VDCTA

The aims and purposes of the Victoria & District Caller Teachers Association (VDCTA) are to encourage, foster, and promote square and round dancing; to work in harmony with CALLERLAB and ROUNDALAB toward the full and proper use of standard terminology and definitions of calls or cues; to provide for the free exchange of dance material and other useful and helpful information and ideas; to offer training, advice, and encouragement to members; and to encourage participation in round dancing by teaching the rounds recommended by the Round Dance Committee and, at the discretion of the caller/cuer, any round that he/she may wish to use.

The VDCTA sponsors four free workshops each dance season from 1:30 to 2:45 PM usually on the fourth Sundays of September, November, January, and March, and a free Mainstream dance on the fourth Sunday in April, all at the Colwood Community Hall. All graduate square dancers and round dancers are welcome to attend. Workshop programs – which include square dancing and/or round dancing – vary from session to session. These workshops allow callers to experiment with square dance calls and for cuers to teach new Rounds of the Month. See the poster on the DANCES page and check the CALENDAR page to confirm the dates for these workshops and dance.

The VDCTA hosts a New Dancer Hoedown in late winter for new dancers half way through their lessons and in the spring a Round Dance Party offering rounds at both square dance and higher levels.

Each dance season the VDCTA and the LVIWSRDA jointly sponsor the Spring Round-Up, usually on the first Sunday in May, to welcome newly-graduated dancers, draw for the Dancers of the Year, and wind-up the dance season.  The two Associations also jointly sponsor a series of summer Mainstream dances on Wednesday evenings during June, July, and August. Half of these dances are held at each of the Colwood Community Hall and the Royal Oak Women’s Institute Hall. 

The VDCTA sponsors Hall Benefit Dances on the first Wednesday in June and the last Wednesday in August – one at each hall – with all proceeds going to improvements at the two buildings.

Watch the DANCES page for the posters advertising these dancing events. The dates will also appear on the CALENDAR page.