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Houston Area Traditional Dance Society

Houston Area Traditional Dance Society

Membership 2025-2026

All memberships must be entered and paid online. We no longer accept paper forms or take cash or checks for memberships.

All payments are processed through PayPal, but you don't need a PayPal account. You can use a credit card or a debit card instead.

Safety Agreement

The Houston Area Traditional Dance Society (HATDS) strives to ensure a safe dance environment for all participants and takes reasonable steps to do so. The venues where we hold our events do the same.

These steps include

  • limiting the number of participants when necessary;
  • posting and enforcing our Code of Conduct (PDF), including denying admission to anyone who violates the Code of Conduct;
  • encouraging good social and dance etiquette.

It is impossible to eliminate all risk. By joining HATDS and participating in any HATDS-sponsored event, everyone listed on this membership

  • acknowledges that the close contact inherent in contra and English country dancing involves some risk, including the transmission of infectious diseases and physical injury;
  • accepts the risks inherent in that event.

Everyone on this membership also agrees to do their part in minimizing risks by, among other actions,