Beyond Figures (An English Country Dance Workshop) Saturday, April 18, 2026, 2:00-5:00 pm St. Mark's Episcopal Church 600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto, CA   Price at the door: $20 Download the flyer.

Bruce says, "I've discovered wonderful things since mastering the figures in English Country Dance, and I want to share them." Topics will include:

• Teamwork
• Use of space
• Use of hands
• How turns really work
• Expressing the music
• Transitions
• Ease and lightness

Attendees should be comfortable with the basic figures and their common variations -- double figure-8, heys for 3 & 4 in different configurations, triple minor formation, etc.

There will be a break with snacks.

Music for the session will be provided by Bill Jensen and Valerie Rose.

Bruce Hamilton has more than 40 years experience teaching Scottish and English Country dancing. He created what is now the BACDS Peninsula English dance series, was an early co-foreman of Berkeley Morris and started the Deer Creek Morris Men. He has become one of the country's most popular English country dance leaders with invitations to many weekends and dance camps each year. Lately, he has been focusing on nonchoreographic elements of English Country dance: how to move well, how to be musical, how to recover from slips, how to be a good partner, body mechanics, and the social and mental aspects of this social dance form.