Nearby Dances

Dance groups doing similar dance forms, or connected with Germantown Country Dancers in some way. For an up-to-date listing of a much larger range of folk and participatory dance forms in the Philadephia area, check out phillydance.com.

Page updated January 2025

Philadelphia and North Suburbs

• Germantown Country Dancers, 1st Saturdays, English Country Dancing for experienced dancers, 7:30 - 10:30pm, Summit Church, Mt. Airy.
• Barn Dance for all ages. 1st Sundays Nov-May, 2:30pm, Summit Church, Mt. Airy. (Sponsored by Germantown Country Dancers)
• English Country Dancing, 1st Fridays, Newtown, PA (Run by the Lambertville Country Dancers even though it's in PA.)
• Thursday Night Contra The Irish Center, Mt. Airy, PA.
• Third Saturday Contra Dance Summit Church, Mt. Airy, PA.
• West Philly Square Dance (FB) 2nd Saturdays. West side of Penn Campus.
• Fiddlekicks Cloggers. Saturday mornings in Ambler, some classes in Mt. Airy.
• Delaware Valley Scottish Dance Tuesdays, Chestnut Hill. Fridays, Center City Philadelphia.

Mainline

• Germantown Country Dancers, English Country Dancing for all. Wednesday evenings, 8 - 10:15pm, Merion Friends Activity Building, Merion, PA.
• Kingsessing Morris. Monday nights, Merion Friends Activity Building, Merion, PA.

Delco (S & W Suburbs)

• Gentle English 1st and 3rd Thursday afternoons 2 - 4pm. Park Avenue Community Center, Swarthmore, PA.
  ECD at a relaxed pace, mostly familiar figures and dances.
• Park Avenue Contra: 2nd & 4 Tuesdays, 7:30-9:30pm, Park Avenue Community Center in Swarthmore, PA.
• 18th Century English Country Dance. 1st Wednesdays, Chadds Ford, PA. Contact: George & Lynne Tolton, , ,   610-431-2359
• Delaware Valley Scottish Dance Mondays, Clifton Heights.
• Mostly Waltz. 3rd Sundays. Broomall, PA.

West and North of the Philadelphia Region

• Birdsboro Contra 1st Saturdays during school year.
• Lancaster Contra 3rd Saturdays.
• The Tapestry Historic Dance Ensemble: Colonial, Regency, and Victorian eras. 1st, 2nd, 4th Thursdays in Royersford, PA (near Valley Forge). 3rd Thursdays in Bryn Mawr. Private venues - We welcome dancers but must have advance

Delaware

• English & Scottish class series, several a year, Thursday evenings. In Arden. (north of Wilmington). Contact: Line Farr
• Delaware Valley Scottish Dance Monday nights, Newark.
• Dover Dancers English Country and Colonial dancing. 2nd Saturdays, also demonstration group and special events.

South Jersey

• Princeton Country Dancers: Contra and English. Wednesdays, 2nd and 4th Saturdays, plus special events, All-ages Community dance.
• Princeton Country Dancers also sponsor 3 performance groups: Handsome Molly,
  Griggstown Lock (Rapper),
  Millstone River Morris