After the women's graduations following the 1988 debut, Bond thought the group would die. The next thing you knew we were doing the whole historic circuit. Scholarship can be in the reconstruction process or manifested in choreography. Not only does scholarly work manifest itself in different ways, but students understand history on a more personal level. But, when you put on the corset and find you can't lift your arms, you have a different understanding of how dance has evolved and why.
Social dance provides a glimpse into so many different aspects of history.
There wasn't an age factor, a body type factor. That's part of dance as part of the humanities, not just dance as an art form. Antique began there. Its inception was faculty, students, husbands and boyfriends. That was the gene pool when it started.