EVENT: Dances of Vice "Le Sacre du Printemps" Ball Dances of Vice celebrates the arrival of spring in a festive ball on the day of the Vernal Equinox, featuring the music flourishes of FERN KNIGHT and LUCAS LANTHIER, Nijinsky-inspired theatrical dance art by neo-baroque group COMPANY XIV, the theatrical debut of MISTER BURTON's absurdist comedy of Victorian mouring, "Madame Theodora", and special guests The ROYAL BARITARIAN PLAYERS. The ball will also feature fairy tale fashion displays by the Libertine Asylum Collective (BLASPHEMINA'S CLOSET - APATICO - MEGAN MAUDE), and avant-garde designer KRISTIN COSTA. Victorian/Regency ballroom dance instruction and additional guests to be confirmed. TICKET PRE-SALE TO BEGIN IN FEBRUARY 2009.
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AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: The lethargy of winter dissipates at the promise of spring, a time of rebirth, renewal, celebration, and maiden abductions. Above illustration by Fyodor Pavlov |
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DRESS CODE: Victorian, Edwardian, Renaissance, Baroque, Paganistic, Carnevale - or formal evening attire. Red (blood/sacrifice) and green (life/nature) are the colors of this festival. Decorate your hair with budding twigs, flowers, willow catkins, sprouting bulbs, horns and antlers. Honor various spring deities with their blossoms: Narcisus and Hyacinth, the red anemone for Adonis, violets for Attis, roses an lillies, &c. As the Vernal Equinox is also an important day of the faerie kingdom, in which the faeries move their kingdom to a different location in the world, costumes inspired by fairies, birds, beasts, and beings of myth is also encouraged. MUSIC: Baroque, Renaissance, Folk, Neofolk, Medieval, and Neoclassical.
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  Mister Burton - Lucas Lanthier |
