Discover DanceWorks presents Maggots, Minuets and Merry Conceits, Franklin County 11/30 Visitors Center
Friday December 15th, 2023 * 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Discover Danceworks is recreating a colonial Christmas evening of entertainment at the Governor’s Palace in Williamsburg, VA.
There will be period dance, history and educational programs with performers in period clothing, elegant, energetic, stylish social dances, and songs popular in 18th Century English Colonial America.
Popular songs will be sung live by The Discover DanceWorks vocalist.
The program will entertain, educate, and bring 18th century dance & society to life.
It will be interspersed with humorous and informative period readings to explain their origins, the social settings in which they were enjoyed, and how they are reconstructed from period dance manuals.
This a free program held at the Franklin County 11/30 Visitors Center, 15 South Main Street in downtown Chambersburg.