Today I did a dance performance with the Commonwealth Vintage Dancers. Some very nice gentleman donated the money for a beautiful fence to b...

I just discovered something very neat, and simultaneously sad. There is a point in the movie Moulin Rouge where the main character is given ...

The New York Public Library has this in its photostream. It is a map from 1866. So it is possible that Bloodville no longer exists. This mak...

I am not actually planning on making a peacock dress, I promise. I just keep finding interesting ones, and this is too cool not to share. Th...

Saturday, May 29, 2010 The Berlin Massachusetts Town Hall The Commonwealth Vintage Dancers will be holding their annual Returning Heroes Bal...

I've been feeling a need to have a really cute boater hat with a very shallow crown. Modcloth had one in red that I adored, but they don...

Ruth St. Denis would not have worn this one, though. I see no way you could dance in that thing. But it is very dramatic. And very expensive...

This is kind of cool, having seen the photograph of her actually wearing the dress. Here is a painting of Ruth St. Denis in her Peacock dres...

Oh wow. What incredible costumes. I especially love the parasols for the Burmese dance and the train on the Peacock. Oh wow. I am a bit jeal...

As you may or may not know, the Hans Christian Anderson story of the little mermaid has very little to do with the happy Disnified version. ...