Saltaire Circle Dance Group 

Start date: 9 April, 2025
End date: 25 June, 2025
Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Saltaire Methodist Church Hall, Saltaire Rd, Saltaire, Shipley BD18 3HJ

WEEKLY EVENT

🌿 Circle Dance at Saltaire Methodist Church Hall

Location: Saltaire Methodist Church Hall, Saltaire Rd, Saltaire, Shipley BD18 3HJ
When: Wednesdays, 10:30am – 12:30pm (with a tea break)
Led by: Sophia Hatch

Join our friendly and welcoming circle dance group! We’ve been dancing together for decades, but newcomers are always warmly welcomed.


🐣 Easter Dates:

  • Last session before Easter: Wednesday 9th April
    We’ll celebrate with a “bring and share” vegetarian lunch after dancing – stay and enjoy if you can!
  • No sessions: 16th & 23rd April (Easter break)

🌼 Spring Restart – Block 1:

  • Dates: 30th April, 7th May, 14th May, 21st May (no session on 28th May)
  • Cost:
    • Block booking (4 weeks): £28
    • Pay on the door: £9 / £10

🌞 Summer Sessions – Block 2:

  • Dates: 4th June, 11th June, 18th June, 25th June
  • Note: Due to main road closures until October, travel times are longer and more difficult. To help cover the extra costs, prices will be temporarily increased by £1 per session.
  • Cost:
    • Block booking (4 weeks): £32
    • Pay on the door: £10 / £11

After this block, we’ll take a summer break until September. Looking forward to dancing with you!

Beltane Circle Dance celebration ! Fire and Earth unite !

Date: 3 May, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 4:30 pm
Location: At Cragg Vale Church, Mytholmroyd

Beltane Circle Dance celebration ! Fire and Earth unite !

Beltane Circle Dance celebration ! Fire and Earth unite !

Saturday May 3rd 2025 11am-4.30pm

At Cragg Vale Church, Mytholmroyd Nr Hebden Bridge HX7 5TF

Open to men + women

Bring veggie food to share for lunch.

BOOKINGS / ENQUIRIES to S Hatch, 3 Boston Hill Hebden Bridge HX7 8SS

sophiafreedancer@talktalk.net

07761213280

! LIFTS can be given from Mytholmroyd station.

April 3rd

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Using Circle dances that invite the connection to the earth as well as our fire within, dances of flowering

Both lively & others gentle and slow , including Gipsy ( Rom ) dances from E Europe , offering tenderness to the greening earth.

Both traditional + recent dances from a wide source from Balkan to Celtic!

We may have a small fire outside weather willing …and do one simple dance outside … in this stunning setting..

BOOK TODAY: sophiafreedancer@talktalk.net

07761213280

Monthly Balkan / Greek Saturday Afternoons

Date: 17 May, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:15 pm

Monthly Balkan / Greek Saturday Afternoons

Running from September to May.

Next and last one of the season May 17th 2.00 – 4.15pm

Includes a tea break with snacks & hot drinks.

I have been leading this monthly group for a couple of years having taught a regular evening class in Hebden Bridge for decades .

Greek Dance Day OPA

Date: 21 June, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 4:30 pm