Other Local and Regional Dances

Check the website or Facebook pages for dances and weekends to see if dancing has resumed

Nearby Contra dances

• Berea, KY
• Cincinnati
• Cleveland
• Dayton
• Granville Barn Dance
• Indianapolis
• Lexington, KY
• Louisville, KY
• Pittsburgh
• Wooster, OH (English Country)

Nearby Contra Dance Weekends

• Contra Swing Shift – Lexington/Berea – January 26-27, 2024
• Pigtown Fling – Cincinnati – March 22-24, 2024
• Whitewater Whirl – Fayetteville WV – May 3-5, 2024
• Contra Dancers Delight (Summer) – Northeast TN – May 10-17, 2024
• Buffalo Gap Retreat – Buffalo Gap, WV June 23-25, 2024
• Dance Trance – Lexington, KY – June 7-9, 2024
• River Rendezvous – Coshocton Lake Park, Coshocton, OH – July 12-14, 2024 (contact jimsedivy@prodigy.net for more info)
• Sugar Hill– Ransburg Boy Scout Camp, Bloomington, IN – August 23-25, 2024
• Pittsburgh Fall Dance Weekend – Pittsburgh – Oct. 25-27, 2024
• Winter WarmUp Dance Weekend – Columbus, OH – December 6-8, 2024
• Contra Dancers Delight (Winter) – Kingsport, TN – 2024

Traveling? This site lists pretty much all local dances and weekends in the country!

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Local Dancing that’s not Contra

There are many other forms of social dancing available in Columbus; it’s quite possible to dance every day of the week!
Please check websites to see if details have changed!

• Recreational Folk Dancers of Columbus: lists many of the groups listed below. Check out their “dance through the week” listing!
• Columbus Square Dance
  The site lists several local square dance groups. The dance at Wild Goose Creative hasn’t resumed.
• Recreational Folk Dancers of Columbus
  A group including Big Scioty and several other area folk dance groups. A Dance Calendar is available.
• English Country Dancing
  First, third and sometimes fifth Sundays 7:30-9:30 pm.
  Clinton Heights Lutheran Church, at the corner of N. High St. and Clinton Heights Avenue.
  Live Music. Third Sunday only during Summer.
• Columbus Folk Dancers – International folk dancing
  Wednesdays 7:30-10:00 pm.
  Clinton Heights Lutheran Church, 15 Clinton Heights Ave, Columbus, OH 43202
• Hillel International Folk Dancers – Israeli and International folk dancing
  Tuesdays 8-11 pm, 46 E. 16th Ave. (Sunday parking lot dances continue at Agudas Achim synagogue, E. Broad St. & Roosevelt; contact Mim (614-236-5486) or Adit)
• Whetstone International Folk Dancers
  Mondays 7:00-8:30 pm
  Whetstone Recreation Center 3923 N. High St.
• Balkan Dance
  Monthly, last Saturday 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
  (Contact Leslie Scott – ljsdancer@gmail.com – events have resumed but location changes)
• Scottish Country Dancing in Ohio
  Thursdays 7:30-9:30 PM
• Swing Columbus 
  Beginner lesson: 7:30 PM – 8:00 PM; DJ (or live band): 8:00 PM – 10:15 PM
  Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 404 South 3rd St, Columbus OH, 43215
• English Country Dancing – Wooster
  Fourth Saturdays 7-9 pm winter only
  VALLEY COLLEGE GRANGE, 2411 Shreve Road, Wooster, OH 44691 (Routes 226 & 3)

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Music and Dance Festivals

• Central Ohio Folk Festival First weekend in May