Yesteryears Dancers are making the past come alive for all heritage-minded Californians, families and historical buffs alike, by recreating three centuries of dance, both by performances and audience participation, at museums, festivals and historical re-enactment functions around Southern California.
 

September, 1998
Saugus Station
Newhall, California

John Simons and Dorothy Evans

September, 1999
 

Yesteryears Dancers is a semi-professional troupe of costumed ladies and gentlemen, that recreate authentic dances of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries under the artistic direction of Mademoisell Irene Ujda, for museums, festivals and historical re-enactment functions around Southern California, including Heritage Days at the Banning Residence Museum, 150th Anniversary of Rancho Los Cerritos and the 1847 Treaty at Campo de Cahuenga, 100th Anniversary of Historic George Key Ranch, and the 200th Anniversary of Mission San Luis Rey.    Yesteryears Dancers have performed Early California & Gold Rush dances for El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society, the Workman-
Temple Homestead Museum, and Masters College Alumni Fiesta at Gene Autry's Melody Ranch; the Cakewalk at the West Coast Ragtime Festival; a Moxart Minuet at the Feather Awards; Colonial dances for a Knots Berry Farm's Fourth of July fest, 18th c. French court and 19th c. Parisian ballroom dances at the annual Bastille Day French Festival in Santa Barbara; Civil War dances at the Civil War Drum Barracks, Old Port Redondo Days, William S. Hart Ranch, Grand Military Encampments in San Diego and Battle of Shiloh in Thousand Oaks; and late Victorian Dances for Beverly Hills and Upland Historical Societies' home tours.
 Yesteryears Dancers' Film credits include "North and South, Part I and II", "Glory", and "Geronimo" and period television work with local studios.
For further information, kindly contact Madamoiselle Irene Ujda by writing to:
2546 1/2 Corralitas Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90039-4003
Days (310) 244-8028; Fax (310) 244-2366; Dance Line (323) 664-0227, press #2
 

Irene Ujda began her dance training as a child in ballet, Polish folk and ballroom dance, and as a UCLA graduate student in the 1970's majored in World Dance Cultures. Since 1983, Irene has taken classes nationwide and in Europe in historical ballroom dances of all major eras, including with noted dance scholars and teachers Desmond Strobel, Wendy Hilton, Angene Feves, Albert Pill, Ricahrd Powers, Elizabeth Aldrich, Frankie Manning, and others.  Irene assisted Desmond in films and television on "North and South", "Glory", "Once Upon A Texas Train", "Geronimo",  "An American Legend", "Dynasty",  and others.
 
 

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11/30/99