In these web pages I have links to videos illustrating different kinds of dance I've been involved with, and some of my other thoughts on them.
These days, the kind of dance I do the most is English Country Dance. Both dancing and "calling" (teaching).
My start was in Scottish Country Dance, and I still do a lot of that too.
I also do a lot of Modern Square Dance. Also Old-Time Square Dance, which is related but has significant differences.
Now that I'm retired, I've added Line Dance, which I think I've now achieved basic competence in.
And I've also always done Contra dance.
I also do and teach various "social dances", also known as barn dances, also known as Ceilidh dances. You can hire me to teach some casual dances at your event. I go to a regular old-time social dance on Sundays.
Other things I've tried include Irish Set Dance, swing dance / jive, and what they call "international folk dance" (which is basically eastern European and Israeli folk dance).
Please let me know if you want some pointers about getting into these scenes or where you could start to try them out a bit, or just see them once, etc. Everyone wants you to join in and dance and have fun.
I'd like to learn some Round Dance some time, and I feel that I have a serious gap in my dance education by not having learned anything about Ballroom Dance (which I hope some day to remedy).
I run an English Country Dance group in York Region (Ontario, Canada).
Contrary to popular belief, it is NOT traditional in partner dances for one partner necessarily to be a woman and the other to be a man. It is traditional in partner dances for one person to SAY that they are dancing as a woman and the other to SAY that they are dancing as a man, but it has NEVER been the case that partnered dance has invariably involved one man and one woman. I have quite a lot to say about gender-neutral role names for dance, and I've said some of it in this article about gender-neutral partner dance.