Scandia DC 3rd Saturday Dance - February 15, 2020 (Photo by Linda Brooks)
WELCOME TO SCANDIA DC
Scandia DC Director, Linda Brooks
Scandia DC, a Scandinavian Folk Dance Group serving the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, is dedicated to the enjoyment of Norwegian and Swedish couple turning dances. Here is your opportunity to learn and do Scandinavian couple dances. Come and join us in dancing a large variety of dances including Gammaldans* and Bygdedans**. The group meets every 3rd Saturday of the month from September through May (with a break for the summer). Most sessions begin with one featured dance which is taught before open dancing begins. There is usually live music accompanying the dancing.
* Gammaldans includes dances such as Hambo, Schottish, Reinlender, Snoa (Polka), Mazurka, Pols, and Scandinavian waltz. **Bygdedans includes the regional and village dances that are specific to a region within either Sweden or Norway.
See below for the details on the next event. If you wish to receive information and are not currently on our mailing list, email Linda@ScandiaDC.org with your name (first and last), your email address, your location and whether you are a dancer, musician or both.
Scandia DC January 2025 Third Sat Event
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Saturday, January 18th; 6:45 pm - 9:20 pm; Sign-in with music for dancing starting at 6:45 pm, teaching 7:00 pm - 7:50pm, open dancing 7:50 pm - 9:20 pm - mostly to live music.
Greenbelt Community Center Dance Studio, 15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt MD - email Linda@ScandiaDC.org with name, email, location and whether you are a dancer, musician or both, to be added to the notification list. You must enter through the main entrance in the front, on the street side and not the west side entrance that we used to use.
Teaching by Linda Brooks and David Auty: Boda Polska, a favorite and beautiful Swedish dance from the Dalarna region of Sweden.
Details to be supplied in invitation email.
Live music by our featured musician, Loretta Kelley a local, national and international treasure, playing sets for dancing on the Norwegian Hardangfele and flat fiddle. Set 1 will include the Scandia DC Spelmanslag led by Loretta. Links to sheet music will be available about a week before the event at ScandiaDC.org, click on “Music”, “Spelmanslag”.
$10, $5 spelmanslag members (to help pay the rent and the featured musician)
Note that this year’s Scandia DC Third Saturday dances starting this month (January 2025) will be in the evenings again (6:45-9:30pm) instead of afternoons, as they were pre-pandemic as the Greenbelt Community Center has added Saturday evening hours.
