Bacds mission is to teach and promote english and american folk dance and music in the bay area. We hold public dances, workshops and dance camps with intensive instruction. We are affilidated nationally with cdss.

Arts & Culture , Arts Education , Dance

Bacds promotes and delivers a range of special events which are held to promote and preserve english and american music and dance. These include weekend and week-long intensive teaching events and formal costume balls. bacds maintains several monthly or bi-weekly dance series, averaging a total of 18 events a month. These include english country, contra and square dance traditions and all feature live music. Most are aimed at introducing the art forms to the general public, with a few geared towards more advanced dancers bacds maintains five seperate performance dance teams. These teams perform cotswold and border morris, molly dancing, and longsword dances throughout the greater bay area. The dance teams also represent the organization at regional gatherings of dance teams such as seattles northwest folklife festival and the ashland shakespeare festival.