MAKE A DONATION Your tax-deductible donation will help support ongoing projects and low-cost public events hosted by The Historical Tea & Dance Society, a 501c3 educational nonprofit, which strives to make historical & English Country dance available to all. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ To make a specific FRIENDSHIP FUND DONATION please use this button: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2nd, 4th & 5th TUESDAYS DANCING in PASADENA HISTORICAL & ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCING FOR ALL LEVELS Beginners welcome! Skandia Hall, Pasadena UPCOMING DANCES: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER for our OCTOBER 10th dance Please click HERE to contact us or join our mailing list for announcements.

The Historical Tea & Dance Society is delighted to present our annual favorite “three-for-one” afternoon! Sunday, October 8th, 2023 Dancing & Tea with caller/choreographer Alan Winston Featuring music by Jeffrey Spero, Audrey Knuth Jaber, and Anna Patton Our guest Alan Winston has been devising and creatively interpreting country dances for nearly 30 years, and has been lucky enough to collaborate with some fabulous composers. His choreography is informed by his knowledge not only of English country, contra dance, and Scottish dance as done today, but of historic sources for Regency and Victorian dance. Along with three musicians who are considered some of the best in the country, it will be an afternoon not to miss! * This event funded in part through a grant from the Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS.org). SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY: 2:00pm: Doors open for our CHALLENGING session 2:30pm: CHALLENGING Session (Complicated dances, fast paced, “For Those Who Know” style dances) 4:00pm: TEA TALK FOR ALL! All are welcome to attend! Enjoy tea and scones during Alan's Tea Talk 5:00pm: ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE FOR ALL! session 7:00pm: Hall closes LOCATION: The Woman's Club of South Pasadena 1424 Fremont Ave (Corner of Fremont Ave and Rollin St. Street parking only.) REGISTRATION & More information: CLICK HERE LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE. Please let us know if you need to cancel so that we may invite any waitlisted friends. As always, our Friendship Fund Dance Scholarships are available for this event. We believe in making dancing available for all. If a dance scholarship would help you be able to afford our events, please reach out to us! Alan Winston, Jeffrey Spero, and Audrey Knuth Jaber were all guests on our "5 Things... Inside the Dancing Mind of..." Web Show. You can watch their talks, along with many others, here on our 5 Things Web Show page. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TUESDAY DANCING IN PASADENA! 2nd, 4th, & 5th Tuesday Historical & English Country Dancing 7:15–9:30pm Skandia Hall 2031 E Villa St, Pasadena, CA 91107 Doors open at 7pm. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = BEGINNERS WELCOME! NO PARTNER NEEDED! COSTUMES ARE NOT REQUIRED! = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Join us for Historical and English Country dancing. Love Jane Austen, Bridgerton, The Gilded Age, and other historical movies and events? You will love Tuesday nights in Pasadena where we teach dances from history on into modern times. This dance style is alive and growing! It is an exciting world of upbeat dances to joyous tunes and also lovely slower moving dances to unexpected music that will surprise and delight. We welcome beginners to come and experience what this world of balls and tea dances is all about and how much fun it is. Costumes are not worn to our casual Tuesday night dances. Come join us on the dance floor, make new friends, get a little exercise mid-week at our Tuesday night dances! Arrive on time as we jump right into easy dancing. We will have you up and happily “footing it” in no time at all. PLEASE NOTE: > Registration and high quality masks (N95, KN95, KF94 or similar) are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED for our dances. < > Vaccination is not required for these events. < NEXT DANCE DATES: October 10th October 24th October 31st CLICK HERE TO REGISTER for our OCTOBER 10th dance P.S. If our dates and links haven’t updated yet, just email us for the link. We are a group of volunteers and don’t always remember what we’ve forgotten about. We dance (almost) EVERY 2nd, 4th, and 5th Tuesday! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FRIENDSHIP FUND DANCE SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE Our Friendship Fund is available for all Historical Tea & Dance Society events and can even be extended to new dancers trying out our events for the first time. Our community believes that dancing should be available for all. If you, or a friend you know, would be served by a Friendship Fund Scholarship, please reach out. The Friendship Fund also offers STUDENTS a “bring a friend for free” pass. Just ask at the door! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “5 Things... Inside the Dancing Mind of...” Web Chats A 1-hour chat with leading artists, teachers, and experts from the English Country Dance community across the continent! Though we no longer have a regular monthly schedule, stay tuned as we still have a few shows in the works and will announce dates as they become available.. (Follow link to connect to all the past 5 Things guest talks we’ve had since March 2020.) CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION regarding our 5 Things web chats ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Still in the works... An HTDS Callers Workshop LEARN TO CALL DANCES! The skills you learn enhance your dancing on many levels. Email us to get on our list to be notified about this upcoming workshop. Reach out to us at historicalteaanddance at gmail or Facebook messenger. Stay tuned as progress is being made. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP TO RECEIVE MORE DETAILS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OUR THANKS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS WHO HAVE BEEN A PART OF 14 SUCCESSFUL YEARS OF GREAT EVENTS both LIVE and online! YOU make all the difference to years of wonderful memories and more in the making. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/HistoricalTeaAndDanceSociety