Gillian Davidson School of Dance

Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music that originated in the early 1970s, mainly from funk and soul music, and derives its name from the French word discothèque (meaning nightclub), coined from disc + bibliotèque (library) by La Discothèque in Rue Huchette (Jones and Kantonen, 1999).

Well-known mid-1970s disco performers included ABBA, Boney M., Chic, Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Eruption, Gloria Gaynor, Diana Ross, the Village People, KC and The Sunshine Band, the Jackson 5, and Barry White. While performers and singers garnered the lion’s share of public attention, the behind-the-scenes producers played an important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the “disco sound”. Many non-disco artists recorded disco songs at the height of disco’s popularity, and films such as Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It’s Friday contributed to disco’s rise in mainstream popularity.
Today every pop group has backing dancers doing disco/freestyle/hip hop dancing.

Freestyle dance taught the general public to express themselves freely to the pop music of the day. It can be danced solo, in pairs and in groups, and covers a range of rhythms & styles.

Disco/Freestyle/hip hop dance requires energy & body movement which is great for keeping you fit!
This class is taught for all levels, see the timetable section of this website for times and locations of a class near you!