Scandinavian Dance Classes Information on classes, dances, and camps Beginning and Advanced Scandinavian Dance Classes Beginning Scandinavian Dance Class Some Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:30 - 9:30 pm --April 8 (Tuesday) and 24 (Thursday) --May 20 (Tuesday) and 29 (Thursday) --The future schedule will be updated. Learn Hambo, Schottish, Waltz, Polka, Snoa, and other couple turning dances. Some Hambo is done every time. Singles, couples, beginners, and advanced dancers welcome. Come when you can; classes are all year. Sometimes with live Swedish fiddle music. Wear smooth soles for turning, not running shoes. $5. Advanced Scandinavian Dance Class Some Tuesdays 7:30 - 9:30 pm --April 1, 15, and 29 --May 13 and 27 --The future schedule will be updated. Learn dances from Boda, Orsa, Rättvick, Ragunda, Follinge, Viksta, Varnas, Telemark, and Valdres, as well as others, including Finnskogspols, Nigpolska, Gammalvänster, and your requests (mostly Swedish dances and some Norwegian dances). Singles, couples, and intermediate and advanced dancers welcome. Come when you can; classes are all year. Sometimes with live Swedish fiddle music. $5. Raised wooden dance floor and air-conditioning. Contact Lisa Brooks at lisa@HamboDC.org, 301-654-7667 or 240-731-1935. (No dancing if code orange.) Site updated 4/14/08. Scandia DC dances: usually on the third Saturday of non-summer months in Greenbelt, MD. Next on April 19 and May 17. Info on Scandinavian dancing in this area. Norwegian dancing: on occasional Saturdays or Sundays. Next on Saturday, April 12, at Sonia's place in Bethesda. Potluck at 6:30 and dancing at 8. Info: pi@xecu.net, 301-371-4312. Sunday afternoons at the Glen Echo Spanish Ballroom: waltzes generally on the first and third Sundays of each month (April 6, 20, Sat April 26 Strauss Ball, May 4, 18, June 15, 29, July 20). Waltz information. Activities in Glen Echo Park. Wonderful Scandinavian dance camps: Scandia Camp Mendocino (register now!) --Mendocino, CA June 14-21, 2008 Nordic Fiddles and Feet (register now!) --Buffalo Gap, WV, June 28 - July 5, 2008   (option June 28 - July 1) Buffalo on the Danube (International with Scandi) --Timber Ridge Camp (near the old Buffalo Gap Camp in WV), Aug 29 - Sept 1, 2008 Directions NIH Fitness and Dance Center, Building T-39, Bethesda, MD, at the south-central part of the NIH campus. See a map of NIH with T39 not markeded at the center bottom, the small blue horizontal rectangle just below building 28 and northwest of building 41. The class is in the front or back room (go straight through the entrance door, past the dance floor on your left, to a closed door, and walk in). Bring picture ID if you drive or walk onto NIH. From north of NIH: from the I-495 beltway, take the exit in Bethesda to south 355 / Rockville Pike / Wisconsin Av. At South Dr., turn right into NIH. Cars will be inspected. From DC and other points south of NIH: take Wisconsin Av. north. At South Dr., turn left into NIH. Cars will be inspected. From South Dr.:  Go straight through security and the rest of the block on South Drive; do not take the right fork onto Center Drive. Cross Center Drive and go straight on South Drive two blocks, until the road turns left. Make this left turn and go straight about three blocks, until the road ends in a T and you have to turn. Turn left, then turn into the parking lot on the right. The NIH Fitness and Dance Center, Building T-39, is just on the other side of this parking lot. Park in NIH employee permit parking (no permits needed after 7 pm, on weekends, or on holidays). The door is up the stairs on the other side of the building, not up the stairs by the parking lot. From the Medical Center Metro stop, 12 minute walk: after you exit the station, walk straight forward, to the right of the construction fence, and go through the visitor inspection. Go up the path on the side of the inspection building, and go to the right of the building it leads you to, down past the loading area. Cross the street (Center Drive) and turn left onto it. Walk past a small parking lot on the right. Turn rightish on the concrete sidewalk (just before you go uphill), just to the left of a one-story brick building. Walk along the building until you come to an opening to the right between that building and the next one. Go into that opening, walk straight through, and turn left in the driveway entrance to those buildings. Just across the street on your right is the NIH Fitness and Dance Center, Building T-39.