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Line Dancing in
South London
But
In
Balham Silver Dollar- Mondays
Lines
and Bears on Tuesday at Bar Code Vauxhall
are
recommended venues to learn and enjoy line dance
if you
are unable to get to these clubs then you need to contact the
UKA in Blackpool (01253 408828) or the IDTA in Brighton (01273
685652)
for a local teacher to you
a history
When
Borderlines opened its first club in March 1995 at the Bedford
Hotel, Balham, little did we know how popular line dancing would
become and how Borderlines would develop.
But Borderlines, Peter and Nick, had been involved in line dancing
before then. The Cactus Club at the Bell, Kings Cross was created
after a chance visit to the Cactus Club, New York that I made
in May 1993.
Line dance exclusive clubs were unknown in this country before
then. The Cactus Club took a new approach and attracted a lot
of people who have since become “household names”
in the line dance world. I was the first teacher at the club and
it was only after the brewery closed the Bell, that the Cactus
Club ceased.
In 1995, Nick and I decided to try and find a base in South London,
the only other club of any note being in the North. All other
clubs in the south were “old style” country &
western shoot out clubs with dancing, where line dancing was a
small part, if any, of the evening. The Balham club opened with
a good attendance of people (We opened using the name Lone Star,
but that was changed later to South of the Border), initially
once a week, and later going twice weekly.
At around the same time Nick founded
Lines
& Bears at Duke’s in Vauxhall, where he was followed
by many of the old Bell regulars.
When we started at the Rivoli
Ballroom in February 1996 we used the name Borderlines for the
first time, and the 'B' was now establish as the common letter....Balham
and Brockley. Beckenham opened in June 1996 at the Regal Ballroom
and finally, in March 1997, Bexley, at the Marlowe Rooms in Sidcup,
was taken over from another organisation.
The four Borderlines clubs and Lines & Bears were now established
and the customers of all the clubs turned up for the six nights
that Borderlines offered teaching and dancing. Also the Redneck
Rodeo at the Rivoli Ballroom on the second Saturday of every month
provided a great social opportunity for all our customers to meet
and dance.
After five years in Balham, Borderlines
left the Bedford and passed the club over to Rob Rundle’s
‘Silver Dollar’. Bexley was passed to Karen and Michelle
who run Texas Rose clubs. Beckenham’s Regal venue closed
in 2001 but the Sunday nights moved to Dulwich with David and
Michael. With problems at the Rivoli both Wednesdays and the Monthly
Rodeo had to close, but St Cyprian’s maintained our presence
in Brockley.
Few line dance clubs have
survived as well as Borderlines and some clubs still exist in
different names.
We tried to offer a good value for money evening and attracted
good numbers at all the venues.
See dance for some of the 300 plus
dances that have been taught at our various venues over the years.
The way we taught covered dances both old and new makes us the
first choice for our customers and the large number of teachers
who attended our clubs........Peter Flockhart (AUKA / AIDTA)
If it's a B, it must be Borderlines
Mondays -Balham
Tuesdays - Bexley
Wednesdays - Brockley
Thurdays - Balham
Sundays - Beckenham
made up the Borderlines club nights
March 1995 - December 2001
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