Cambridge University English Country Dance Club
English Country Dancing offers a wide variety of dances, from lively and energetic to smooth and graceful, set to wonderful tunes from a wide range of composers from Trad through Purcell and Handel and Mozart to many modern composers writing specifically for dancing. Some dances are easy, others are more of a challenge, but they are all taught and called, so you don’t need to have any previous experience of the form. We also dance some American contras and squares. All are welcome to join us; you don’t need to come with a partner, and we usually change partners for each dance anyway. Note that this is social dancing, quite different from display styles such as Morris.
There’s an enthusiastic report on our club in Varsity!
The Weekly Round normally meets every Thursday in Full Term, 8.00–10.00 p.m., in the Wesley Church Hall, King Street.
The last meeting of the Easter Term was on Thursday 15th June. The next regular meeting will be on Thursday 5th October. However there will be meetings of the Summer Round on Thursday evenings, weather and numbers permitting. Sign up to soc-round-chat to find out where and when it’s happening.
Please read our Covid-19 guidelines before attending any of our meetings.
See the Diary page for details of other events, including the Playford Ball on 17th June.
Club stuff
| About the Round Diary of events Ceilidhs The Big Round Band The Playford Ball The Punt Party The Summer Round The Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival Maps to meetings and events |
Mailing lists you should be on Links to further information Our constitution Our etiquette guide Core repertoire of dances Hugh’s history of the Round Dance history of dances called at the weekly Round The Old Round, History of London Pride Web site credits |
Dance and music resources
| Index of resources on this site What are Playford dances? Includes a Playford family tree Elements of English Country Dance (comprehensive explanation of Country Dance terminology) Dancing well is more fun A definitive answer about Siding Notes on Calling The Perfect Caller Teaching points Palmer’s Pocket Playford (an aide-memoire of common Playford dances) Kentucky Running Set (as danced by the Round) The Country Dance Book (original Cecil Sharp publications which started all of this) The Round Band Book of Playford (music to Palmer’s Pocket Playford) FAQs for schoolteachers |
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Please report any problems with this site (missing pages, broken links, errors in information, etc., etc.) to the webmaster, currently ‘ajs1 at cam dot ac dot uk’. General enquiries about the Round may be addressed to ‘round at CambridgeSU dot co dot uk’.