Spring Tea Dance

Monday, June 1, 2026

Saturday was our spring Tea Dance for our Scottish Country Dance group. We just finished our third year of dance classes and I’m just now starting to feel like I’m becoming an OK dancer. Until recently, if we were doing a dance that is new to me, it would take several tries before I could catch on, but in the classes, you don’t get several tries. You walk through it and after a couple of walk through’s they dance the dance and then you move on. In the beginner class they focus on the steps and a few simple figures and in the intermediate class they learn all kinds of new dances, but they move rather fast.

At the last big dance party we did, I found out about an app where you could download videos of the dances for upcoming events. The dances are all rated as being easy, medium or hard. I picked the dances I wanted to do and made sure I didn’t dance the dance just prior to the one I wanted to dance. I sat through the dance before the one I wanted to participate in and went through the video repeatedly until I had it stuck in my brain. It worked very well and I had a great time, but I only got to dance half the dances.

For the tea dance, both of our classes focused on the upcoming dances, so I was relatively prepared and then I used my app to embed the dance moves into my brain. I danced every dance and had a blast. It was a very fun weekend. That dance was in the Balboa Park Club building and the atmosphere was amazing. I also got to wear my kilt.

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The first collection of Scottish Country dances was publish in 1724. 

Those dances (and the music) are still danced today.

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