Tea dancing enjoys revival
PA Auckland Tea dancing, an English tradition dating back to the early 1800 s, is undergoing a Sunday afternoon revival in Auckland. Tea-dancing afternoons of nostalgia offer dancing to popular music spanning the 1920 s to 1980 s and sumptuous refreshments of jam and cream scones, sandwiches, pastries, fruit juice, tea and coffee.
Whirling dance routines, such as the foxtrot and quick step, are revived to classic old Broadway hits.
The style of dancing found favour with royalty early in the nineteenth century and its introduction to Auckland’s Regent Hotel follows a resurgence of interest in London, the United States and Australia.
Tea dances are run throughout winter every second Sunday. At $26 a head they are a sell-out and to get in, people are booking in advance, said the hotel’s public relations manager, Ms Julia Vickerman.
The sessions are limited to 120 people and are also attracting a younger section of Aucklanders than expected.
“We expected to get 40 year olds and older but we find they are 30 years old and up and quite a few younger people,” said Ms Vickerman.
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