Mazurka at Gaskell's Victorian dance October 2006
Ye Gaskell Occasional Dance Society sponsors Victorian ballroom dances several times a year. There are afternoon dance lessons and refresher lessons before the dance. Formal dress.
http://www.gaskellball.com
Brassworks is a live brass band led by Frank Beau Davis. They sound much better in person than in this clip.
http://www.brassworksband.com
Scottish Rite Center in Oakland has a beautiful ballroom for this event.
http://www.scottish-rite.org
It´s the well-known folk-dance Varsovienne, known throughout Europe. There is indeed a version by Johann Strauss the Elder, one of his first compositions at all (Opus 10), but the tune came from Leipzig, ca. 1690 (!), when Saxony and Poland were united under August the Strong.
alpenfrauchen 2 years ago
I absolutley looove re-inacttment. This is wonderful~
2damfly 4 years ago