Supported by West Lothian Council
WEST LOTHIAN INDEPENDENT DANCERS are a social dance group based in Ecclesmachan near Edinburgh in Central Scotland, where traditional Scottish Country Dancing can usually be enjoyed every night of the week - for those with enough energy! We also enjoy the folk dancing of other cultures. In 2000 we danced in Aalborg in Denmark accompanied by the band 'Scotch Snap' and a young Scottish Highland Dancer. The friendly Danish group Aalborg Folkdansere showed us some of their traditional dances which we can now display. In 2002 we danced as guests of Betaille, and demonstrated our dances in other villages in the Dordogne, France. We sampled the local food and wine with our hospitable French hosts and saw some wonderful heritage sites.
Danes on a visit to Scotland, '03
WLIDs dancing in Estoher, France, in 2004 WLIDs dancing in Aalborg, 2000
WLID's aim is to display traditional Scottish Country Dancing and music to the people of other countries and to experience their traditional dancing. We can reciprocate by inviting them to come to Scotland as our guests.

Interested?

Please email our secretary.
See our Events Diary at the bottom of the page.
Dancing in Estoher in 2004 in the French Pyrenees during the village festival and (right) dancing in Aalborg, Denmark in 2005 The Catalan Gegants at Linlithgow Palace, '08
The Catalan Gegants, from Vacarisses, near Barcelona, our guests and friends visiting Scotland in 2008
EVENTS DIARY 2009

MONDAY 13TH JULY

Dancing in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh to Bill Richardson's band

www.psgdance.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

6 SEPTEMBER 2009

New Lanark's Victorian Fair, 12-5pm

(Members of WLIDs will be dressing up as Victorians)
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