Steampunk "Edwardian Ball" in LA (video)

Mark Day shares with us a video of he shot of the Los Angeles incarnation of the Edwardian Ball, at the historic Music Box theater. Mark explains that the event included

...music from Rosin Coven, "guerrilla street ballet" from Maggie Powers, accompanied by Mereith Yanyanos of Coilhouse, and a spectacular staging of Edward Gorey's The Eleventh Episode, by San Francisco's Vau de Vire Society. Plus a reasonably sprinkling of steampunk togs and millinery.

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• [Anonymous]

  quite a bit of skin for anything Victorian themed wouldn’t you say?

• [Random_Tangent]

  So many of my friends in that video. I probably should have gone.

• [WA]

  Considering that there’s a significant historical dance community in Los Angeles, I’ve always been disappointed at this group’s insistence on calling themselves the “Edwardian Ball” despite having essentially no connection to the Edwardian era, little dancing if any, and to the best of my knowledge, no Edwardian-era dancing at all.

  Does anyone there even waltz? Redowa? One-step?

  • [SFSlim]

    It’s a shame you’ve spent any time disappointed, when the briefest of Google queries would reveal that the event (a many-year tradition here in San Francisco, where it originated) takes its name not from the Edwardian era, but from the late illustrator and author Edward Gorey.

    http://edwardianball.com/about

    Much as in Los Angeles, we have an active and diverse ballroom and historic dance community in the San Francisco Bay Area, with events like the Gaskell ball and numerous others. However, with their focus on period dance and costume, none of these events elicit the incredible explosion of creativity that surrounds the Edwardian Ball every year.

    Ignore your misinterpretation of the name, and go to enjoy the spirit and pageantry of the thing.

  • [SFSlim]

    http://edwardianball.com/about

• [Mark Day]

  There was more waltzing on show at the San Francisco incarnation earlier this year (seen about 30 seconds into this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSUries-U9w) and dancing of an assortment of styles throughout. The Edwardian name also refers to Edward Gorey, who’s works are staged annually.