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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
 

 

LEARNING ABOUT DANCING AND DANCES:

 

DIANNA'S DANCE MANUAL

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

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:

 

SHOES:

Edinburgh, Scotland: 

St. Andrews Shoemakers

 Tartan Toes (Houston, TX) more shoe listings

CARE OF FEET

AVALON SCHOOL OF MASSAGE
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

The RSCDS Shop
RSCDS dance index
RSCDS Recordings
Other (non-RSCDS) Recordings
RSCDS Publications
Other (non-PRCDS) Publications
NEW:  CORE DANCES (pdf file)
Dance Scottish Week 2008
RSCDS Accessories
RSCDS Video and DVDs

TAC:
Teacher's Assn Canada

2008 TACsound catalog in pdf format
 TACbooks
 

TACBooks
c/o Craig & Jody Williams
99 Gray Crescent
Kanata, ON K2K 3J7
Canada
Phone or Fax: (613) 254-7242
Email: tacbooks@tac-rscds.org

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
Dianna's Note: 
June 26 is the tentative date for the 2010 Midsummer Ball.

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
The Arkansas dancers are planning a workshop for February 27, 2010. 
That's the last weekend in February, so put it on your calendar! 
More details soon, but John Middleton will be the instructor and Elke Baker will provide the music for the workshop and ball.  
Hope you can come!
 Judy Robertson
 jrobertiii@hotmail.com

Arkansas Country Dance Society
 holds Friday Night Dances and Clogging Practices
on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Fridays
Park Hill Presbyterian Church in North Little Rock.
The dances begin at 7:30pm.
See our
Events Calendar
for dates and for our special events like
Mt. View Dance Festival,
November Petit Jean Dance Weekend,
and our appearances at
Historical Arkansas Museum. 
Additional information is available in our
newsletter.
ACDS is a group affiliate of the
 Country Dance and Song Society.

ARIZONA: 
Phoenix Branch, RSCDS

CALIFORNIA:  SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

http://www.rscds-interbranch.org

 

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

MISSISSIPPI:

Rose Snow, 125 Hunt Circle, Madison Ms. 39110
Tel: 601-856-2958 e-mail rsnow@mbhs.org

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 February 10, 2010

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