Scandia DC 3rd Saturday Dance - February 15, 2020 (Photo by Linda Brooks)
WELCOME TO SCANDIA DC
Scandia DC Director, Linda Brooks
Scandia DC, a Scandinavian Folk Dance Group serving the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, is dedicated to the enjoyment of Norwegian and Swedish couple turning dances. Here is your opportunity to learn and do Scandinavian couple dances. Come and join us in dancing a large variety of dances including Gammaldans* and Bygdedans**. The group meets every 3rd Saturday of the month from September through May (with a break for the summer). Most sessions begin with one featured dance which is taught before open dancing begins. There is usually live music accompanying the dancing.
* Gammaldans includes dances such as Hambo, Schottish, Reinlender, Snoa (Polka), Mazurka, Pols, and Scandinavian waltz. **Bygdedans includes the regional and village dances that are specific to a region within either Sweden or Norway.
See below for the details on the next event. If you wish to receive information and are not currently on our mailing list, email Linda@ScandiaDC.org with your name (first and last), your email address, your location and whether you are a dancer, musician or both.
Scandia DC October 2025 Third Sat Event
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Saturday, Nov 15th, 6:45 pm - 9:20 pm; Sign-in with music for dancing starting at 6:45 pm, teaching 7:00 pm - 7:50 pm, open dancing from 7:50pm - 9:20 pm mostly to live music.
Greenbelt Community Center Dance Studio, 15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt MD - email Linda@ScandiaDC.org with name, email, location and whether you are a dancer, musician or both, to be added to the notification list. You must enter through the main entrance in the front, on the street side and not the west side entrance that we used to use.
Teaching: Vestland Springar. Linda Brooks and David Auty will teach this wonderful Norwegian dance that was previously taught by our Norwegian visitors at the Mid-Atlantic Norwegian Dancers (MAND) Springar Spree last spring.
Details to be supplied in an invitation email.
Except for the teaching session which will be recorded music, the rest of the evening will be live music by our featured musician, Loretta Kelley, a local treasure and the leading US born hardanger fiddle player. Loretta will be leading the Scandia DC Spelmanslag and playing for dancing on the hardanger fiddle and the flat fiddle during the evening. Set 1 will include the Scandia DC Spelmanslag, led by Loretta. Links to sheet music for Set 1 will be available at ScandiaDC.org about a week before the event - click on “Music”, “Spelmanslag”. Set 2 will be live music by Loretta.
$10, $5 spelmanslag members (to help pay the rent and the musician)
Note that this year’s Scandia DC Third Saturday dances starting in January 2025 are in the evenings again (6:45-9:20pm) instead of afternoons, as they were pre-pandemic as the Greenbelt Community Center has added Saturday evening hours.
