Scottish Dancing is an excellent way to keep fit by taking regular exercise in a sociable setting. The music alone is enough to get you moving straight away. Our weekly evening sessions encompass both Ceilidh and Traditional styles. Ceilidh style involves a relatively small number of dances - such as Gay Gordons and Dashing White Sergeant - and is popular at weddings, Burns Suppers etc. Traditional Scottish Country style covers Reels, Jigs and Strathspeys, such as General Stuart's Reel or the Dundee Whaler. There are thousands of these and an evening of social dancing will normally feature twenty or so. We can show you how to tackle a programme like this with confidence, even if you have never danced some of the dances before. Every year, new dances are added by enthusiasts from all over the world.

Although we often call them classes, these sessions are more like going to a weekly club. The atmosphere is really quite relaxed and informal. The teacher will be ready to tailor the help you are given to match what you already know (or don't know) about the steps and the formations and will introduce you to these in easy stages. More-experienced dancers will find they become more relaxed as dancing begins to require less concentration of thought! In a short time, you will be able to enjoy lots of the straightforward dances such as Postie's Jig and The Round reel of Eight and it will be time for you to come along with confidence to some of our regular social dances. 

From  11th January 2010

Monday Ceilidh Dancing     7.30pm - 9.00pm

These evenings continuing after Easter (see Branch News)

Forthill Primary School, (Large Hall*)

Fintry Place, Broughty Ferry.

Teacher -  Pia Walker

Cost - Members £3.50 / Non members £5.00

*Enter by the school front entrance and proceed to the rear of the building

(Ending at Easter)

This is a social dancing class, and adult participants of any age or ability are welcome to come along and enjoy a fun evening.    Some advice about technique will be given to enhance everyone's enjoyment of Scottish Country Dancing.

Tuesday    7.30pm- 9.30pm

Park Place Primary School

Teacher -  Fiona Mackie

Cost - Members £3.50 / Non members £5.00

If you look carefully at a group of experienced dancers you will notice that they match each other very closely in their style of executing the figures of the dance and in the smooth way that they perform the steps. This increases the enjoyment of dancing, and makes the dancing a pleasure to watch because there is a harmony about observing that the dancers are aware of what all of the couples in the set are doing at all times and this is what we mean by Technique. It is one of the great achievements of the RSCDS that across the world it has unified the way in which the dances are done. So, for example, a dancer from Canada or Japan would feel immediately at ease at a dance in Dundee or Amsterdam.  There is also standardisation in the way in which dance instructions are written, making it very easy to understand the many new dances that are devised each year.

For the Technique Class,  participants are expected to have the sort of experience of Scottish Country Dancing which would come from say two years of going to general social dances and one of our adult classes. A prior knowledge of all of the more common steps and formations will be assumed. Although the aim is for dancing of a high standard, there is still a good measure of humour at these classes and the kind of friendship that comes from being involved in a common endeavour. Volunteers from this class make up the Demonstration Teams that perform at events throughout our area, but not all members of the group wish to involve themselves in this way. In the past, our dancers have performed at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, and danced for The Queen, plus appearing at hundreds of events in and around Dundee.

Thursday    8.00pm - 9.30pm

(Ending at Easter)

Harris Academy (Gym Hall),

Perth Road, Dundee.

Teacher -  Jim Healy

Musician - Luke Brady

Cost -  Members £3.50 / Non members £5.00