The Bay Area English Regency and the Bay Area Country Dance Society present an informal mostly-Regency-era English dance in Palo Alto, Friday, October 10, 2025.
Alan Winston will lead the dancing. No particular theme tonight; we'll just do some fun dances.
Come dance in a friendly and supportive environment! We'll do an assortment of straightforward fun dances from the Regency and before and after. Any level of experience (including "None") welcome; casual dress, any willing pair can partner together. Dances will be called without gender reference.
Live music by Divertimento!
St. Mark's Episcopal Church. 600 Colorado Avenue (1.5 blocks off Middlefield), Palo Alto.
Doors 7:30, Dance 7:45-10:00 with breaks.
Admission $10, Supporter level $20, or what you can.
also
https://bacds.org/series/english/palo_alto_reg/ where the dance party calendar is updated regularly.
PLEASE NOTE
St. Mark's has raised our rent a bit and realized that they haven't been charging us for using their very nice piano, so our expenses are jumping up quite a bit - basically a 50% increase. [We're still not paying any staff.] I'd like to keep the door price low if we can; as an experiment I'd like to keep the official admission price $10 (or what you can) but people who'd like to support the dance and can afford it to give us $20; do that for a few months and then evaluate. (If you want to give us $15, you're welcome to, but we're not necessarily able to make change.
The regular caller is Alan Winston, the regular band is Divertimento under the direction of James Langdell.
(That's usually Paul Kostka, William Allen, sometimes Bill and Jeanette Langdell.) At balls it's the Divertimento Dance Orchestra.
BAERS dance dates for 2025
January 10: Dance Party, St. Mark's
February 8: Day of Dance with Susan de Guardiola
(Workshop 1: 1:30-3:00, Workshop 2: 3:30-5:00, dinner break, ball 6:30-10:00.)
February 14: Valentine's Day dance party, St. Mark's
March 14: Dance Party, St. Mark's
April 11: Dance Party, St. Mark's
May 9: Dance Party, St. Mark's
May 10: "Geometry Ball" at Alameda Masonic.
June 13: Dance Party, St. Mark's
July 11: Dance Party, St. Mark's. (Dance party takes a break in August.)
August 9: Saturday- An August Regency Ball in San Jose, 7:00-10:30ish (doors at 6:30). Coproduced with the Odd Fellows True Fellowship Lodge #52, at the Lodge's lovely ballroom, 1035 Emory Street, San Jose.
Registration is open via the Odd Fellows:
https://true52.org/mc-events/jane-austen-dance-2/
September 12: Dance Party, St. Mark's
October 10: Dance Party, St. Mark's
November 14: Last Dance Party of 2025 (may have guest caller)
We no longer require up-to-date vaccination (or any
vaccination) and you don't have to fill and sign an attestation. (You still should stay away if you feel sick, if you've tested positive within the last 10 days, if anyone at home feels sick or has tested positive within the last 10 days.)
Dancers are welcome to wear masks in the hall; we recommend N95 or better. Callers and musicians may remain unmasked while working.
Our charming venue is on the ground floor, has doors and windows that open, and there's pleasant outdoor seating for optionally-masked breaks.
We do not have a beginner lesson. We welcome newcomers by taking care to establish basic concepts in the earlier dances and building on them later in the evening. It's a very good idea to come on time.
(To locate the social hall, find the driveway with the St. Mark's sign at ground-level on the south side of Colorado, take that past the buildings on your right into the large parking lot. As you enter that, the social hall is on the right, with the entrance a couple of dozen feet from the curb, past an outdoor seating area.)
Hope to see you there!
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