Guy Fawkes Adventure
with Susan Worland
Thursday, November 5, 2020
7:00-8:30pm EDT
Online via Zoom – To benefit the Folk Arts Center of New England
Remember, remember, the 5th of November!
Susan Worland, fiddler extraordinaire, presents a Guy Fawkes Adventure! In Britain Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated as Bonfire Night; on November 5 crowds gather to eat, drink, and socialize outdoors with friends. Susan will give us some history and play some music, then move on to a few of the tasty foods and beverages that might be enjoyed at a Guy Fawkes Day bonfire.
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Richard Powers
CanCan and Apache Tango Storytelling Reprise
An afternoon of dynamic historical storytelling, a reprise of Richard’s popular session of last month
Thursday, November 12, 2020 – 7-9pm EST
Online via Zoom
To benefit the Folk Arts Center of New England
We’ll travel across the ocean to Paris and discover the Parisian social dance CanCan (danced by partnered couples, not the later stage one by chorines). This wild and crazy story of the outdoor dance gardens of Paris, Carnival time rule-breaking, and emerging women’s emancipation passes by quickly as one admires the sleuthing of Richard Powers and his dynamic lectures, illustrated with 400 images from that time, and a video.
Then we’ll stay in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century, when the Argentine tango is introduced to Paris, and meets Paris’ kindred spirit, the Apache dance. The Apache is truly one of the most bizarre partnered dances in history. The less said now, the better. You’ll be surprised!
Richard Powers is a full-time instructor in dance history and contemporary social dance forms at Stanford University Dance Division, Department of Theater and Performance Studies. His principal focus since 1975 has been social dance forms, from the Renaissance to today. Specializations include 19th century American and European social dance, dances of the Ragtime Era and Jazz Ages, and currently evolving vernacular dance forms.
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