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Updated on May 10 at 11:30 PM
The next Louisville ECD class will be May 31 starting at 3:00 PM.
Note that this is a fifth Sunday! Most years, the last Sunday in May is Memorial Day weekend but with the extra Sunday this year, our dance is not on the holiday Sunday. Do come and join us!
3 - 5 PM
St. Andrews Episcopal Church
$5 at the door
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Dance Opportunities Coming up in the "Area"
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Third Saturdays, Louisville
Birds of a Feather English Country Dance, 4 - 6 PM
Live Music, varying callers.
Highlands Community Ministry, 1228 E. Breckinridge St, Louisville, KY
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ECD on Zoom, Sunday & Tuesday at 2 pm Eastern and 1st Thursday, 7 pm Eastern
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July 26 - August 1, 2026, CDSS English Dance Week, Pinewoods Camp, Plymouth, MA
https://camp.cdss.org/camp-sessions/english-dance-week/
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October 2 - 4, 2026, Harvest Moon ECD Weekend, St. Charles, IL
Bruce Hamilton calling to the music of Mara Shea and Dave Wiesler
https://chicagolandecd.org/harvest-moon-dance-weekend-2026/
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October 23 - 25, 2026, Cleveland Autumn Assembly, Cleveland, OH
Susan Kevra calling to the music of Karen Axelrod, Rachel Bell, and Audrey Leigh Jaber
https://folknet.regfox.com/cleveland-autumn-assembly-2026
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A list of English (and contra) dance events in North America is at https://cdss.org/events/
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- Want to know more about English Country Dance?
HERE IS A VIDEO explaining ECD to new dancers:
http://www.henryandjacqui.com/ECD/
Wikipedia’s description is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_country_dance
Traveling? A list of ECD groups across the USA can be found at:
http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/~winston/ecd/hotbeds.htmlx
Want to travel to an ECD Event? Here is a list of special events and weekends :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y6q3Ff6bp3iUYG8ZQM1kv1rK7EvIf-TykX4795N7Xsw/edit?usp=sharing
Or, go to the CDSS calendar for events and weekends that include more than English Country Dance:
A general source of dance information with links to ECD, ceilidh, and other dance information.
Be warned, once you go here you are at risk of losing a couple of hours.
https://www.webfeet.org/efolk/
Animations of lots of dances.
http://www.dancekaleidoscope.org.au/Dance.html
A set of videos showing how to do 22 formations:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL98115A77C0A52C39
Alan Winston’s ECD Mailing List (Discussion group) and links to more than you thought you wanted to know:
http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/%7Ewinston/ecd.htmlx
English dance is slow and stately? Uhmmm, check out this video of the London Folk Dance display team:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIIOMCz0jFc