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The Farms: Traveling Time Machine: Dancing in Illinois from Statehood to the 60s

Event Type
Social/Informal Event
Sponsor
Allerton Park & Retreat Center
Location
Allerton Park & Retreat Center - The Music Barn
Date
Mar 14, 2024   5:30 - 7:30 pm  
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Originating Calendar
Campus Wellbeing Services - All Wellness Events

Skill Level: All Levels

Use dancing to take a trip through time at Traveling Time Machine: Dancing in Illinois from Statehood to the 60s from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays between March 14 and April 18 in The Music Barn. Each week, popular dances of Illinois will be learned, starting with the ones that were in fashion in 1818 (think Jane Austen and Bridgerton…)

Each class will teach the basic skills, and some popular variations of the time so that attendees get a real feeling of what it was like to live and dance back then. Classes will include an hour of technique and a second hour of less intensive playtime, when you will apply the learned skills in the context of set dances of the time and have a chance to do at least one dance to review the material of the week before.

Not every week builds on the skills of the week before, depending upon the era being covered. The final class of this series will be a mid-century dance to showcase all the new steps you learned throughout the course.

$75/person for the entire series or $25/session. Register here by March 13 or one day prior to subsequent classes*. All sales are final.

Registration for the entire series is not required, but highly recommended.

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