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.
WLIDs dancing in Estoher, France, in 2004
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.
Dancing in Estoher in 2004 in the French Pyrenees during the village festival and (right) dancing in Aalborg, Denmark in 2005
Danes on a visit to Scotland in 2003
Events Diary 2008

JUNE

A team of West Lothian Independent Dancers will demonstrate in Princes Street Gardens on Monday 30 June, 7.30 - 9.30.


THE GEANTS VISIT IN AUGUST

Hosting the Visit of the ‘Colla Gegantera de Vacarisses’ of Catalunya
10th-17th August 2008
Performing dances of Giant figures and traditional music by their graller players, in and around West Lothian, based in Linlithgow

Aileen L Friis Jorgensen
Phone: 01506 891224

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