Join us for fun, community-building English country dances! All are welcome, no experience or partner needed! 2nd and 4th Sundays in Culver City, CA.
Culver City English Country Dance is a community of dancers from the Los Angeles area, especially Culver City, who gather together to exercise, have fun, and build community through traditional English country dancing. We’re not a performing troupe, so anyone and everyone is welcome to join! No partner or experience necessary to come and enjoy the dancing!
CCECD was co-founded by James Hutson and Annie Laskey in 2006 to provide a venue for English Country Dancing on Southern California’s Westside. Lindberg Park Stone House in Culver City was available starting on the fourth Sunday of January that year. Annie and James have organized the CCECD dances for the past 11 years. We’re affiliated with the California Dance Co-operative.
If you’ve ever seen a movie or TV adaptation of a Jane Austen film, then you’ve seen English Country Dancing (ECD). But contemporary ECD in the United States is not an obscure historical relic but a thriving social activity enjoyed by large numbers of people of all ages.
Our dances always feature live music, played by the area’s most accomplished musicians. The music is hauntingly beautiful and offers tremendous variety; sometimes sweet and melodic, at other times absolutely driven with a pulsating beat.
Dancers get swept away as they become one with the music, interacting with each other as they move and weave through the patterns they create. Figures are taught and dances are prompted by a caller, so no experience, or partner, is required.
Check out our website for more information, including our address and admission costs, our upcoming and past schedule, callers and musicians, and explanations on what English country dancing is, including videos both from CCECD and from some of our favorite Jane Austen films.
http://culvercityecd.com/
Culver City English Country Dance is a social dance encompassing the spectrum of ECD from the 17th Century to the present. Welcoming to youth and adults of all experience levels, we promote community and encourage good dancing through friendly dancers, live music, and a pleasant and informal atmosphere.
