Calendar
Events in May 2024
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PCDC FREE Community Jam Session
PCDC FREE Community Jam Session
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Thu May 9, 2024Leader: TBA
Time: 7-9pm
Location: TBA (email sharonjeanallen@yahoo.com)
No cost to participants! All instruments, all levels welcome!
Once per quarter we'll gather for a community jam session. Tunes will be played by ear from the common contra dance repertoire. For recordings of tunes taught at past 2nd Thursday Tune Teaching sessions, see:
If you are interested in learning more tunes by ear, the Contra Tune Teaching Sessions are FREE and meet the 2nd Thursday of the month. Tunes are taught by George Penk or Betsy Branch, alternating between SW and SE Portland. The focus is on developing a common repertoire to play by ear at 5th Saturday Open Band and at community jam sessions. The repeated monthly schedule through Spring is:
||: George | Betsy | jam :||
For more information and to get on the email announcement list:
sharonjeanallen@yahoo.com
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PCDC 2nd Saturday Contra: The Euphemists w/Gordy Euler
PCDC 2nd Saturday Contra: The Euphemists w/Gordy Euler
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Sat May 11, 2024
Our Saturday night series at Fulton Hall continues! The Euphemists (Dave Goldman, Alan Snyder, Kaye Blesener, Greg Martin, and Stephanie Shea) will make music for us. Gordy Euler will call dances using gender-neutral terms.
Covid precautions are suspended indefinitely! We will continue to monitor potential exposures at PCDC events and adjust policies as needed. Refer to the PCDC Covid policy for details.
7:00 pm newcomer/refresher lesson
7:30 pm dancing starts
10:30 dancing ends
Some dancers head to a pub for "afters" -- all are welcome! -
(Mask Optional) PCDC 2nd Sunday English Dance for experienced dancers: Fine Companions and friends
(Mask Optional) PCDC 2nd Sunday English Dance for experienced dancers: Fine Companions and friends
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Sun May 12, 2024This is a mask optional event. Vaccinations and boosters are not required, but encouraged.
The 2nd Sunday English Dance for Experienced Dancers is an opportunity to dance to the music of Fine Companions (and Friends).
The dances will be a balance of familiar dances and unfamiliar dances.
The callers will encourage dancers to incorporate style points such as quality of movement, timing, transitions and dancing with the music.
We ask that dancers be comfortable dancing standard English Dance figures including:
- Heys in various orientations
- Regular and Double figure eights
- Triple minor progressions
- Dancing with couples outside of your group of 4
- Straight and draw poussettes.If you are not familiar with these figures we recommend that you attend the PCDC Friday Night English Dance to become comfortable with these figures before attending the 2nd Sunday English Dance for Experienced Dancers. (Note: No street shoes permitted beyond the entrance of the Renaissance School )
For more information about English Dance, please see: https://portlandcountrydance.org/english-country-dance/
Questions? Email our ecd-chair@portlandcountrydance.org
Admission: Sliding Scale $10 - $20.
If you test positive for COVID after attending a PCDC event, please email igotcovid@portlandcountrydance.org to tell us when you tested positive, what event you attended, and any symptoms you might want to mention. We will never reveal your identity.
Location: A Renaissance School of Arts and Science Ballroom
234 S Bancroft St
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PCDC English Country Dance Committee meeting
PCDC English Country Dance Committee meeting
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Mon May 13, 2024The English Country Dance Committee meetings are held in odd months, on-line, from 7:00 – 9:00.
Meetings are open to all PCDC members. If interested in attending and/ or volunteering, please email ecd-chair@portlandcountrydance.org
Contact organizerPCDC PDX Contra Committee meetingPCDC PDX Contra Committee meeting
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Mon May 13, 2024The Portland Contra Committee meets (usually) on 2nd Monday's to support the needs of Contra dance events and dancers.
Meeting locations vary and may be online. Meetings are open to all PCDC members. If interested in attending, volunteering, or would like a Zoom link, please email contra-chair@portlandcountrydance.org.
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PCDC Board Meeting
PCDC Board Meeting
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Tue May 21, 2024The PCDC Board meets (usually) on the 3rd Tuesday of the month to address tactical and strategic issues facing the organization.
Meeting locations vary. Meetings are open to all PCDC members.
If interested in attending email board-chair@portlandcountrydance.org
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NO 4th Saturday Contra: Go to NW Folklife in Seattle instead!
NO 4th Saturday Contra: Go to NW Folklife in Seattle instead!
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Sat May 25, 2024
Many dancers will attend the Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle for Memorial Day Weekend. Join us!NO DANCE AT FULTON ON THIS DATE!