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The BACDS newsletter. Catch up on all the local dance news.

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NOTE: BACDS provides, co-sponsors, or participates with a number of music and dance scholarships.  Are you taken advantage of them?

BACDS Dance Series

BACDS sponsors English and American traditional dances in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is fun, relatively easy, community-oriented dancing with live music. All dances are taught, no partner is necessary, and first-timers are welcome unless otherwise noted.

Here are selected series' schedules.

Gender-Free calling, Kid-friendly dance, First time trying contra is free with Intro at 2:30p.

BACDS Summer Camps

BACDS conducts three week-long dance & music camps in the summer: Family Week, American Dance & Music Week, and Hey Days English Dance & Music Week. Each offers a unique experience for dancer, musician, camper, or just plain vacationer. There's no better way to learn new and improve existing skills or to meet new friends than by immersion. Dive in!

Special Events

Check out our special event flyers

San Francisco Folk Music Club regrets that the site for Camp New Harmony burned to the ground in the early hours of the Tubbs fire on October 9-10. We have found an alternative site for this year's camp, but the size will be greatly reduced. Please refer to www.sffmc.org/harmony_body.html.

Finish out 2017 with good cheer and good dancing at the Palo Alto Contra. Ring out the old year and waltz in the new to the music of StringFire (Erik Ievins, Patti Cobb, and Shira Kammen). Calling by Kalia Kliban. Happy New Year!

Contra College is an urban weekend in downtown Palo Alto, CA, focused on teaching Contra dance to new and intermediate dancers, and where experienced dancers can improve their skills, help newer dancers, or practice the other gender role.

"The Bay Area's grandest English Country Dance gala"

Friday Night Waltz presents this mashup of contras and couple dances. Introductions to one-step, waltz, mixers and contra taught 7-9pm in two halls by Richard Powers and Susan Petrick. Then from 9pm to midnight The Offbeats (Jeff Spero and Ashley Broder of The Syncopaths, plus Ben Schreiber) play for contras (called by Susan) alternating with pairs of couple dances.