Sam and Rachelle have, once again, invited WCS Calgary to host another outdoor “Socially Distanced WCS Partner Dance”, as their guests, at their private gated Community Park!

This time WCS Calgary is asking for donations of $5/person (or more if you’d like) to cover costs. Any extra will go to the Park, on Sam and Rachelle’s behalf, at the end of the outdoor dance season. There will be a box to drop it in on the stage steps. Your generosity is appreciated!

For this venue, we can STILL only have 40 people and, like last time, we’ll STILL have to strictly follow all the venue and event rules, such as keeping 2m social distance between all partnerships at all times… but, hey, it was fun last time, and everyone followed the ‘rules’ perfectly, so let’s keep it going!

If you were there last time and want to come out again in the same partnership, please email Dave “We’re in!” ASAP to the same email as last time and he’ll get you registered.

If you missed last time and have a close contact to dance exclusively with in a WCS lead/follow partnership, or someone who’s mutually willing to do so for this event, and want to join us this Friday… please MESSAGE (or text) your EMAIL ADDRESS to Dave Lawson ASAP. He’ll send you the details on how it works and how to reserve your partner slot for this event.

Unfortunately, this is an adult partner dance event only and limited to 40 guests, 20 partnerships, so we won’t be able to accommodate drop-ins, solos etc. We’re still working towards including a larger group, possibly sometime in August, so please stay tuned!

WCS Calgary has decided to cancel our Friday dance this week and suspend future Friday dances until further notice. Please stay tuned…

Bring your friends out for the PARTY this Friday! We’re “getting green” for our annual St Patrick’s Day celebration! What’s up with GREEN? Green is a color in Ireland’s flag and has been used in the flags of several Irish revolutionary groups throughout history. Ireland is the “Emerald Isle,” so named for its lush green landscape. Green is also the color of spring, the shamrock, and the Chicago River, that has been dyed green on St Patrick’s Day for the past 40-odd years! Come on out! Wear green if you like! There may even be green Jell-O shots involved!

Although it is impossible to guarantee a virus-free environment, WCS Calgary has decided to continue the Friday dances for the time being. We will continue monitoring the developments here in Alberta and will follow all precautions and directives from the Health authorities, as well as general common sense, in deciding about each week’s dance.

We believe that your decision whether or not to suspend your social dancing is a personal choice and fully understand if anyone decides not to come out. No explanations, regrets or apologies are necessary.

We ask anyone who has any signs of cold or flu, even minor ones, to please stay home and take care of yourself. If you or any close contact of yours has been travelling in the last couple of weeks, especially to any place with a significant presence of the virus or close contact with a lot of other people, such as airports, large dance events, cruises or conventions, please carefully consider whether or not it’s safer for all of us for you to take a couple of weeks off from our parties.

If you are coming out, please understand that none of us wants to get sick and we would like to ask that you help us keep each other healthy by taking a few precautions:

1. Avoid handshakes/hugs when greeting each other. Fist or elbow bumps or waves are the currently recommended substitutes.

2. Wash your hands (30 seconds) or use hand sanitizer often, after every few dances and any time you use the washroom, throughout the evening.

3. Avoid touching your face, mouth or nose and if you notice yourself doing it, use sanitizer right away and try again.

4. Cough or sneeze into a tissue and dispose of it immediately and then wash your hands or use sanitizer.

5. If you’re coughing or sneezing frequently during the evening, for all of our sakes, please consider leaving the dance. We’ll look forward to seeing you next time!

6. Bring your own water bottle/travel mug for water or other beverages. Avoid handling other people’s containers.

7. If you use any plates/cups/napkins/plastic cutlery, etc please dispose of them yourself when you’re done with them.

8. Avoid close face to face proximity when talking to each other.

9. Smile, dance and most of all have fun!

We are blessed to have such a wonderful, inclusive and thoughtful dance family and look forward to continuing with Friday dances as long as it seems reasonably safe to do so. See you on the dance floor!!

Join us this Friday when our DJ will play YOUR requested songs! What’s THE song that makes you want to JUMP up and dance WCS? Bring the title, write it down and throw it in the hat. For one hour, starting at 9, we’re dancing to YOUR songs! Come join the FUN!