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Saturday 23rd November 2024  1:30pm to 5:30pm

Copdock & Washbrook Village Hall, IPSWICH IP8 3JN

Tickets £6.00        Dancing to recorded music

Dear Dancing Friends,

Our Autumn/November Dance is approaching fast on 23rd November, which just happens to be the 101st anniversary of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. We would love as many of you as possible to join us for a great afternoon of dancing.  You'll see from above that we are starting early and finishing early to make travel easier. Full information with programme and cribs to download are on the event page here.

Our Christmas dance follows swiftly on 7th December when we'll be dancing to the wonderful playing of Keith Smith and Anne-Laure Letour. Details, programme and cribs now available on the event page here.

We end 2024 on New Year's Eve with our Hogmanay Afternoon Dance, giving plenty of time for really enthusiastic dancers to join us and still have time to dance the night away elsewhere!

2025 will see the second Suffolk Day School on 7th June at Risby Village Hall near Bury St Edmunds and on the evening of 21st June, we will jointly host the second East Anglian Ball with our dancing friends from Norfolk and Cambridge. We will again be dancing to the joyful playing of Keith and Anne-Laure.

We have classes at Bredfield on Wednesday evenings and at Nacton on Friday evenings both from 7:30pm to 9:30pm.. 

Woodbridge (Bredfield) Class Information    Woodbridge (Bredfield) Class Programmes   Nacton Class Information

Videos of dances

Many people now use the YouTube videos to help with learning new dances, or just refreshing their memory on old ones, and these can be found via links on the Scottish Country Dance Dictionary cribs pages. However, not all dances have videos, and that applies particularly to locally devised dances such as The Saxtead Mill, Gillian's Strathspey and Jim and Margaret's Jig.  So the Woodbridge class has been busy filling a few gaps. Click on the button below to see what we have achieved!

Click here to see our videos   

Best wishes to you all,

Libby Wragg

Chair of the Anglo-Scottish Society of Ipswich

Affiliated to the RSCDS