BSCDC - Events

Hello and welcome to the web-site of the Berne Scottish Country Dance Club.

As is usual, the useful information on this site is visible from a bunch of separate pages. The links in the frame on the left hand side should be self explanatory, however, should this not in fact be the case, here follows some more verbose descriptions.

General

The Berne SCDC was founded in 1989 in order that a group of ex-Pats (mostly Scottish) plus a few Swiss who were fans of Scotland could get together and have some fun in a distinctively Scottish fashion.

The kind of dancing we do is set dancing (usually 4 couples in a single set) - not to be confused with Highland dance, which is the energetic solo stuff. We do try to get the dance technique "right". However this is not the main aim. The main aim is to have fun.

Stop Press - New dancing location

St. Ursula's Church
Jubiläumsplatz 2, Bern

Is it for you?

Are you the correct kind of person for Scottish Country Dance (SCD)? To find out, answer the following questions:

Are you Scottish, Swiss, British, English-speaking, European, from either of the American continents, Asian, African or from the Antipodes? Failing that, human? (Sorry. We do have a "No Orang-Utans allowed" policy.[*])
Are you male or female?
Do you have either a) a dancing partner or b) no dancing partner
Are you between the ages of 15 and 90?
Do you like to move to music?

If you can answer yes to most of these, then you are a good candidate.

[*] Special cases made for Orang-Utans who additionally serve as Librarians.

Where when and what.

Our dancing evening is Thursday. We meet in the hall of St. Ursula's Church . We generally dance on the first and third Thursdays of the month, however things like holidays and special events do cause us to miss some. You will find here the definitive list of dancing dates and the evening's timetable.

The dances we do are fixed choreographies. Some of these are over 200 years old, some have been devised this year. In fact, we have even gone so far as to devise some dances ourselves .

Events.

Apart from the normal dancing evenings, we usually organise the following special events:

Burns' Supper around January (this year 18 January 2008)
Spring Dance in April/May (this year 31 May 2008)
Annual General Meeting (20 June 2008 - Juraweg 17, Wahlendorf
St. Andrews Night Ball in November (not yet decided if this will take place 2008)

By following this link you will see a list of forthcoming SCD events in Switzerland and the neighbouring regions.

Committee.

You can directly contact our committee members by examining the information on this page .