What are our classes like?

First, don’t worry about what to wear to class...whatever you find comfortable. After you’ve sampled a session or two, if you’re enjoying yourself and want to continue you may want to buy dance shoes – our members often wear ‘jazz’ shoes or ballroom dance shoes which are flexible and don’t fall off when things get lively!

Our classes are co-operative. That means there’s no one ‘teacher.’ Instead, the more experienced dancers take it in turns to introduce and "call" the dances that we’re learning. Steps and sequences are clearly explained and demonstrated but we remember that Jane Austen and her contemporaries did this to enjoy themselves. Usually, we walk through each dance step-by-step first, We have the same goal - to have fun and enjoy ourselves whilst learning and dancing the sets, cotillions and quadrilles of this fascinating period.