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  • Vacation and Exam time

    Tomorrow (3rd of April) we will have our last Ceilidh/Country class of the entire academic year. Well not entirely … One small set of events still holds out against boredom: Next week (10th April) we will show a group of American Students how do dance the Scottish way, come along and use the moves you…

  • SUSCDF Dec 8th!

    Scottish Universities Scottish Country Dance Festival is organised by the Dundee University Scottish Country Dance Society this year! When: 8th December, starting at 7pm. Where: Mark Henderson Hall, Ann Street, Dundee, DD3 7TH. Who (‘s playing): the one and only David Anderson band. Sign up sheets for New Scotlanders will come into existence at Lutton…

  • Beginners’ Dance Nov 24th!

    Time for our first dance of the year, Beginner’s Dance. The programme of the dance is aimed at people who have started dancing this year, it’s not scary and it is a chance for you to dress up and show off what you have learned so far, as well as (most importantly) to have fun…

  • New committee members

    The Committee would like to welcome… trrr(snare drums)… Irina Wernet as Freshers’ Rep Melanie Quintero Lena Bekken Laura Hillyard as new members to the New Scotland committee! It’s also nice to have Daniel Franzen continuing his great work in the committee 🙂 Freshers! (i.e. all members to have joined the society this year) note that…

  • Freshers’ weekend!!

    Fresher’s weekend is now round the corner, so it is a good time to start making everybody aware and start signing up. What happens is; We all go away somewhere for a weekend and the new members get to know the old members (as well as each other). This usually happens through a series of…

  • Flat Crawl Oct 3rd (NS social)

    it is time for the first social of the new NSCDS year! It is something called A Flat Crawl and it includes free food, so keep reading. Time: 3rd October (Wednesday next week!), 7pm Place: meet in front of Teviot, moving on together from there What: A multiple course meal in different flats, cooked and…

  • Beginners Dance

    Hey everyone!! Time has come for the first official dance this year, the Beginners Dance. The program is especially for beginners, and we will have gone through all of the dances in our classes. If you are still not sure whether to come or not, we will have a walkthrough in the afternoon of the…

  • Fresher’s Weekend

    Fresher’s Weekend is coming up quickly!! This is three days and three (very short) nights of dancing, silly games and having fun!! This is an event for old and new members, to get to know each other and have some amazing time together. We are going to Oban, a small town on the west coast…

  • A trophy for Edinburgh!

    Our dancers are back from Newcastle dance festival and brought with them a trophy: Together with our sister group Dunedin Dancers they won the display with their army style dance. Congratulations, you did a fantastic job!! For everyone interested: Here is the video.

  • Upcoming (away) events

    After a successful term start with many new people, a fun pub quiz and fantastic refreshers’ weekend as well as our fabulous Annual Dance the next few months will be filled with more dancing, mostly away from Edinburgh. We’ll have buses going to all the events so please remember the following dates if you’re interested…