Description: Denver English Country Dance - April 26th | all dances taught and walked through - no partner or previous experience needed. These are the Victorian and Regency era community dances you saw in the Jane Austen movies.
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Mr. Beverage's Maggott, as danced in Pride & Prejudice, 1995
from the February 2018 English Country Dance
It was proposed that we should have another dance this night and Blake and Perkins, a couple of young fellows, both strangers in town, undertook to be managers. We drank tea, a number of us, at Mr. Caleb Thaxter's, and, at about seven, went again to Mrs. Derby's hall, where a partition between two chambers had been taken down, which made it much more convenient than it was the night before. There were about thirty gentlemen and forty ladies; about twenty couple could stand up at once, and the rest amuse