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 November 2024 Dance & Music Event
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Saturday, November 16th; 3:15 pm - 5:35 pm; Sign-in with music for dancing starting at 3:15 pm, teaching 3:30-4:20, open dancing 4:20pm - 5:35 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: Norwegian-Swedish dance: Finnskogspols (subject to change) by Linda Brooks & Dan Kahn
Details to be supplied in invitation email.
Loretta Kelley (Norwegian Hardangfele and flat fiddle) playing sets for dancing; Set 1 will include the Scandia DC Spelmannslag led by Loretta. Links to sheet music will be available about a week before the event at ScandiaDC.org, click on “Music”, “Spelmannslag”.
$10, $5 spelmannslag members (to help pay the rent and the musician)
Scandia DC’s next event will be the Third Saturday in December - December 21st and will feature two fabulous musicians, our own Loretta Kelley and Andrea Hoag previously local but now visiting from Tucson, Arizona!! An added plus is that they will have released their new album of wonderful music which will be on sale at the event!
Also note that next year’s Scandia DC Third Saturday dances starting in January will most probably be in the evenings again, as they were pre-pandemic. The Greenbelt Community Center will be adding Saturday evening hours.
