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SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING
 AND MORE!
 Houston, Texas

WEDNESDAYS  7 - 10 p.m.
LOCATION: Oddfellows Hall, 115 E 14th St,
Heights, Houston, Texas
 MAP     PHOTO OF HALL

3rd building on the NORTH side of 14th  just east of Heights Blvd.;
entrance is on the right, set back from the road; dancing is upstairs.

Cost:  $5.00 adults; $2.50 children; $15.00 max per family


FOR MORE INFO:  Dianna Shipman  (713 522 1212) 
Founded January 14, 1998

NEWCOMERS WELCOME!
NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE NEEDED * NO PARTNERS NEEDED
INFO FOR NEW DANCERS

NEWSLETTERS

If you'd like to receive weekly email "Dance Notes"
and/or monthly "Celtic Houston" newsletter,
send me an email.

-Dianna Shipman

We're always looking for musicians to play for dancing!*

Playing for Scottish Country Dancing

Strathspeys

Susie Petrov's Scottish Country Dance Music Book
 

Scottish Country Dancing & More
Tentative Schedule of Themes & Parties:
[subject to change]
Note:  if anyone wants to celebrate their birthday with us, just let me know

JANUARY

  7
14 11th Anniversary Party
21 Robert Burns Theme
28 Chinese New Year Theme
(actual date: Jan 26 - Year of the Ox)

FEBRUARY

  4 Italian Night/Pizza
11 Valentine Theme
18 Mardi Gras Theme (Lisa Smith guest  leader)
25 Rodeo Theme (Judi Hallenbeck, guest leader)
      [March 3-22 Rodeo]

MARCH

  4
11 St. Patrick's Theme
18
25  Pizza Night

APRIL

  1 Silly Hat/ April Fool's/
     Tartan Day Party
     & San Antonio Ball Practice
  8 SPRING FLING
15
22
29 Pizza Night

MAY

 6
13 PRACTICE FOR HHG PERFORMANCE
20
27 Memorial Day Theme & Pizza Night

JUNE

  3 LIVE MUSIC & MIDSUMMER BALL PRACTICE:
    Hugh Morrison, Kendall Rogers, Diehl Moran
10  LIVE MUSIC & MIDSUMMER BALL PRACTICE:
    Hugh Morrison, Kendall Rogers, Diehl Moran
17 MIDSUMMER BALL PRACTICE
24  Wedding/Love Theme & Pizza Night

JULY

  1 Americana Theme
  8
15 Harry Potter Theme
Harry Potter
& the Half Blood Prince -
July 17, 2009
22
29 Gilbert & Sullivan Theme & Pizza Night

AUGUST

  5 Watermelon Theme
    (Aug 3 is Watermelon Day)
12
19
26 Bud's Birthday Party & Pizza Night

SEPTEMBER

  2 Labor Day Theme
  9
16
23
30 Pizza Night

OCTOBER

  7
14 HOUSTON BALL PRACTICE
21
28 Halloween Theme & Pizza Night

NOVEMBER

 4
11
18 Thanksgiving Theme
25 NO DANCING

DECEMBER

 2
 9
16 CHRISTMAS PARTY
23 NO DANCING
30 NO DANCING
31 (THURSDAY: New Year's Eve Party - tentative)

 

LEARNING ABOUT DANCING AND DANCES:

DIANNA'S DANCE MANUAL

List of Steps, Figures & Formations
 Steps Described
 Unusual (or rarer) Figures

Allemande
 Promenade
 Figure of Eight
 Strathspey Poussette

Balance in Line
Corners
Poussette
Hands Across (for 3 - teapots)
 Reels of Three

DANCE DATA

Minicrib

Strathspey Server

Scottish, English, Ceilidh, and Contra Dancing - paper from workshop

SHOES:

Edinburgh, Scotland:  St. Andrews Shoemakers Tartan Toes (Houston, TX) more shoe listings

CARE OF FEET

AVALON SCHOOL OF MASSAGE, SUSAN KELM & PAUL RICHARDS (Susan is one of our dancers)
Avon foot products
Dance Injuries Orthopedics -general info Plantar Fasciitis, Heel Spurs, Heel Pain

Sports Massage

 		Foot Levelers Bunheads - dance accessories


FINDING GROUPS, EVENTS, WORKSHOPS:

Royal Scottish Country
Dance Society

TAC:
Teacher's Assn Canada

Trips by Ken McFarland

Grand Chain
worldwide info

The Inter-city Scot
(Events in North America)

Celtic Circle -
groups and events
in Continental Western Europe

OTHER TYPES OF DANCE

The Urlar - Dance excerpt

CEILIDH DANCING
ENGLISH DANCE

 

TEXAS:

HOUSTON: 
SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING
 AND MORE

HOUSTON: 
ROYAL SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE SOCIETY: 
HOUSTON & DISTRICT BRANCH

AUSTIN: 
Austin Scottish Country Dance Society
 in addition see their Member Site
 (requires sign up)

AUSTIN:
Scottish Country Dance Alliance

SAN ANTONIO:
Bluebonnet Scottish Country Dancers

 

FT. WORTH AND DALLAS:
 Scottish Country Dancing in the Metroplex

CORPUS CHRISTI: 
Celtic Menagerie Scottish Country Dancers

LUBBOCK: 
Tartan Scottish Country Dancers;
contact Darla Granberry

MIDLAND: 
Thistle and Rose Scottish Country Dancers;
contact Faith Vedder

OTHER STATES:

ARKANSAS: 
Arkansas Country Dance Society

ARIZONA: 
Phoenix Branch, RSCDS

COLORADO:
Celtic Dance in Colorado
 Scottish Country Dancers of Colorado

HAWAII:
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
 of Hawaii

LOUISIANA: 

Baton Rouge:
Caledonian Society of Baton Rouge
Scottish Country Dancers

 New Orleans:
 Fridays, 7:30PM, St. Francis Xavier School Auditorium
For more info: Wendy Grubb

NEW MEXICO: 
New Mexico Branch, RSCDS

ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD:

RSCDS CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA BRANCH

RSCDS
New Zealand Branch

Scots in France

The Wandering Bruces
(Roger & Meg Bruce - dancers from San Antonio)

*A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO HAVE PLAYED FOR OUR DANCING:

HUGH MORRISON
(accordion)

BARBARA DOWNIE, Fiddler
(now living in Glasgow, Scotland, working with the BBC)

LARS SLOAN, American Bagpipes

FISH & CHIPS

The Rovers Return

 IN MEMORY OF LLOYD GIBSON
with a special thank you for
the Gibson Family's donation of a sound system!

MARILYN COOPER, Pianist
(now living in Austin, Texas)

BILL THURMAN, Fiddler
(now living in Little Rock, Arkansas)

PEGGY CARTER, Dulcimer

DIEHL MORAN, Fiddler

Dianna's Personal Pages

Scottish Aires - April 7, 2007
 also DJ FOR A DAY

POSTER SECTION

SCOTTISH & IRISH POSTERS & PRINTS

 Dance & Music Posters

 LORD OF THE RINGS

 JUST FOR FUN

(also see LINKS SUMMARY)

Webmaster: Dianna Shipman

Page updated May 18, 2009

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