The Chiswick Scottish Country Dance Club (CSCDC) is a relatively new group. It met for the first time on 20th January 2002 and has grown and flourished quite remarkably since then. It has a team of dedicated teachers, a membership of around 40, and dances on a Sunday evening. In 2005 we added a Beginners Class so that newcomers could learn the basic steps and formations without being thrown in at the deep end to dance with the more experienced dancers before they knew what they were supposed to be doing!  This class is now well established and has about 16 beginners signed up for the current term (Summer 2008).

At the end of each term we have special events when we have live music. At Christmas we have our annual ball, called 'Kilts and Posh Frocks', when we are sometimes joined by dancers from all over London and from as far afield as Oxford and Brighton. In the summer we hold an open air dance in the grounds of Chiswick House. We picnic first and then dance the evening away. As the sun begins to set and the shadows lengthen there is a truly magical atmosphere.  The event has really earned the name 'Midsummer Magic'. We have had a French evening called 'The Auld Alliance' (the old friendship between Scotland and France) when we donned berets and hooped T-shirts and another year we re-enacted the Declaration of Arbroath 1320, in which Scotland asserted its wish to remain independent of England.  Now, however, our Easter end of term party is a 'Graduation Dance' at which beginners  who have made particular progress are given a 'Graduation Certificate' and once they have obtained that they can stay on after the tea break to dance with the more experienced dancers.

Not a Scot?  Not a problem!  Very few of us are Scottish as a matter of fact, but we all enjoy the wonderful exercise (both physical and mental) and the camaraderie that exists in the club.  Newcomers are always welcome; why not come and join us?