JdeBP's Ceroc events list 2008

There are never any events or classes on this day.

Betty and Malcolm were speculating that regular classes at Ceroc Wythall could run as usual today, until Malcolm pointed out that it was a bank holiday. ☺

Regular weekly classes recommence at Ceroc Sutton Coldfield

Regular weekly classes recommence at Ceroc Wythall

A choice:

• JiveFever Coventry freestyle at the Jaguar Social Club

• Ceroc Wellingborough freestyle at the British Rail Social Club.

Ceroc Sutton Coldfield freestyle at the Jaguar Social Club

I'm going to My Mate Gyrating Jenny's birthday party, instead, though.

A choice:

• Ceroc Worcester tea dance and tapas at the Bosa Nova Wine Bar. (19:00 – 22:30)

• CDC Tea Dance at the Lickey End Working Men's Social Club

Third week of Ceroc Evesham regular classes at the Evesham Public Hall Week #3 is when new venues need our support. So come along.

A choice:

• Ceroc Nottingham "Gods of Thunder" freestyle at the Marcus Garvey Centre.

• JiveFever Coventry freestyle at the Jaguar Social Club

You could say that I'm getting bugged driving up and down the same old strip, and I have to find a new place where the girls are hip.

Ceroc Evesham Beginners' Day at the Evesham Public Hall 45-minute classes every hour, on the hour, from 11:00 to 15:45.

Ceroc Gloucester freestyle at the Walls Sports & Social Club (Doors open at 20:00. Dancing until 00:00.)

CDC Tea Dance at the Lickey End Working Men's Social Club

A choice:

• Utopia Evesham at the Evesham Public Hall

  (The Twickenham event today that you may have heard about isn't a Utopia event, as is rumoured in some quarters. It's a S'Funk event.)

• Ceroc Rugby "Focus" freestyle at the Indian Centre.

Ceroc Solihull freestyle at the LandRover Social Club

There's a rumour that there's a Ceroc Northampton freestyle at the Cripps Social Club today. But the Ceroc Central web site doesn't have any such event listed.

Oi! Nigel! You were supposed to have sent those Coventry dates to me four weeks ago. Where are they?

Ceroc Worcester Leap Year freestyle at Coppertops, from 20:00 onwards. This is a two room event, with a Utopia room downstairs. Tickets £10 on the door, £8 in advance.

It's also a friend of mine's birthday. It says 90th birthday on the invitation, for some reason. This is quite perplexing. She doesn't look that old. And her daughter is only in her teens.

I have a difficult decision to make. After all, if she really is 90, there won't be that many more birthdays.

Ceroc Worcester "Blango" American Dance specialist workshop with Lucky and Ruby at Coppertops. (Tickets £25 in advance only. Workshop from 12:00 – 16:00.)

A choice

• Ceroc Wythall freestyle at the Park Hall.

• Want2Dance Burton-on-Trent Blues/West Coast freestyle at the Belvedere Club. (Tickets £7 in advance only. Gender balanced event.)

A choice:

• Ceroc Worcester tea dance and tapas at the Bosa Nova Wine Bar. (19:00 – 22:30)

• CDC Tea Dance at the Lickey End Working Men's Social Club

Blast it! Not only do they clash with each other, but they also clash with a new class in Coventry that I'm going to try out.

Ceroc Oxford Good Friday Freestyle and Buffet at Eynsham Hall OX29 6PN (Tickets £18 for buffet and freestyle, £10 for freestyle only. Two rooms: blues and up-tempo.)

Ceroc Bedford "Sunday Session" freestyle at the Addison Centre.

It's a bank holiday, so most venues will be closed today. See Monday class list. Note that, unusually, this includes Ceroc Worcester at Bosa Nova.

A choice:

• Utopia Evesham at the Evesham Public Hall

• Ceroc Rugby "Focus" freestyle at the Indian Centre.

Ceroc Abingdon Advanced Dips & Drops Cerocshop at the Guildhall

A choice:

• Ceroc Sutton Coldfield freestyle at the Jaguar Social Club

• Want2Dance Burton-on-Trent Spring Ball at the Town Hall (Dancing 20:00–00:30. No jeans or t-shirts. Tickets £8 in advance only. Gender balanced event.)

  According to my sources, this sold out in the middle of March. There are no couples or women's tickets left.

A choice:

• Ceroc Worcester tea dance and tapas at the Bosa Nova Wine Bar. (19:00 – 22:30 Live Rock'n'Roll music from The Bravo Boys, followed by DJ Lord Selby)

• CDC Tea Dance at the Lickey End Working Men's Social Club

• West Coast Swing Central Coventry Beyond The Basics Workshop at the Colliery Club (15:00–18:00, followed by separate regular class evening from 20:00–23:00)

A small, one-off, treat for any Lindy Hoppers reading this:

Live performance by the Jive Aces at Northampton Swing Dance Society at the Cotton Working Man's Club (Fun class from 19:00. Jive Aces from 21:00–22:00. Tickets £7.)

