3:16pm Friday 5th September 2003
Ballroom Dancing
For Active Generation at the Sacred Heart Parish Centre, London Road, Bushey, every Tuesday from 2pm to 4pm (except March 25 and April 1). Cost: £1.50. Glenda Hunt 020 8207 5166
Bernice Waldren School of Ballet (Cecchetti Method)
In Harpenden. Adult classes on Monday evenings, all levels welcome. Miss Bernice Waldren, principal 01582 769531
Carol Kristian Theatre School
Memorial Hall, Chorleywood. Offers classes in ballet, modern, tap, jazz, drama and singing for children aged three to 18. Meets from Monday to Friday after school and on Saturday mornings: Carol
Kristian, principal 01923 284599
carol.kristian@lineone.net
http://www.carolkristiantheatreschool.co.uk
Castle Street Dance Studio
St Peters Church Hall, Berry Lane, Mill End, Rickmansworth. Teaches classical ballet, tap dancing and modern stage dancing to children aged three to 18 and follows the Imperial Society of the
Teachers of Dance syllabus. Meets on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 3.30pm to 9pm during term time. Cost for 13-week term is £33 to £35. Also does Associate teaching qualifications: Charlotte
Lowe 01494 721536
Charters Health Club at YMCA
Offers line dancing and street jazz classes as part of its seven-day health and fitness programme: 01923 233034
Cottonmill Clog Morris side
Meets every Wednesday in the winter from 8pm to 10pm at Tyttenhanger. Dance out from May to September. Perform North West Morris style of dance. Anne Bailey 01442 214998
Croxley Green International Folk Dancers
Offers instruction for any standard. Meets at the Croxley Green Community Centre on Fridays from 2pm to 4pm (except August) and at the Red Cross Centre, Barton Way on Wednesdays from 8pm to 10pm.
Perform demonstrations in costume. Mrs Joyce Sharp 01923 228080
Croxley Green English Folk Dance Club
Meets at St Bede's Hall, Baldwins Lane, Croxley Green, at 8pm every Tuesday (except August). Everybody welcome, cost £1. Mr D L E Searls, secretary, 020 8950 5756
English Miscellany Folk Dance Group
Holds classes in morris, country, clog and court dancing. Meets at East Hyde Village Hall, Luton Road, Harpenden, on Wednesday, from 8pm to 10pm. Janet Jones 01494 772543
The Eleanor School of Dancing
Offers Tuesday classes in country and western line dancing from 7pm to 8pm, children's disco from 4.30pm to 8pm. Meets at St Francis Church Hall, Glenview Road, Boxmoor. 01494 758330
English Folk Dance and Song Society Sandridge Club
Small group which meets at St Pauls Church, Blandford Rd, St Albans, at 2pm on alternate Mondays. Miss Mary Masterton 01727 840582
Gypsy Booth School of Ballet and Theatre Arts
For children, students and adults. Offers classes in ballet (Russian method), jazz, ISTD Modern Dance, contemporary dance, tap, drama, musical theatre and singing. Meets at The Centre, Gosforth Lane,
South Oxhey, and Carpenders Park Community Hall on Monday afternoons: Gypsy Booth 020 8428 4954
The Harpenden Scottish Country Dance Club
Offer beginners' classes on Thursday and social dancing on Tuesday, both from 8pm to 10pm. Meet at Lourdes Hall, Southdown Road, Harpenden. Cost is £2. Secretary Phil Bray 01582 617734, Chairman Jan
Walker 01707 896069 Tom Busby, beginner classes 01992 581592
philip.bray@virgin.net
Hiel' and Toe Club
Offers Scottish Country and Highland Dancing for children and adults. Meets at various halls in Harpenden at various times from Monday to Saturday. Cost is £3.50 an hour Mrs Glenday Thomas 01582
769607
Lorraine's School of Dance and Drama
Offers classes in ballet, tap, national, modern and jazz. Meets at north Watford Youth and Community Centre, Southwold Road, Watford, Monday to Friday from 3pm onwards and all day Saturday: Lorraine
01923 234179
Paul Alex School of Dancing
Offers classes in ballroom dancing and Latin American Dancing for beginners and intermediate adults. Meets at 14 Nascot Road, Watford, seven days a week. Mr Paul Alex 01923 223904
Penny Waterman School of Dancing
66 Cotton Mill Lane, St.Albans, Herts, AL1 2EP 01727 219498
terencemcleod@aol.com
Phoenix Morris
Is a mixed Cotswold Morris side, special tradition Stretton. Meets at Scout Hut, Ebury Road, Rickmansworth, at 8.30pm on Wednesdays. Dances out every summer and donates money to local charity.
