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

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

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