Thousands of Jane Austen superfans descend on city to celebrate beloved author’s birthday
Many young people hit the dance slope on the modern Pop, Ellie Potts and their friends in Hampshire step back in time and adopt the complex steps of the popular British country dances 200 years ago.
As the music begins, about two dozen men and women make elegant curts and springs, extending the gloved hands to their partners before moving in sensitive circles and detailed patterns.
Like most of Hampshire Regelency dancers, MS Potts is also a loyal fan of Jane Austen and the entire Regelency era.
Beyond the examination of books and screen adaptations, they investigate music, make their own period dresses, and enjoy themselves and enjoy themselves centuries ago.
“I’ve been interested in Jane Austen since I was 8 or 9,” said 25 -year -old Potts.
“I was essentially joined (dance group) so that I could have the balls and jobs that will go to my costumes, but I really got into it. I was surprised how much I enjoyed the dance.”
This year, pointing to the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth, there is no shortage of balluis balls for fans like MS Potts and there is no shortage of historical dance activities.
This weekend, thousands of fans who call themselves “Janeites ,, descend to the city of Bath for a 10 -day festival celebrating his beloved writers. Pride and prejudice And Sensation and sensitivity.
The emphasis is a Regency costumed ride on Saturday, where the best hoods, springs and costumes of about 2,000 people will have a passage ceremony on the streets of Bath.
Organizers, Extravaganza’nın “the biggest meeting of people dressed in the regency costumes” said the Guinness world record.
Fans come down from all over the world
Bonny Wise from Indiana is attending the sixth Jane Austen festival in Bath. This time he brings his four -term dress and will lead a tour group of 25 Austen enthusiasts from all over the United States.
“When I realized that it was a big year for Jane four years ago, I started planning a tour, Wise Wise said 69. Sensation and sensitivity spark your obsessions.
“This film has opened a brand new world for me,” he said. “You start with books, movies, then you start to get into hats, tea, attitudes… Something has led to another.”
Wise said that he liked intelligence, humor and social observations in Austen’s books. He also finds the author’s own life story inspiring.
“I admire Jane and what he admired as a woman at that time, and the process of being a writer,” he said.
Jane Austen North American Association, the world’s largest organization, said that you have recently seen the influx of young fans, but most of its members are 5,000 years old so far.
“We are always growing up because Jane Austen said,” We are always growing up. ” “We have members from Japan, India. They come from every continent except Antarctica.”
Bridgerton Effect
Many festival directors will make pilgrimage to Steventon, a small village in the countryside of Southern England, where Austen was born in 1775.
For five years, the author lived in Bath, a stylish town of SPA in the 18th and 19th centuries. Two of his novels, Persuasion And Northanger MonasteryThe features in World Heritage City.
The bathroom is also a shooting place for some parts. BridgertonNetflix’s wildly popular modern era drama was loosely based on the Regelency period, as the future King George IV was not suitable for managing because of his father’s mental illness.
Thanks to the show, austen and regency -style – romantic flowing aprons, elegant ballrooms and high community soires – have become fashionable for a new generation.
“I think Jane Austen is on the rise, Pot Potts said. “It has become more popular since then Bridgerton“
Take a step back in time
In a church hall in Winchester, a few streets away from Austen’s buried, Hampshire Regengency dancers are gathering weekly to practice the writer for many performances this year.
The group chooses the dances appearing in the screen adaptations of Austen’s novels, and the members go to careful details to make their costumes authentic as the buttons and sewing.
“We are having a lot of trouble to get as close to the original things as possible,” he said.
“For me, then, then understand what life is like, and in the process of better understanding Jane Austen.”
Oswald is passionate about what his band calls the showcase in Hampshire or what he calls “Jane Austen Land ..
“People are touched because they walk around where Jane Austen really walks. They dance in a room where Jane Austen dances,” he said. “This is extremely special for people who enter Jane Austen too much.”
Many “Janeit”, Austen’s words and images of people who think similar to a community of people who say they enjoyed a great pleasure.
Lisa Timbs, a pianist who researches the music in Austen’s life and performs in an antique pianophoral, puts it concise: He and his friends said, “Together they step back together.”
“I think this is an escape for many people, Tim said TIMBS. “Perhaps the longing to escape from the speed, noise and abrasion of the period in which we found ourselves and return to the elegance and tolerant pleasures of a really temporary period in history.”
