About Us

Hello, our names are Julie and Brian (hence JB), we live in Bicester, Oxfordshire.  We are Western Dance Instructors and we love dancing to Country & Western music of all sorts, and have been dancing ourselves since around 1995 .

Line dancing was very fashionable at that time, and dancing was somewhere we could enjoy and socialise with our 10 year old daughter.  She loved the dancing ,and with us being fans of Country & Western, we loved the music.

We were lucky enough to have one of the best clubs around (we think!) where we were living in Totton, Southampton.  The club, named Sidewinders, had some of the best instructors in Ian and Sue.  They taught with skill, style and enthusiasm, retaining the tradition of country music as fundamental to the club.   Sidewinders is now in the very capable hands of Ray and Pat and still going strong.
 

"Many good friends and sooooo many good times."

Progressing naturally from line dancing into partner and couples dancing (Ian and Sue taught all 3 styles), we found ourselves dancing much more partner and couples and less line.  This also coincided with some line dancing clubs moving away from Country & Western and seemingly, in our opinion, trying to make each dance more complicated than the last.

Brian's work then led to a move from Totton to Bicester, so we thought we would find a Western Dance club and continue to enjoy our dancing (easy eh?).  Unfortunately we failed to find a dancing club in the area.  There are some excellent Country and Western Clubs but they usually state "no line dancing" which we took to exclude partner and couples dancing as well. 

This led to a gap in our dancing of several years before our friends persuaded us that Milton Keynes was not too far to travel for a good dancing class.  We began attending Bill Gallagher’s class (Choreographer of one of my favourite dances - Feel Free), and we have been dancing at Bill's class ever since.

As we are enjoying our dancing as much as ever, and knowing that no classes existed in the Bicester area, we decided to do something about it.  We are aware there is a line dance class, but no partner and couple.  To this end we went out and obtained some teaching qualifications.  We settled on the BWDA²⁰⁰⁰ as our Dance Organisation, one of several that exist in the UK.

So Country & Western Dancing Partner and Couple has arrived in the Bicester/Westcott area.

See the contacts page for details on how to get in touch with us and to book a place at a class.

We will be happy to hear from you.

Best wishes

Julie and Brian