I'm off to Lunacon this weekend at the Escher (Rye Town) Hilton in Westchester County, NY. I have a light program schedule: just a Steampunk Ball running from 10pm-??? on Friday night. The blurb for the ball is:
Attention all aeronauts, aethernauts, lady and gentleman
adventurers, mad scientists, inventors, and other Steampunks and
neo-Victorians!
Join us at 10:00 PM Friday night in the Grand Ballroom
for a
time-traveling formal evening at the Steampunk Ball! Become
part of the living clockwork of Victorian and Victorian-inspired set
dances and spin madly with your partner to romantic waltzes and lively
polkas.
No previous experience is needed; all dances will be
taught by dance mistress Susan de Guardiola.
Music will be an eclectic mix of modern and nineteenth
century. Steampunk, neo-Victorian, or Victorian costume encouraged and
admired, but not required.
Airships and time machines should be parked outside the
ballroom. No sabers, ray guns, or clanks permitted on the dance floor.
I'll be there in my black 1880s ballgown with little Steampunk touches (goggles!) teaching and calling Victorian and Victorian-inspired dances to a mix of modern and 19th-century music. I'm a little worried about attendance with it being on Friday night, so if anyone who's going to Lunacon would like to help spread the word, please feel free to do so. Really, please, pretty please!
I thought about volunteering for more programming, but decided I was feeling lazy, so I'm going to do my ball and then relax for the rest of the weekend and spend some time with friends.
Part of this relaxation will include wandering around in my thrown-together Repo! The Genetic Opera "GeneCo Inventory Girl" hall costume (a copy of the one from the movie, shown here). It will be interesting to see if anyone recognizes this extremely minor, non-speaking background character. Repo is my latest favorite obsession, and this will probably be the first of several costumes from the movie that emerge from my sewing room over the next few months. I haven't done re-creation costumes in years; it's interesting going back into the obsessive-copying mindset needed to do it well. My lengthy do-list includes such weird tasks as "boil the fur" and "dissect pantyhose."
As usual, if you read Rixo and will be at Lunacon, please say hi!
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