A choice:

• Ceroc Nottingham "Gods of Thunder" freestyle at the Marcus Garvey Centre.

• Morris and Judith Charity Dance at the St Mary's Church Centre

Ceroc Northampton freestyle at the Cripps Social Club

Opening night of Ceroc Central Birmingham at The Tower Ballroom

Yes, folks. Ceroc at the Glee Club has moved to The Tower. (And yes, for those who missed the news: The Tower is open again!) It's £5 on the door (which is a special offer for the opening month). Beginner's class is at 19:45. Intermediate class is at 20:50. Freestyle from 21:30–23:00.

A choice:

• Ceroc Royal Leamington Spa freestyle at the Pump Rooms

  This is the first freestyle at the Pump Rooms since this one in 2004.

• Ceroc Wellingborough freestyle at the British Rail Social Club.

• Utopia Derby freestyle at the Rolls Royce Pavilion. (Dancing from 20:00–00:00. Tickets £9 in advance only. Gender balanced event.)

Much as I like Blues, it's going to take a lot of persuasion and Feminine Wiles to get me to drive for a hour to Derby instead of for 5 minutes down the road to the first local freestyle since 2004.

It turns out that I should have held out for more Feminine Wiles.

A choice:

• Ceroc Wythall freestyle at the Park Hall.

• Ceroc Daventry freestyle at the Leisure Centre

CDC Tea Dance at the Lickey End Working Men's Social Club

A choice:

• Utopia Evesham at the Evesham Public Hall

• Ceroc Rugby "Focus" freestyle at the Indian Centre.

• Want2Dance Alcester freestyle at the Grieg Hall

A choice:

• Ceroc Solihull freestyle at the LandRover Social Club

• Ceroc Burton-on-Trent Masquerade Ball and Buffet at the Town Hall

A lot of venues are closed today, because they are used as polling stations in the local elections. These include, amongst others:

• JiveFever Coventry
• Ceroc Rugby

Check with your venue to see whether it is open today. See the Thursday class list for some alternatives.

A choice:

• Ceroc Coventry freestyle at the Colliery Club.

  This is the first Ceroc freestyle at the Colliery Club.

• West Coast Swing Central Wellingborough freestyle at The Embankment Club

• Morris and Judith Charity Dance at the St Mary's Church Centre

On the gripping hand, I might be doing the taxi driver thing and taking Someone to rehearsals in Halesowen, instead.

A choice:

• Ceroc Worcester tea dance and pizza at the Bosa Nova Wine Bar Coppertops. (19:00 – 22:30)

  It's the first night of Amir's Official Birthday, today. He has requested that there be no puddings this year. He's on a diet, apparently. So everyone please bring him some Ryvita, rice cakes, and Kellogg's Special K.

  Yes, this was a last minute venue change.

• CDC Tea Dance at the Lickey End Working Men's Social Club

It's a bank holiday, so most venues will be closed today. See Monday class list.

Want2Dance Redditch is holding a bank holiday freestyle at the Arrow Valley social club.

Most of the venues that are regularly open on bank holiday Mondays do something different for the bank holiday, such as a "fun" class instead of the standard classes, or simply, as with Want2Dance Redditch, making the evening into a freestyle evening.

Although Ceroc Wolverhampton at the Goodyear Pavilion is, unusually, also open this Monday, the format is exactly that of a standard Thursday evening regular weekly class. Mike Allsop made a point of saying that it's not a freestyle, a Cinderella evening, or a non-standard-classes day.

Graham The D.J. says that Ceroc Central Birmingham at The Tower Ballroom is open today. But its own web site says, in capital letters, that it is rescheduled to the following Wednesday on bank holiday Mondays. There's a mix-up somewhere. Check, if you intend to try going.

Now that Steve is back from holiday, regular CDC Wednesday evenings resume at the Northfield British Legion Club today.

Also, because Monday was a bank holiday, Ceroc Central Birmingham at The Tower Ballroom has its regular weekday class today.

A choice:

• Ceroc Nottingham "Gods of Thunder" freestyle at the Marcus Garvey Centre.

• Ceroc Rugby "Focus" freestyle at the Indian Centre.

A choice:

• JiveFever Coventry freestyle at the Jaguar Social Club

• Ceroc Wellingborough freestyle at the British Rail Social Club.

CDC freestyle at the Northfield British Legion Club

A choice:

• Want2Dance Burton-on-Trent Smooth Blues/Hot Latin freestyle at the Belvedere Club. (Tickets £7 in advance only. Gender balanced event.)

