All public regular HATDS dances remain suspended. However Bayou Bedlam is open to non-members.
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At a Glance
All regular public HATDS dances remain suspended until further notice. We are monitoring the area's COVID statistics as well as national coverage .
Updates for public dances will be posted here and sent to our main email list. We send emails to this list only when there is news to share about public dances. Otherwise the list is dormant.
As we resume regular dances, the initial dances will be limited to HATDS members. To join HATDS, visit our membership pages.
You can connect with other dancers through the HATDS Facebook group and through some of the events listed in the @Home section below.
Bayou Bedlam
Bayou Bedlam is our annual contradance festival held each February. We are planning an in-person event in 2022, although it's been scaled down to a double dance. See bayoubedlam.org for details.
Donations Accepted
Although HATDS is fortunate to be in good financial shape, we do have ongoing annual expenses but no membership or dance income to defray them. We gladly accept direct donations in any amount (minimum $5, please) to offset those expenses.
For more details, see our donation page.
You can also support HATDS through the AmazonSmile program.
However, Amazon donates only 0.5% of eligible purchases to HATDS—that’s only $0.50 for every $100 spent—so please use AmazonSmile to supplement but not replace direct donations. Thanks!
Events @Home
Please send corrections and additions for this page to website@hatds.org. Thanks!
CDSS Events List
The place to start for @Home events. Includes some of the events we list below along with several more, including concerts, classes for callers and musicians, song sessions, dances, etc. Website
Seth Tepfer’s List
Seth Tepfer of Atlanta maintains a listing of events at http://contradance.link/UpcomingEvents.
Contra Dance and Music
The Bay Area CDS and other California groups are hosting several events online, both on Facebook Live and Zoom. Start at bacds.org for a constantly-updated list and links.
There is a Thursday virtual dance from Seattle’s Lake City Contra series. Website
A contra Distance Dance from Atlanta happens on Fridays. Website
The Scissortail TDS of Oklahoma sponsors 4th Friday dances (and occasionally other days) of both contra and English. Website
The Portland (OR) Country Dance Community is producing live events called Portland Live. Website
English Country Dance
Dances for 1 or 2
There are several new dances being written or old ones adapted for one or two people. Choreography and other links are being collected here.
Videos of some of these dances have been collected by Bob Green. Website
Hundreds of people join Sharon Green and Kalia Kliban for the Odd Sunday English Dances that start at 3:30 CT on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays of each month. There’s no website, but you can email Sharon and ask to be put on the mailing list, and/or you can join the (very active) ECD mailing list for announcements of these and other events.
The Toronto ECD group does these dances over Zoom every Friday 6-8. Contact info@tecda.ca. Website
Atlanta DistDance sponsors ECD on some Mondays. Website
Symmetry ECD is a virtual dance community that holds several dances a week and has workshops for those who would like to call virtual dances. Website
Online ECD from the Folklore Society of Greater Washington (DC) on Wednesday evenings. Website
Oklahoma caller Louise Siddons created a video in which she teaches seven dances for solo dancers. The music is provided by Oklahoma musicians. YouTube
The Scissortail TDS of Oklahoma sponsors 4th Friday dances (and occasionally other days) of both contra and English. Website
Tapestry Folkdance Center of Minneapolis offers online ECD on Sunday evenings and International dances on Wednesday afternoons and Friday evenings. Website
International Folk Dance
IFD generally works quite well as solo dancing. There are dozens of Zoom sessions being run by people around the world. Some have 40 or so participants, but others have hundreds or even thousands of dancers all dancing together at the same time.
Here are a few:
- Houston and Austin are co-hosting a session every Friday from 7:30-9:30. See www.folkdancers.org for info.
- Roberto Bagnoli runs several sessions a week. See www.morenu.it for info.
- Folk Arts Center of New England has a session every Saturday from 1-3 CT. Most of these are workshops that teach the dances. See www.facone.org for info.
- Dance with Ira Weisburd. Includes line dancing on Tuesday mornings and Balkan on Saturdays at noon. On Facebook at Dance with Ira.
- Tapestry Folkdance Center of Minneapolis offers online ECD on Sunday evenings and International dances on Wednesday afternoons and Friday evenings. Website