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Trip to Totality

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Celebrate the 2024 Solar Eclipse by dancing away the bad karma! David Smukler will call appropriate dances for the disappearance of the sun.  Sister Haggis is teaming up with Catherine Sloboda to form the new band Bellamira.

The next Jane Austen Ball is 2025

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We’re taking a break this year to plan an extra-special Jane Austen Ball for her 250th Birthday next year. Syracuse Country Dancers are holding a Sun Assembly with Dan Blim calling, and music by Bellamira [Jane Knoeck (piano), Eileen Kalfass (violin) and Catherine Sloboda (violin/viola)] on May 17-18.  Registration will open on the Ides of… Read more »

Scholarship applications due Feb. 12

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Country Dancers of Rochester offers $500 of financial assistance (either to one person or divided among multiple applicants) to help with the expense of summer dance camps.  You can get an application here.   The due date is Feb. 12, 2024.  You can reach the scholarship committee by email at if you have questions.