• Ceroc Solihull freestyle at the LandRover Social Club

It's a bank holiday, so most venues will be closed today. See Monday class list.

As with the preceding bank holiday Monday, Ceroc Wolverhampton at the Goodyear Pavilion is open today, but with the standard Thursday evening regular class format.

A choice:

• Utopia Evesham at the Evesham Public Hall

  This was on Debbie Two's original list of Utopia dates at the start of the year. It appears to have been rescheduled, though.

• JiveFever Coventry freestyle at the Jaguar Social Club

A choice:

• Ceroc Worcester tea dance and tapas at the Bosa Nova Wine Bar. (19:00 – 22:30)

• CDC Tea Dance at the Lickey End Working Men's Social Club

Ceroc Oxford opening night at The Regal

A choice:

• Morris and Judith Charity Dance at the St Mary's Church Centre

• Ceroc Oxford Ivory Ball at Eynsham Hall OX29 6PN

Ceroc Midlands weekender at Hafany Mor, near Pwllheli. (Gender balanced weekender. Dancing from 10:00 until 04:00 every night.)

A choice:

• Ceroc Royal Leamington Spa freestyle at the Pump Rooms

• Utopia Evesham at the Evesham Public Hall

Blast it! I am forced to choose between Blues and Leamington again!

Ceroc Halesowen closed this week. See alternative venues for Friday.

There will, according to Amir, be a make-up two-room freestyle later in the month to compensate.

Ceroc Worcester Busk at the Bosa Nova Wine Bar from 11:00 onwards, until we run out of people, sunlight, or blood sugar.

A choice:

• Ceroc Worcester weekender, with daytime workshops and a three room freestyle and barbeque at Coppertops

  This has been rescheduled to August because Ceroc Daventry decided that it was, after all, going to hold a big freestyle this weekend. Debbie Two only found out by reading the flyers at the last Daventry freestyle, I gather. Welcome to my world, Debbie! ☺

• Ceroc Daventry Stars and Stripes freestyle at the Leisure Centre

  The theme is U.S. Independence Day. Someone should have told them the correct day of the year for that.

  Doors open at 20:00, but there'll probably be classes, competitions, cabarets, and whatnot, as usual, for the first hour and a bit. The main room shuts at 00:00 as usual. The Blues room goes on until 03:00. Tickets are once again £15 on the door, or £12.50 in advance. (The usual Ceroc Central price for two-room events is £10.)

• Ceroc Wythall freestyle at the Park Hall.

  This isn't a last-minute surprise sprung on other venues. Ceroc South Birmingham announces its dates up to a year in advance. This one has been listed here since 2007.

  The normal freestyle price of £8 on the door applies. Standard format: One fun lesson, dancing before and after. You know the drill.

A choice:

• Ceroc Worcester weekender, with daytime workshops and a tea dance and tapas at the Bosa Nova Wine Bar.

  Yes, the tea dance itself is still definitely on. I confirmed with Debbie Two three days beforehand.

• CDC Tea Dance at the Lickey End Working Men's Social Club

A choice:

• Ceroc Solihull freestyle at the LandRover Social Club

• Ceroc Kidderminster freestyle at the town hall (Two room event)

Ceroc Worcester weekender, with daytime workshops (Blues and West Coast Swing) and a three room freestyle and barbeque at Coppertops

A choice:

• Ceroc Worcester weekender, with daytime workshops (Blues) and a three room freestyle at Coppertops

• CDC Tea Dance at the Lickey End Working Men's Social Club

A choice:

• Ceroc Sutton Coldfield freestyle at the Jaguar Social Club

• Morris and Judith Charity Dance at the St Mary's Church Centre

CDC Tea Dance at the Lickey End Working Men's Social Club

It's a bank holiday, so most venues will be closed today. See Monday class list.

John tells me that, once again, Want2Dance Redditch is holding a bank holiday freestyle at the Arrow Valley social club from 20:00–23:00.

Because Monday was a bank holiday, Ceroc Central Birmingham at The Tower Ballroom has its regular weekday class today.

A choice:

• Ceroc Coventry freestyle at the Colliery Club.

• Ceroc Halesowen Latin and Blues Cinderella night

Ceroc Rugby "Focus" freestyle at the Indian Centre.

Jive+ Oxford freestyle at the Rover Sports and Social Club (Dancing from 19:30–23:00 £8 on the door)

A choice:

• Ceroc Worcester tea dance and tapas at the Bosa Nova Wine Bar. (19:00 – 22:30)

• CDC Tea Dance at the Lickey End Working Men's Social Club

A choice:

• Want2Dance Burton-on-Trent Smooth Blues/Hot Latin freestyle at the Belvedere Club. (Tickets £7 in advance only. Gender balanced event.)

• Ceroc Solihull freestyle at the LandRover Social Club

But I'm going to John's birthday party, instead. ☺