The Highbury Ball: A regency themed English Country Dance

Name: The Highbury Ball: A regency themed English Country Dance
Start: 2025-09-05T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-05T21:30:00-05:00
Location: German-American Society

Schedule

Fri Sep 05 2025 at 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

German-American Society | Omaha, NE

“It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;—but when a beginning is made—when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt—it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.” -Emma
This year’s theme for our Sept. 5th formal dance will be the Highbury Ball, from Jane Austen’s “Emma”.
Our hope in changing the fall formal theme is to make our two formal events more equal- right now there is great demand to attend the Fezziwig, and not so much the Fall formal. We hope to add skits to the Fall formal, similar to the skits we have at Fezziwig. Otherwise, the venue, band, and dances are already similar. We hope that balancing the disparity between our formal events will allow more people overall to attend one of our formal events, and not be too disappointed if they are not able to attend both due to registration limitations.
For both of our annual formal events, registration through our website is now required to attend, and beginning in 2025 we will be raising the cost of attendance at formal events to $15 per person or $45 per family. Registration will be limited. We do not keep a wait list. We do not have volunteer capacity to host the same event twice in one week. For those interested in helping, we are always looking for musicians, callers, actors, set up/take down, and tech help!