How to Party Like a Pirate: Highlights from the Queen's Ball

The Queen City Vintage Dancers have a different queen each year for the spring Queen's Ball (Charlotte is the Queen City, named for Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg: sorry Cincinnati). This year, the queen is Grace O'Malley, the Irish Pirate Queen!

Many thanks to the scalawags, buccaneers, freebooters, captains, crews, corsairs, and mermaids who came to dance with us! More thanks to the amazing kitchen crew that surpassed themselves on the refreshments, and of course to the crazy band of creative scoundrels who managed to put a whole pirate ship on the stage - that was even shooting cannonballs!

More thanks to Katie, Donna, Hal, Robin, Ava and others who contributed their videos for this recap.

The biggest joy of teaching dance is the laughter and smiles that filled the room all night. See you at the Christmas ball!