Join us for an amazing weekend of vintage dancing with the world's leading dance historian and teacher, Richard Powers of Stanford University! As of October 10th, registration is full, but please feel free to register in case of cancellations. 

Registration is now open, but almost full! Click here to register. 

• All levels of experience welcome! Whether you've been a pro on Dancing with the Stars or this is your first time on the dance floor, this is the event for you. No prior dance experience is needed- seriously. 
•  Lead-up dance classes included! If you prefer to warm up with some Victorian basics before the weekend, we hold weekly dance workshops on Tuesdays that will be included in the cost of the weekend. 
• Space will be limited to 25 leads and 25 follows! Registration will open October first. The workshops will be role-balanced. 

All workshops, lectures, dances, high tea, and Victorian Holiday ball with live music are included at the cost of $115! (Reduced student pricing available at $65)

Richard Powers is a dance historian and instructor at Stanford University. Richard's focus since 1975 has been the research and reconstruction of nineteenth and early twentieth century American and European social dance forms, working from a personal collection of 2,500 historic dance manuals. Founder of the Flying Cloud Academy of Dance in Cincinnati, and director of the first Vintage Dance Weeks, Richard has also choreographed for dozens of stage productions, operas, and films. Richard has taught historic dance workshops in Paris, Rome, London, Vienna, Prague, Venice, Geneva, Krakow, Edinburgh, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kirov, Tokyo, and Kyoto, as well as across the United States and Canada.

​Tentative Schedule — subject to change
Friday night- 4919 Court Drive, East Ridge, TN 37412
6–7pm Registration

7–10:00pm Dance Workshops

  1856 "Old Fashioned Sociable Cotillion" 
  Basley's Canon Galopade Quadrille 
  Easy variations done in both Waltz and Polka 
  Dodworth's Combination Polka

10:00-11:00pm Intro Dance Mixer - Richard Powers will be your DJ for the Dance

Saturday- 155 Depot Street, Ringgold, GA 30736
10am-1pm Dance Workshops

  1896 St. George's Waltz 
  1848 Martin's New Polka Quadrille, condensed version
  Schottische variations
  The Columbia 

1-2:00pm Catered Box Lunch —  available for purchase

2:15–4:15pm Dance Workshops

  1860 Tommy Polka 
  Five-Step Waltz Variations

5–7pm Dinner on your own

7–9:30 pm Victorian Christmas Ball  

Sunday- 4119 Cromwell Road, Chattanooga, TN 3721  
10:00am-11:00 am  Richard Powers Historical lecture 
11:00–12:30pm Tea
12:30–1:30pm Historical Train Ride (optional add-on for $15)