Musicians and dancers always welcome: Michael Stimpson 01923 770425
Pump House Clog Morris
For women dancers and mixed musicians. Meets at Pump House, Local Board Road, Watford, on Mondays at 8pm from September to May. During summer the group performs at various venues. Cost £5 a month:
Gill Ball 01923 441663
Rachelle School of Ballet
Offers the Cecchetti Society's syllabuses of graded examinations for both children over three years and vocational students. Meets Tuesday to Friday from 4.30pm onwards at St Lawrence Church Hall,
Abbots Langley Daphne Cooper, principal, 01923 243959
Rees-Fisher School of Dance and Theatre
Teaches classical ballet under the Royal Academy of Dancing syllabus, ISTD tap and modern, and drama. Meets at St James' Church Hall, Bushey, on Friday; St Oswald's Church Hall, Malvern Way, Croxley
Green, on Wednesday; New Road Methodist Church Hall, Croxley Green on Tuesday. Also at Countess Anne School, Hatfield.
Shows at Watersmeet in Rickmansworth: Paulene Rees-Fisher 01494 792996
Renegade's Rebels and Rogues American Line Dancing
At The Barbirolli Hall, St Clements Danes School, Chenies Road, Chorleywood.
Meets every Thursday from 8pm to 11pm, admission £5: Alan 020 8241 6434
Salsa Parties and Merengue
Meets every Sunday at the David Lloyd Club in Bushey from 7pm for basic and intermediate salsa and merengue tuition and Tuesdays at the Irish Club, Wiggenhall Road Watford from 7.15pm. Classes
followed by social dancing. Tuition from £6 plus membership: Richard Putko 07944 462461/07956 207458
http://www.salsaduende.com
Saturday Night Live
Ballroom dancing at The Colosseum, Rickmansworth Road, Watford. Held at various times throughout the year: manager John Wallace 01923 445300 box office 01923 445000 Philip Wylie 01895 632143
St Albans Ballet Club
For further details: Mrs Benita Cullingford 01727 857388 Mrs Mary Cook 01727 865979
St Albans Morris Men
Practise from September to April in the Scout Hut, Riverside Road, St Albans, on Mondays, from 8pm to 10pm. Dance out from May 1, including May Day in the city centre at 6am: Trevor Adams 01707
833476
bagman@stalbansmorrismen.org.uk
Tea Dancing
Watersmeet in Rickmansworth. Held on one Friday a month, hosted by Jack Frost, from 2pm to 4.30pm. £2 on the door, includes free tea and biscuits 01923 771542
Watford Country Music and Line Dancing Club
Meets on Monday at the Holyrood Community Centre, Tolpits Lane, Watford, from 8pm to 11pm, for all levels and beginners welcome. Cost is £4 Bob 01923 245554
Watford Folk Dance Group
Meets to enjoy folk dancing at Christchurch Hall, St Albans Road, Mondays from September - July (except bank holidays), 8pm - 10pm.
Details available on 01923 354278
Email: philippawest@aol.com
Watford Dance Festival
Promotes a competitive annual festival of dance (classical, modern and national styles) in Watford on the first three weekends in May.
Contact: 01923 226170
Woodside Morris Men
Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Meets at Pump House, Local Board Road, Watford, from 8pm to 10.45pm on Wednesdays from September to April. Men's Cotswold, new dancers and musicians
welcome. Cost approximately £10 per year: Roger Bangs 01923 720143
http://www.mymores.com/woodside
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