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2024 JAD Performance: Following in the footsteps of Lord Byron on Grand Tour to Exile in Greece

CHOREOGRAPHY CREDITS: LIZ BARTLETT MUSIC CREDITS: BEAU'S BAND - PETER, LUCY JAMIE VIDEO: SHARON & HELEN Our 1824 – 2024 Performance: Following in the footsteps of Lord Byron, who passed in 1824. We’ve selected a dance from the Kingdom of Naples (Italy) by Magri 1779, as his choreographies, composed for balls at the court of Ferdinand IV of Naples, present a wide array of figures and represent Magri’s limitless imagination for choreography. Dance 39, originally for 32 dancers, was choreographed for a Royal Masquerade, in the style of a Grand March - hence our inclusion at the start of our 2024 Ball. Dancers were split into groups: ”to represent Nations, Seasons or Parts of the World”. Each group was: “dressed in colours, by which distinction a finer order will be observed, a more beautiful symmetry in the figurations, also allowing the liberty of selecting the colour as one pleases, as long as each is totally different to the other, in order to give with greatest distinction a more outstandingly beautiful effect” We’re draped in different “distinctive coloured” sashes / scarves – just like the Grecian goddess of Dance, ‘Terpsichore’ , that Byron would have seen on his Grand Tour(s). Enjoy! Liz Bartlett 2024 Our Annual Ball 2024: 1824/2024 Ball: The Jane Austen Dancers making The Grand Tour, following in the footsteps of Lord Byron, who passed in 1824 ~~~ George Byron, 6th Baron Byron “Mad, Bad & Dangerous to know”, son of Captain John Byron "Mad Jack Byron", great-nephew of William Byron, 5th Baron "Wicked Lord/Devil Byron". George Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 Jan 1788 – 19 Apr 1824) Our Regency-era Lord Byron enjoyed travel abroad - first on his Grand Tour and then when he fled England. For young Gentlemen of means, The Grand Tour was essential, as "foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman." (Edward Gibbon). And we’re just in time to follow in Lord Byron’s footsteps (after 1824, steam-powered transport makes The Grand Tour less-exclusive!), by including some internationally inspired dances - other countries are available, but we hope you’ll enjoy our selection! 1 The 1670 to French Revolution Grand Tour France –its language, manners & fashion in high society Paris. Switzerland - crossing over the Alps, dismantling the carriage. The Italian States - with "decadent Italianate allure", starting in Milan, Turin, Genoa -Florence – spending at least a few months with the many other British -Venice – “to see in just one day more handsome women than I ever saw in my life"(Sir James Hall) -Rome - with its ancient ruins, art and architecture. -Naples - with Vesuvius’s wonders, and perhaps on to land’s end. Perhaps to Sicily, Malta and Greece. Perhaps to return via Germanic/Prussian/Austrian states/parts of Europe - Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Munich. To Holland/Netherlands/Flanders, en route home. 2 Byron’s Grand Tour of 1809 – 1811, during the Napoleonic Wars From 1809 to 1811, Byron went on his own Grand Tour but his route differed because of The Napoleonic Wars: Portugal -where he started Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: “the travels of a world-weary young man, who is disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry and looks for distraction in foreign lands” – a biography?! The Mediterranean – Gibraltar, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta (where he wrote ‘Farewell to Malta’ full of personal grievances about his stay) The Adriatic/Ionian/Aegean –Greece, Ottoman Albania and Constantinople, swimming the Hellespont/Dardanelles strait! 3 Byron’s “In-Exile” Tour of 1816 – 1824, post-Waterloo Back in England, he married in 1815 but his wife, Annabella, considered him insane and they separated in 1816. The stigma of the separation, the scandalous rumours about his half-sister Augusta, and ever-increasing debts forced him to leave England, never to return. As the Napoleonic Wars were over, Byron travelled through Belgium to Switzerland (meeting up with the Shelley-family of Frankenstein-fame) and on to Venice, Rome, Ravenna, Pisa, Genoa…..usually moving on as each romantic affaire came to an end! In 1823, Byron committed to support Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire, and arrived in Kefalonia (under British rule). Byron spent a fortune of his own money for the Greek cause, and in 1824, relocated to mainland Greek town of Missolonghi. On February 15, 1824, almost exactly 200 years ago from our ball today, Byron fell ill, bloodletting weakened him further so when he caught a violent cold he passed in Missolonghi on 19 April 1824. The Greek’s believe “his heart remains at Missolonghi”, whilst his other remains were sent to England for burial in Westminster Abbey, but were refused for reason of "questionable morality"! 4 Jane Austen Dancer’s Grand Tour of 2024 On our Tour in 2024, our dances took inspiration from countries/cities/ continents/states/empires such as: Paris, North & South America, Denmark, Holland/Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, India, Venice, Bath, Prussia, Sweden…..