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Bloorlea
Invitation: For all levels of dancers. Cost: $5 per class.
Time: 10:00am – noon
Season 2025/26: September 9 to December 9 and January 6 to May 12
Location: Alderwood Centre, 2 Orianna Drive, Etobicoke, ON M8W 4Y1 (west of Brown’s Line and Horner Ave)
Teacher & Contact: Arlene Koteff 416.272-7217
About the group: Join us as we dance in the bright and spacious Meeting Room at the Alderwood Centre. Masks are optional. Hand sanitizer will be provided for use between dances. Please bring your own water.
How to get there: Just west of Brown’s Line off Horner Avenue. Plenty of free parking in the lot in front of the main doors. -
Clairside (the group formerly known as Tayside Morning)
Invitation: We invite any interested dancers (beginners welcome) to join us on Tuesday mornings
Time: 10:30am – noon
Season 2025/26: September 9 – December 9, 2025; January 6 – May 12, 2026
Location: Clairlea Park Presbyterian Church, 3236 St. Clair Avenue East, Toronto, ON M1L 1V
Teacher: Blair Gerrie 416.651-8933
Contact: Sandra Charlesworth 416.901-7723
About the group: The Tayside Morning Group has been welcomed to a different church in the same neighbourhood, and we changed our name to avoid confusion with Tayside Evening Group, which also has a new location (see below). Clairside is branding itself as a low impact class. If the spring has sprung from your steps, and you don’t like driving at night (especially in the winter), then perhaps Clairside is the class for you!
How to get there: if you are driving – just east of Pharmacy Ave., lots of free parking behind the church, off Eastdale Crescent. If you take TTC, Clairlea Park Church is on a bus route, and two blocks from Warden Subway. -
Wasaga Beach (non affiliated with RSCDS Toronto)
Invitation: All are welcome!
Time: 10:00am – noon
Season 2025: almost all year round
Location: Prime Time Club, 1724 Mosley Street, Wasaga Beach (same complex as the YMCA and Recplex)
Contact: Sharon Wood 705.429-4691 (woodrs79@rogers.com)
About: Bring your lunch and join us after class. Coffee and tea are provided.
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Aurora
Invitation: Please bring your own water, snacks and sanitizer. Masks are optional.
Time: 10:30am – 12:15pm
Fall 2025: September 12 to December 12
Location: St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Hall, 32 Mosley Street, Aurora
Teacher: Halyna Sydorenko
Contact: Stella & Andrew Henderson
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Rosedale Youth
Invitation: New students, boys or girls, are always welcome. Come and enjoy social dancing, festivals, parties, special events and gala days!
Time: classes for different ages and levels 9:30 – 11:45 am
Season 2025/2026: Classes have started on September 13
Location: Rosedale Presbyterian Church, 129 Mount Pleasant Rd at South Drive
Teacher/Contact: Moira Korus 647.378-5753
Family Class (9:30 – 10:05 am)
Rosedale’s family dance class is suitable for children of all ages (starting at 3-1/2 yrs) with their parents, grandparents, siblings.Young Improvers and Intermediates Class (10:15am – 11:15)
Young improvers are older children in the Family Class who are beginning to learn steps and formations. They are joined by volunteer tweens & teens.
Senior Class (10:15 – 11:45 am)
Teens join the Intermediate Class and learn to dance with confidence and poise. Strong friendships are formed and leadership skills develop. Importantly, self-confidence flourishes. Teens are quick to pick up dances and thrive on challenge. That’s what they get in the last part of the class They learn just-for-fun dances, and they also concentrate on intricate, elaborate dances.
Dancers at Rosedale all become members of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (at no extra charge). Accomplished dancers can attend formal events such as the West Toronto Ball, Christmas Dance, and Youth Dance. Scholarships are available for older teens to travel to Scotland to attend Summer School in St Andrews.
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