| Deborah Hyland dance mistress St. Louis, Missouri |
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| GENERAL PRESS RELEASE: Deborah Hyland has called and taught dance to a wide range of audiences in the St. Louis area and beyond since 1991. Missouri's classic old-time music provides the perfect drive behind the cadence of her squares, contras, and mixers. Besides appearing regularly at dances in St. Louis, Deborah has headlined at dance weekends, folk fesitvals and many local dances throughout the Midwest and South. With an emphasis on clear teaching, she has coaxed hundreds of beginners toward a successful dance experience. Each dance is taught before the music begins, with demonstrations added if necessary, and then the dance is called to the music, providing prompts to the dancers as they perform a square dance, a Grand March, or the ever-popular Virginia Reel. Deborah's calling appears on a recording by fiddler Lida Bringe, What Will I Do? (1996), and her choreography has been published in Midwest Folklore and Other Dances (1995). |
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| CIVIL WAR PRESS RELEASE Deborah Hyland is a Civil War re-enactor of sorts, but she doesn't carry a musket, she doesn't ride a horse, and she never fires a cannon. She is a dance mistress, and will be calling a dance at ________________________. She is a highly-regarded dance authority from St. Louis and will be making the trip to __________ to show weary warriors, civilians, and anyone interested in dance how to properly execute the dances that were popular in the mid-nineteenth century. She has been teaching to a wide range of audiences in the St. Louis area and beyond since 1991. She has also taught Civil War dancing at a number of reenactments, balls, and battles, including Keokuk, IA; Billie Creek Village, IN; Carthage, Columbia, and St. Louis, MO; Mesopotamia, OH; and Auburn, Pittsfield, and Jacksonville, IL, among others. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, itinerant dance masters travelled the country providing lessons in dance and etiquette, stopping in towns for a few weeks to teach the latest dances such as the Lancers Quadrille and to remind young gentlemen and ladies of the finer points of deportment. Deborah Hyland is the twenty-first century counterpart of those itinerant dance masters and has coaxed hundreds of beginners toward successful dance experiences. Each dance is taught before the music begins, with demonstrations added if necessary, and then the dance is called to the music, providing prompts to the dancers as they perform a quadrille, a Grand March, or the ever-popular Virginia Reel. While the dance mistress, the band, and many of the dancers will appear in period costume, all visitors are welcome to dance. Styles of costume and dance can range from a formal ball to the more relaxed style of a country dance. |
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