.
Materials needed: sewing machine, needles, pins and fabric cutting scissors. Pattern, fabric and sewing thread provided. Participants need to know how to use their sewing machine before the class and have a standard and zipper foot. Hand sewing will be required at times.
Enrol and pay in advance. Because we pre-purchase & pre-wash class supplies we cannot offer refunds but you can transfer your enrolment to someone else.
Class limited to 5 participants. Enrol now at http://www.earthlydelights.com.au/historic-costume/Classes
JAFA 15 - The
Festival dance schedule
Just released by Dr John Gardiner-Garden, Dancing Master to
the Quality
JAFA
2015 DANCE PROGRAM
Dancing
to Battle!
Social dancing
features very prominently in Jane Austen’s novel, as it did in life at the
time, and people coming this JAFA will understand why. The fun we will all
experience on the sprung wooden floor at our new grand and historic Albert Hall
venue (a Bath away from home), is only part of the answer. The rest of the
answer is in Pride and Prejudice: ‘To be fond of dancing was a certain
step towards falling in love’ and ‘There is nothing like dancing after all.—I
consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies’.
In Emma is the answer for why we all keep
coming back to dance at JAFA: ‘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.’
Indeed, it’s at
dances that people met and learnt something special about each other (and
indeed, it’s in the course of country dances in Pride and Prejudice that
we learn of Elizabeth’s feelings for Wickham, Darcy and Mr Collin). In so many Austen letters and novels we
also find references to cotillions, quadrilles, minuets and finishing dances
such as La Boulangere.
In April 2015
we’ll enjoy all the different dance forms Austen refers or alludes to in her
writings—dance forms that were being enjoyed right across western Europe in her
day, and as we will be making a special feature of the 200th
anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, we will be making a special feature of
country dances that marked that and other battles of the Napoleonic wars, of
fun dances in the fabulously popular ‘English style’ not only from English
manuals but from contemporary French, German, Italian—and even Latvian and
Russian manuals.
To get us in and
out of all the fabulous music and dance being enjoyed at the time the Earthly
Delights Historic Dance Academy players will be sharing the stage with the
fabulous professional and award-winning wind trio Aeolus, led by Canberra arts
institution David Whitbread, who will be bringing us a sound very close to that
of small c.1800 ball ensembles and playing for our dancing pleasure lots of
beautiful French bal music and
perhaps all 12 of Beethoven’s famous contredanses.
The exact program
and guest calling spots is still to be finalised but a rough plan is as
follows:
FRIDAY
10 APRIL—with dances mostly
from the late 18th century.
Friday 9.15-10.30:
The Georgian era country dance—dances for the evening Pleasures.
Friday
11.00-12.30: The Cotillion—the craze that spread from France across Europe, to England and beyond.
Friday
1.30-3.00: Dances in big formations—period fun in squares and rectangles for 12
and 16 dancers.
Friday
3.30-5.00: Couples dances of the late 18th Century–the revered minuet and the knotty
allemande.
Friday
6.30 for 7:00-11.00: GEORGIAN PLEASURES EVENING
In between eating and joining in on lots of led-dancing from the late 18th century, enjoy a smorgasbord of guest performers—from those offering baroque ballets to Charlotte Kerr who brought the house down with her brilliant Friday evening finale at JAFA 2014. Come in Georgian or Regency attire, imagine you are at Bath and enjoyed the theatre, card rooms, supper and ballrooms all combined!
In between eating and joining in on lots of led-dancing from the late 18th century, enjoy a smorgasbord of guest performers—from those offering baroque ballets to Charlotte Kerr who brought the house down with her brilliant Friday evening finale at JAFA 2014. Come in Georgian or Regency attire, imagine you are at Bath and enjoyed the theatre, card rooms, supper and ballrooms all combined!
SATURDAY
11 APRIL— with dances mostly
from the early 19th century.
9:00-10:30: Essentials
for ‘capital dancing’—country dances for the evening ball
11:00-12:30: Dances
in different formations—mixers, reels and show-off dances:
1:30-3:00: Latest longways crazes—the Ecossaise, Spanish, Swedish and
Mescolanze
3:30-5:00: Couples
dances of the early 19th century—the waltz, polonaise and
mazurka.
6.30 for
7:00-11.00: THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
BALL
In the
venue the Duchess of Richmond would have loved to have had, enjoy all the
dances previewed in the daytime workshops —all dances enjoyed at the time with
many linked to the Napoleonic wars and its protagonists. In tribute to the
European context and in a first for JAFA, enjoy some brackets dancing to Aeolus
wind trio playing Beethoven contredanses.
To end we might have Aeolus and the EDHDA players combine to offer you an
opportunity to dance a wild Scottish reel before leaving for battle!
SUNDAY
12 APRIL—with dance from late
18th and early 19th century
2.00-6.00:
THE COTILLION BALL—the
shifting alliances of the late 18th and early 19th
century and that long dance party that was the Congress of Vienna has spread
dance crazes in all directions—so mixed in with country dances led from the
floor in English Regency manner callers will be lively Paris opera style cotillions,
newly fashionable quadrilles and other dances of the sort that might have
enjoyed at the ‘Cotillion Ball’ Austen referred to in her writings—all taught
and led for all! The EDHDA players are again joined by Aeolus wind trio. A fun finale to the dance program.
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