Name: Historical Dancing: Titanic to the Talkies
Start: 2025-09-23T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-23T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Allerton Park and Retreat Center

Learn about the high-energy dances that dominated the early 20th century at Historical Dancing: Titanic to the Talkies on Tuesdays, Sept. 23 through Oct. 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Mansion Library.
Instructor Jeanette Watts will help students explore the one step, castle walk, tango, foxtrot, Charleston, black bottom and other delights of early jazz.
In this era between about 1912 to 1930, the music was so infectious it required new kinds of dancing to go with it. Ragtime took over ballrooms with dances that shocked as well as delighted, while syncopated rhythms turned into the jazz of the Roaring Twenties. Meanwhile, Rudolph Valentino’s movie tango kept ballroom dancers like Vernon and Irene Castle popular.
A bar will be provided.
$110/person for the entire series or $25/class. Register at https://allerton.illinois.edu/events/historical-dancing-titanic-to-the-talkies/. Registration will close Sept. 16 or one week prior to each class, or when capacity is reached. All sales are final.
If you will need disability-related accommodations to participate, please email Olivia Bunting at [email protected].
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