If your dancing feet won't be still,then head out to these pumping Dorset venues

Dance: the best way to keep fit.Dorset particularly around Bournemouth and Poole has a very active dance scene.I should know I am out there alot.

In Bournemouth town centre there is the Pavillion on Westover Road BH1 2BU, which serves primarily as a venue for concerts and shows,but round the back is a ballroom with a good size dance floor.

There are two bars selling massively overpriced drinks though there only ever seems to be one open.I have attended both jive and salsa dancing classes/balls here always a good atmosphere.There are plans to build a casino next door though how this affect the Pavillion is still up in the air.The Councillors keep changing their mind.

Just up the road is Bar So BH1 2BU which is part of the Royal Exeter Hotel in Exeter Road where they do tango dancing on Mondays and salsa on Wednesday.The Bar has recently undergone a big refurb including a big fish tank behind the bar except there are no fish in it.Well perhaps they are on the way.

The crowd here tend to be in their 20s and 30s whereas jive attracts more the 40s and 50s crowd.

This refurb has smartened the place up but has left a smaller dance floor.Cannot see the logic of that.But some people think it's good people watching space.

This joint is just across the road from the B.I.C. that is the Bournemouth International Centre,which hosts the big names that come to the South Coast.(Some do cancel though like Amy Winehouse).Oh and the Tory and Labour Party conferences.

Anyway if you are going to a show at the BIC then go to Bar So either before or after for some of the amber nectar.

Further out from the centre of Bournemouth is the Hamworthy Club BH21 3AE which is not actually in Hamworthy,a suburb of Poole, but closer to Wimborne.

This too has a large dance floor and bar though if you become a member offers meals,squash courts,a gym ,a pitch and putt golf course, five a side football a cricket pitch,oh and a skittle alley.There is dancing here almost every night of the week,usually jive.

So you see Dorset is alive and kicking for both the young and young at heart.

I will leave the night club scene for others to talk about.I am too old for that unless you really really want me to do some research.

Enjoy.

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