Scottish Dancing on the North Shore

This is the start place for all beginners and those exploring Scottish Country Dancing for the first time.

This is also an excellent class for current members who want low impact, or practice with footwork and formations.  

All North Shore Dance Scottish members are welcome to this class.

MONDAY - BASICS CLASS    7:15 - 9:15   Arbutus Room  

Delbrook Rec Center, 851 Queens Av North Vancouver V7N 4E3 

The last class of the Spring term April 14, 2025.

Our Challenge Class is for dancers with significant experience who wish a challenge in their own personal dancing technique as well as learning new and more difficult formations and dances. 

To participate, please contact the instructor.

Extra effort and commitment is expected.

This class is held in the Canyon Room of the Lions Gate Community Center

1733 Lions Gate Lane  (off Capilano Road, walkable from Marine Drive)  4 -6 pm

The last Challenge class is March 25, 2025

  Alison has a long history with Scottish Country Dancing on the North Shore. Her parents were avid Scottish Country dancers and started taking Alison to 'Dancing in the Park' at age 6.  Alison joined the Gleneagles club in the 1970's and remembers dancing in Simon's advanced class. 

   Many years later, Alison and her husband began dancing with the Deep Cove club. As her children got older she was able to participate in more events - including the demonstration team. Teachers Dorothy Hargreaves (Deep Cove) and Jean Dodds (visiting from Australia) urged Alison to get her Teachers certificate, which she did in 2013 and 2015.  

   Alison is now a key member of the Vancouver Scottish Country dance community. - teaching on the North Shore, coordinating Dancing in the Park, dancing with the demonstration team, and teaching / calling at Vancouver Ceilidhs, She has found her dance activities to be a great balance to her work in computer system design, and now for 'what to do when retired'.

  Kay started Scottish Country Dancing in elementary school in Scotland where it was part of the school program. On arriving in Canada as an adult, she missed the music and informal dancing common at many Scottish social events such as weddings and parties. Her neighbour, Dorothy Hargreaves, started a new club in Deep Cove in 1986 and Kay was happy to be a member of the first Deep Cove class. She began teaching the beginner and intermediate class there in 2008 and the experienced/ advanced class in 2011 after receiving her full teaching certificate. She joined the Demonstration Team in 2003 under Simon Scott’s leadership and became Director of the team in 2016. She has taught Step Dance at the Scottish Cultural Centre since 2014. More recently, she has become a rscds Tutor training new dance teachers.