Start date to be announced.
When: Mondays at 7 pm
Where: Northmount Baptist Church Hall (451 Northmount Dr NW)
Cost: Free to members
Teachers: Adam Dahmer and Dhanya Baird.
Cèilidh dancing is a fun, simple, energetic style of social folkdance with roots in the Scottish Highlands that is today one of the world’s most popular styles of Scottish dance. If you’ve ever been Scottish Country dancing, you can think of cèilidh dancing as its rowdier, more care-free cousin – enthusiasm is half the dance!
The classes will teach the dances most popular at cèilidh dance events in Scotland, so that, if you happen to attend a cèilidh dance while visiting An t-Seann Dùthaich (The Old Country), you’ll be ready to join right in!
Although the steps are simple, cèilidh dances have quite varied patterns – couples’ round dances, square dances, facing four-couple sets, and long lines – so you’ll feel stimulated without feeling daunted; and the dances include steps from other styles of folk and
ballroom dancing – like waltzes, reels, and polkas – so that cèilidh-ing can be your gateway to a veritable world of dance!
Cèilidh dances are good physical and mental exercise for people of all ages, and for families as well as couples and individuals – so feel free to bring your friends and family
members!
You’ll have the chance to learn the names of the dances in English and Gaelic, and – if you’re interested – to try your hand at dance-calling, so that you can eventually set
up your own cèilidh-dance events!
Come one, come all, and have a ball: Bidh sinn a’ dèanamh fiughair ri ur faicinn! (We look forward to seeing you!)
