The Basics (An English Country Dance Workshop) Saturday, January 27, 2024, 2:00-5:00 pm St. Mark's Episcopal Church 600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto, CA   Price at the door: $20

This year's workshop is for newer dancers who want a better grasp of fundamentals, with figures learned and practiced in simpler contexts. Experienced dancers wanting to help or wanting a refresher are also welcome.

Internationally-known dancing master Bruce Hamilton leads an English Country Dance Workshop. Bruce will use simple or well-known dances to illustrate the teaching points, while the workshop setting allows attendees to focus directly on improving their dance technique and enjoyment of ECD.



Music for the session will be provided by the superb duo of Bill Jensen and Mary Tabor.

Bruce Hamilton has more than 40 years experience teaching Scottish and English Country dancing. He created what is now the BACDS Peninsula English dance series, was an early co-foreman of Berkeley Morris and started the Deer Creek Morris Men.He has become one of the country's most popular English country dance leaders with invitations to many weekends and dance camps each year. Lately, he has been focusing on nonchoreographic elements of English Country dance: how to move well, how to be musical, how to recover from slips, how to be a good partner, body mechanics, and the social and mental aspects of this social dance form.