Ballroom & Latin dance venues
within The South West of England

Practice sessions tend to have modern & latin intermingled. Dress is more casual and everyone stops for tea (or coffee!). Plenty of parking for your tractors.

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Patchway Community Hall

No address stated

• Times and dates: Tues 8.30 to 10.30
• Price: Similar to other local practices
• Format: 2 modern, 2 latin
• Who goes: Mostly couples of retirement age who are ex competitiors and social dancers
• Travel & parking: Near Cribbs Causeway (and where the Wales and West Tournament is held) and less than 5 mins from the motorway

Patchway High School

Patchway High School

• Times and dates: Monday 8.30 - 10.30pm (not August)
• Price: £5 per couple
• Format: 2 modern, 2 latin including VW x2 once and PD x 2 once -- everything else comes around about twice. There's a break for a short while in the middle: take your own refreshments Plenty of room to practice steps whilst the other discipline is playing, no mir
• Who goes: Some ex-students but mostly senior
• Travel & parking: Off the A38 northbound just before the Aztec West roundabout -- 5 mins from the M4
• Other Info: Large floor, erratic surface, no mirrors. Pub afterwards!

Bristol

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Dance Centre

Hotwells Road, Bristol

• Times and dates: Approximately every two weeks on a Saturday night
• Price: £4.50 per person
• Format: No PD, only 2 VW. 2-3 of each dance in a row
• Who goes: Mostly social dancers
• Other Info: Eric & Helia: Floor is sprung & big but with stationary objects in corners to practise floorcraft

Elm Park

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Filton Community Centre

Elm Park

• Times and dates: Wednesday, 8 to 10pm
• Price: Annual fee £2 each and then each practice is £4 per couple
• Format: 2 modern, 2 latin
• Who goes: Some Ex-students, mostly senior. Friendly atmosphere, can get busy sometiems
• Travel & parking: Just off the A38, near Abbey Wood, junction 1 of M32
• Other Info: Floor a bit small. PS we've been known to drink (and even eat) after this practice

Portishead

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Avon Amateurs

Somerset Hall, Portishead

• Times and dates: Tuesday 7:30-10:30
• Price: £5 per couple for members Annual fee not large £6 otherwise
• Format: 3 latin, 3 modern in the first half and 2 of each in the second. There is usually a
• Who goes: Some ex-students and senior EADA competitors
• Travel & parking: 5 mins from the M5
• Other Info: Consistent floor, but not huge