BACDS (www.bacds.org) is participating in the Bay Area National Dance Week, which promotes
dancing of all types in the Bay Area. Instead of our typical half-hour orientation, we've got over
an hour of introduction (90 minutes Saturday, 75 on Wednesday.)

We're offering two introductory dances,
which are free, and if you attend the whole introductory dance, you can come to
the regular dance that follows for free, even if you're a regular dancer. For
each night, the introductory dance has the same caller and band as the regular
dance. Show up early, meet new people, have fun!

And bring your previously non-dancing friends! (Or tell people from work about
it, or whatever.)

No partner or previous experience required!


About BACDS dance events: www.bacds.org/newcomers


Here's the contra dance deal:

Saturday, April 21, _6:15-7:45: SPECIAL FREE SAN FRANCISCO CONTRA INTRO
8:00-11:00 REGULAR CONTRA DANCE (Free with class, ordinarily $10)
www.bacds.org/series/cont...n_francisco/
St. Paul's Church, 43d and Judah in San Francisco
FREE! An introduction to Contra Dancing Class for Bay Area National Dance
Week, with live music; Dancers who attend the entire free workshop will
also receive free admission to the regular dance following with the same
band and caller. Get 4.5 hours of contra dancing for free! And this is
a great time to bring your non-dancing friends!
with caller Susan Petrick (in town from Reno)
and music by W. B. Reid (Seattle), Kathrine Gardner, Craig Johnson


Here's the English dance deal:

Wednesday, April 25, 6:30-7:45 pm: SPECIAL FREE BERKELEY ENGLISH INTRO
8-10:30pm: REGULAR ENGLISH DANCE (Free with class, ordinarily $9)

www.bacds.org/series/engl...erkeley_wed/
Grace North Church, 2138 Cedar St. (near Oxford), Berkeley
with caller David Newitt
Music by The Figments
(Ethan Hazzard-Watkins (Brattleboro, VT), Anna Patton (Brattleboro),
Owen Morrison (Nashville, TN))
.
FREE! An introduction to English Country Dance Class for Bay Area National
Dance Week, with live music. Dancers who attend the entire free workshop will
receive free admission to the regular dance following, with the same band and
caller. The Figments toured here last year, and they're a terrific,
energetic band of 20somethings who'll get your feet moving.


Please help to get the word out!

-- Alan