Eddie Izzard and regency dancing
Sadly, all these two things have in common is that the first is keeping me from the second -- I have tix to the Izzard show this Saturday night \o/, and therefore I cannot be at the Regency Assembly at the 92nd St Y. But I wanted to tout it to any of you in the NYC area, selfishly, in hopes it will be a great success and there will be another one I can go to!

There's a workshop from 7-8, then a ball from 8:30 - 11:30, and you get to dress up either in period or formal wear (this is a selling point for me, as I hold there are never enough opportunities to get dressed up) and have period refreshments. Spare Parts (who do a lovely Regency Ballroom CD) are playing, and Susan de Guardiola (who ran the fantastically fun regency dancing at Balticon this year) will be calling the dancing -- she did an amazing job of teaching a roomful of people (most of whom, yours truly included, had not a clue what they were doing) how to do a whole bunch of regency dances.

So if you are in range, whether you are into the period or into interesting dancing, you should totally go and have fun, and I am only sorry I am missing it, though excited to partake of cake or death.