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A BIT ABOUT US

The Club was founded in 1980 when some keen dancers got together to form a group to hold dances and lessons in sequence partner dancing.  The club is still going strong with enthusiastic volunteers ensuring the teaching & dancing opportunities continue for all Canberrans & for visiting dancers too.

With weekly club nights every Thursday providing lessons & dancing till 10pm, monthly Saturday Social evenings & monthly Sunday afternoon Tea Dances.  There's plenty of dancing. The Club also holds their annual Ball weekend in June. 

So don't delay come along & get all the health & well being benefits that dancing brings.  You will establish life long friendships through dance and have lots of fun.

Each Thursday you can learn new dances or revise ones you already know. Check out our Classes page for more information

MEMBERSHIP as at 2/02/2023 is $10

Entry to our Club nights, including a lesson is:

$10 for Members

$15 for Non-Members 

Social Saturdays & Tea Dances are $10 Members $15 Non Members

Please come along to try out our Thursdays & you can join then if you want to.  Just ask at the front desk.  Or send us an email on our Contact Page for more information.

HISTORY

Here is a little history of the club with thanks to Eugen Braun who has maintained a Website for the COTDC for around 20 years.

COTDC has been going strong since 1980. In fact the 10th Anniversay Ball in 1990 was the first dance ever to be allowed in the Great Hall of New Parliament House. 360 dancers from around Australia attended.  Our 20th Anniversary Ball was also held there and 440 dancers attended and again Silver Anniversary Ball in 2005.
Membership of 65-70 has been maintained. Live music by various artists & old time dance bands added much magic to our great events.s  ie Delaineys re-named to Rose City from Wangaratta,
Vintage Brass from Forbes, Ron's Rhythm Rascals from South Coast, Ed Kilo's, Sweet Sherry Stompers and Ian Stewart.  Locals Lindsey Marks, Arthur George and Darrel Gaukroger also played regularly. The club has an enviable record of kind volunteers in management roles, setting up & pulling down equipment, decorating, teaching, organising special events.  Our members have even invented new dances. Harmonie Waltz by Ron Prescott, St Eddies Blues by our

very own Dance Master Brian Venables.
Much outstanding and sustained effort by early members is 
fondly remembered especially Jean & Arthur George,
Brian & Joy Venables, Brian Banfield, Duncan & Gwen Souter,
Bruce & Viv Radcliffe … all life members.
No wonder one continuously feels a warmth of companionship on 
all Club occasions. 
We are lucky to be a very friendly Club.

LIFE, FOUNDATION & EARLY MEMBERS

  • Joy and Brian Venables

  • Arthur George

  • Gwen and Duncan Souter

  • Vivienne and Bruce Radcliffe

  • Thelma and Sonny Maurice

  • Pat and Howard Doust

  • Beth and Charles Collins

  • Bernie Hodgson

  • June Nicholls

  • Michael Walsh

  • Pam Banfield

  • Hazel Bancroft

  • Ron Prescott

  • Louise Crosby

  • Mandy Philipse (Souter)

  • Adrian Dennison

  • Peter Manning

  • Gary Hekelaar

  • Dennis and Iris Blewett

  • Beth Miller


Note that lists are not sorted in any particular order and sadly some
early members have passed away but will always be remembered.

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