Come With Me to Fezziwig's Dance Party, Great Dickens Christmas Fair

Step back in time to a period when dancing was commonly done, an expected social skill, a way of connecting in an atmosphere of beauty and music. At San Francisco's Great Dickens Christmas Fair at the Cow Palace, you can enter the world of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol and revel in a Victorian London where it's always Christmas Eve and the streets resound with celebrations of the Season! Join me in getting dressed for Mr. Fezziwig's Dance Party, learning why Mr. Fezziwig is more relevant than ever, dancing at the party, and getting a brief overview of many of the Fair's activities.

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B Minor Waltz -- Free Royalty Free Music
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Horowitz plays Chopin Mazurka in D major, Op. 33 No. 2
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Image Credits:
1. A 19th century painting of the Ballroom in the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia. Tsar Alexander II can be seen sitting in the background, unknown artist.
2. The Dance After the Husking, by Winslow Homer, American, 1858
3. Couple at Ball, mid-19th century, unknown artist
4. Victorian Ball, unknown artist
5. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, title page of first edition, 1843.
6. Mr. Fezziwig's Ball, an illustration by John Leech for A Christmas Carol, 1843.
7. Then Old Fezziwig Stood Out to Dance with Mrs. Fezziwig, unknown illustrator
8. "Old Fezziwig, clapping his hands to stop the dance, cried out, 'Well done!'" by E. A. Abbey. American Household Edition (1876)
9. "Then Old Fezziwig Stood Out to Dance with Mrs. Fezziwig" by Arthur Rackham, 1915
10. Mr. Fezziwig’s Ball, wood engraving by Sol Eytinge from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Edition title: "A Christmas Carol in Prose: being a ghost story of Christmas", publisher: Ticknor and Fields (Boston), 1869, Diamond Edition.