Resources: Dance Lessons and Venues

More Places to Dance

The calendar on Friends of Country Dance lists many places to dance. Check with each venue to confirm before going.

• Country by the Bay has dancing on the second Saturday of the month in Chesapeake, VA. See Friends of Country Dance for more information.
• Colvin Run – Various dances include Country-Western among other dance types
• DeniDanzco – Swing, country, salsa and more
• The Glen Echo Park in Bethesda, MD
• Hollywood Ballroom in Silver Spring, MD,  country dance & lessons on 1st & 3rd Wednesdays.
• The Original Cancun Cantina in Hanover, MD (near the BWI airport)

Local small businesses (both are woman-owned) offering country line dancing and lessons:

• Dancing and lessons with LineDance4You, at various bars, breweries and wineries in Northern Virginia.
• Dancing and lessons with Sharon’s School of Dance in Frederick County, MD.

Facebook: there are a number of Facebook groups about country-western dancing in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area: W.I.L.D., Virginia Line Dance Festival, DC Area Country Dancers, All About Line Dance VA/MD/DC, Backroom Brewery Line Dancers,  MD Country Western Dancers, Virginia Line Dancers, Tush Push Line and Couples Dancing, Line Dancers on Facebook, Mid-Atlantic Dance Classic, Firehouse Fridays.

Venues: some bars and restaurants occasionally host line dance groups: the Bluemont Station Brewery and Winery in Bluemont, CraftWorx Taproom in Gainesville, the Loudoun Kitchen and Bar in Leesburg, Madigan’s Waterfront in Occoquan, Ned Devine’s Irish Pub in Herndon, the Salisbury Center in Manassas, and the Tucked Away Brewing Company in Manassas.

More Lessons

NVCWDA offers dance lessons at the beginning of each dance, usually one line dance (half hour) and one couples dance (half hour). We also review recently taught dances on a regular basis.  See our list of recently taught line dances, and partner dances.

Some NVCWDA members offer lessons as part of community programs. Check with the organizer about registration, and fees before you go.

• Fairfax County Parktakes
• Fairfax County Senior Centers
• Arlington County 55+ Program
• Herndon Senior Center
• Loudoun County Senior Centers

Many other dance places and clubs offer lessons as do some of the dance studios in the area. Start with a Facebook search for events and groups.

Dance Stepsheets

By far, the best site for line dance and partner dance stepsheets is CopperKnob. It has tens of thousands of stepsheets, each with a list of videos of the dance.

Videos

One of the best YouTube channels to learn line dances is Jenny. She has several channels with thousands of videos each with a demo and a lesson: LineDanceDallas3 and LineDanceDallas5. For partner dances Alan and Sonia is a great channel.

NVCWDA usually offers a couples dance lesson and a line dance lesson before each dance. Here we are learning a couples dance.