Live Dances and Performances
Our weekly dances are on again!
Thursday evenings, 7:30-9, St. Matthias Hall, Victoria BC
Hosted by the Victoria English Country Dance Society
For more info or to RSVP, email Ann at aschau@shaw.ca or text to 250-213-3679
2025 dates
Saturday February 1 (7-10pm) Victoria Contra Dance St. Luke’s
Caller Maya Roe
Sunday February 16 Vancouver English Country Dance Cambrian Hall
Callers Heather Webster & Maria Kelly
Fri-Sun April 11-13 Victoria Ball Edelweiss Hall
Caller Susan Kevra | Registration - contact vecds.bc.ca
Sunday April 13 (afternoon) Music workshop with Rachel Bell
Registration - contact aschau@shaw.ca
Saturday June 14 Jane Austen Victoria Ball White Eagle Hall
Caller Laura Mé Smith | For information contact https://www.jasnavictoria.ca
Fri-Sun September 5-7 Hands Across The Water 2025
Caller Laura Mé Smith | Details TBA
Aug 7 2022 - the Dancehall Players and a group of Victoria English Country Dancers took the ferry to Mayne Island to spend the afternoon dancing, visiting and laughing with our Mayne Island friends. We recorded this Duke of Kent dance for our dear friend Carol Smithe who passed away recently.
Keith Malcolm and Ann Schau of The Dancehall Players play at Craigdarroch Castle in December 2010. This was the first time that we played this lovely tune, For Musical Friends, written by fellow band member, Karen McIvor. We recorded it in 2016 for our third album, Fresh From Dan's Hall - original tunes by The Dancehall Players.
Enjoy a video of new ECD choreography by Renée Camus, danced to Red-Tailed Hawk by Lael Whitehead from the Dancehall Players’ 2020 album Out Of The Silence.
”I wrote it on May 14, 2021, and finalized it on July 2, 2021. I intentionally wanted to write an easy dance, which is something I've had trouble doing so far. So far people seem to like it. :)” -Renée
This was recorded in Skandia Hall in Pasadena, CA on June 16, 2021 at the "Dance Kitchen", a special opportunity for callers to try out new choreographies.
Filmed live at Christ Church Cathedral. The Dancehall Players (Ann, Barrie, Gregory and Lael, with guest Brenda Callan on violin) were invited to participate in a day-long festival of music at Christ church Cathedral in Victoria BC November 20, 2021.
Tunes played:
Part 1
Gum Wrappers Drifting in the Wind (Dan Page)
Waiting for Spring (Ann Schau)
Trip to Mayne / Oscar the Flying Poodle (Karen McIvor / Keith Malcolm)
Faeries and Fools (Lael Whitehead)
Smokey Skies (Ann Schau)
A Dream of Dancing (Lael Whitehead)
Part 2
The Stay At Home Blues (Ann Schau)
Tendresse (Gregory Brown)
Red-Tailed Hawk (Lael Whitehead)
Waltz for Jen (Lael Whitehead)
The festival was a Cathedral choir tour fundraiser. To make a gift to the choir: https://givepoint.com/christchurchcathedral/chorister-travel-fund
Video used with permission.


