About Us
The Portland Country Dance Community is a non-profit organization that promotes, preserves, and teaches traditional English and American music and dance in metropolitan Portland, Oregon. Our activities and programs include:
| English Country Dances: | ⋅ Every Friday evening at the Burlingame Water Tower Dance Hall ⋅ 2nd Sunday afternoons from October thru July, for an Advanced Dance at The Renaissance School |
| Contra Dances: | ⋅ PCDC hosts the 2nd, 4th and 5th Saturday evenings of every month at the Fulton Community Center |
| Family Dances: | ⋅ The 2nd Saturdays in October, November, January, February, March and April at the Fulton Community Center |
| Special Dances: | ⋅ Portland Megaband Benefit Contra Dance, 2nd Saturday in March. ⋅ Portland English Country Ball, 4th Saturday weekend in October. ⋅ New Year’s Contra Dance. |
| Dance Weekends: | ⋅ Portland Raindance, our spring in-town dance weekend, the last weekend in April. ⋅ Northwest Passage, ou Labor Day Weekend residential Dance Camp. |
| Music Jams and Classes: | ⋅ Dance Tune Sessions, 2nd Thursdays, October thru May. ⋅ Informal member-led music jam sessions, 1st & 3rd Mondays for Contra tunes, and 4th Wednesdays for English Country Dance tunes. |
| PCDC Grants: | ⋅ PCDC Grants Fund – to help PCDC members attend dance and music camps and workshops. |
Please be aware of our Safe Dancing Policy.
A more complete description of PCDC can be found in the PCDC bylaws.
Financials are available by request and a summary P&L will be found in the Sept-Oct newsletter for that year.