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

Nearby Contra Dance Weekends

• Contra Swing Shift – Lexington/Berea – January
• Pigtown Fling – Cincinnati – March (cancelled for 2023)
• Whitewater Whirl – Fayetteville WV – May
• Contra Dancers Delight (Summer) – Northeast TN – July 28-Aug 4
• Buffalo Gap Retreat – Buffalo Gap, WV June 23-25
• Dance Trance – Lexington, KY – June (cancelled for 2023)
• River Rendezvous – Coshocton Lake Park, Coshocton, OH – July 14-16, 2023 (contact jimsedivy@prodigy.net for more info)
• Sugar Hill– Ransburg Boy Scout Camp, Bloomington, IN – August 25-27, 2023
• Foot Fall Dance Weekend – Labor Day weekend (cancelled for 2022, no word yet on 2023)
• Columbus Country Dance Weekend – October (no word on 2023)
• Pittsburgh Fall Dance Weekend – Pittsburgh – Oct. 27-29, 2023
• Winter WarmUp Dance Weekend – Columbus, OH – December 1-3, 2023
• Contra Dancers Delight (Winter) – Kingsport, TN – December 26, 2023 – Jan 1, 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!

• Square Dance Columbus
  First Friday each month, 7:00 – 8:00 potluck, dancing 8:00 – 11:00 PM. Wild Goose Creative, 2491 Summit St., Columbus, OH 43202
  (Contact them to see if events have 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 fifth Sundays at 7:30 pm.
  Clinton Heights Lutheran Church, at the corner of N. High St. and Clinton Heights Avenue.
  Live Music. Third Sunday only during Summer. Country Dance Weekend in October during even years.
  (Contact them to see if events have resumed)
• Columbus Folk Dancers – International folk dancing
  Wednesdays 7:30-10:00 pm.
  Summit on 16th United Methodist Church, 82 East 16th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201-1617
• 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
  Thursdays 7:30-10 pm
  Whetstone Recreation Center 3923 N. High St.
• Irish Set Dancing
  Various Sundays, 4-6 pm, live music.
  Riverside United Methodist Church, 2701 Zollinger Rd., Upper Arlington OH
  (Contact them to see if events have resumed)
• Balkan Dance
  Monthly, last Saturday 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
  (Contact Leslie Scott – ljsdancer@gmail.com – events have resumed but location changes)
• 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)
  Wooster Third Annual Jane Austen Ball
  Saturday, March 25, 2023, 7-10 pm

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Music and Dance Festivals

• Central Ohio Folk Festival May