Americana
Post Etiquette

Set to Alessandro Marcello’s concerto in D minor, Post Etiquette is inspired by the writings of American author Emily Post. Brought up during the Victorian era and cosseted by the Gilded Age in America, Post became a household name when she published her book on Etiquette in 1922. Her book is still published and she founded the Emily Post Institute that continues to promote good manners in today’s post-manners world. Post Etiquette explores the ways in which manners were the utmost of a respectable society and discovers how to command one’s position in the community, how to behave at tea and afternoon parties, how to greet high society, open the door to a visitor and discover a lady “never on the left”!

“She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way and that; she must not shout; and she must not, while wearing her bridal veil, smoke a cigarette.” Emily Post

Originally created in 2004 for the company in LA, this work has been remade with new creative input from the company’s current dancers, reflecting their own experiences and artistry and exploration of Emily Post’s rules of manners and morals.

“Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.”
Emily Post