Instructors

Fiona Grant
Fiona likes to dance, especially to Scottish music. Many years ago while a student she joined Edinburgh University New Scotland Country Dance Society and got so hooked on Scottish Country Dancing that she danced her way to the University Award in Physical Education; and then took the RSCDS certificates while a trainee teacher at Moray House as a way to escape shivering on the sports field on winter Wednesday afternoons. Since moving to Bristol, she has dipped her toes into Scottish step dance, Salsa, Flamenco, Arabic, Ballroom, Le-roc, Tango Argentino and Irish sets, but has never escaped from the lure of Scottish Country Dance. As a member of the RSCDS in Bristol she has been treasurer and edited the branch newsletter, and now teaches the branch technique class as well as a beginners class for Westbury Scottish Club, a local affiliated group. Every few months she travels up to Edinburgh to attend meetings of the RSCDS Finance and General Purposes Committee, and to dance there too of course. She is an enthusiastic itinerant dancer and publicist for the RSCDS, and is happy to travel miles to hear a fine band play and join in the dance. Now that her children have ventured off on their own, she has taken to dancing in foreign places and met dancing partners in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Brittany, Jersey, Guernsey and Nova Scotia. She likes to encourage others to dance, and organised 50 dancers and a band to travel to Krasnodar in southern Russia to visit the young student group there. She taught at the RSCDS summer school in St Andrews for the first time last year.

Annette Davies

Annette Davies, from Aberystwyth, is an experienced dancer of a variety of
social traditional dance and is a regular teacher of Breton and French
dance. Her Breton workshop will be suitable for dancers of all levels.
Local talented musicians Boz Boswell and Pete Damsell will be providing
live music for this workshop. Annette, Boz and Pete regularly play and
teach at Breton dance evenings in West Wales.

Lyn Wilson

I started SCD when we moved to South Wales in 1975.  I completed my teacher's course in 1990 and have been running a weekly class in the Vale of Glamorgan since then.  I also ran a children's class for  four years.  I was on the committee of the RSCDS South Wales Branch from 1997-2004, acting as secretary for 7 years and chairman for 10.  I also acted as second representative for the Branch at the AGM in Scotland from 1994-2001.