Home Calendar About Us The Scotia Dancers of New York offer regular classes and parties in traditional Scottish dancing, a dance form that combines exercise, sociability and stirring Scottish music. It is a form of pattern dancing performed in sets similar to contra or square dancing. You do not need previous dancing experience or a partner to enjoy yourself. Classes are held Monday evenings at the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, 30 East 31st Street, New York, NY. We began the Fall Season with a party on 10 September and then started regular classes on 17 September. On 29 September we cosponsored  an English-Scottish Workshop and Dance. Our next special event is the Halloween Party on 29 October. Many dancers attend in costume, but it is not necessary to wear one. Please join us. If you are a Scottish dance teacher that plans to visit with us, please let us know if you wish to teach a dance. There is no expectation that you do so, but if you have a dance you wish to share, we want to offer you that opportunity. The Tartan Week (or fortnight) ended with the Tartan Day Parade on 14 April 2007. The Scotia Dancers had a marching position and invited others to join us. We combined forces with the New York Celtic Dancers and the New York Lyric Circus and marched as the last unit in the parade. This gave us a chance to perform in front of the reviewing stand without any urgency to move on. The audience loved our blend of country dancing, juggling and highland dancing. Our unit was featured in the only photo that the NY Daily News had for the parade coverage. We also were the subject in 3 of the 10 photos on the NY Daily News web site parade coverage. Of course, our own photographers also helped memorialize the day for us. The Scotia Dancers is an affiliated group of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society.*   Our Monday Evenings Class Schedule:   Scottish Country Dance Class -- 7:00 - 8:15 Tea                  -- 8:15 - 8:30 Social Dancing               -- 8:30 - 9:45        Fees: $8.00 per session for (complete evening)        $75.00 for a 10-class card (Valid any class night thru 6/11/07 except party nights) Scotia Dancers Membership Dues    $10.00 *Membership in the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (RSCDS), which is encouraged but not required, gives the right to apply for the RSCDS Summer School at St. Andrews, Scotland, and at the TAC School in Canada, receipt of the annual bulletin, and a book of dances. Our traditional parties includes a Burns Night Dance each year in January to celebrate the birth of Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet. We have haggis, neeps and tatties in the traditional ceremony concluding with Burns' Address to a Haggis. Copyright © 1998-2007 by the Scotia Dancers and Scotia Dance and Music Publishers. This page last updated 21 October 2007.