the cactus club LGBT Tea Dances at the Grafton Dance Centre 2025 - 28th December 2025 and 1st February 2026
Home Tea Dance

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Please join us with or without a partner for our gender neutral partner dancing for ballroom, latin, sequence, old time and country. There will be some line dancing with instruction.

Refreshments with a selection of cakes, sandwiches and tea are included to keep your energy up for those Quicksteps and Cha Chas. The venue is unlicensed but you may bring your own drinks.

£10 entry for everyone from 2pm until 6pm including all refreshments

The dances we could do

Quickstep, Modern Waltz (Slow), Foxtrot, Tango, Cha Cha, Rumba, Samba, Jive, Argentine Tango

Mayfair Quickstep, Rumba One, Saunter Together, Cindy Swing, Sally Ann Cha Cha

Boston Twostep, Lilac Waltz, Canadian Barn Dance, Gay Gordons

Wild Wild West, Two Steps, Schottische, Cactus Sway, Sidekick, The Renegade

Various Line Dances

Requests for dances can be taken

Some of the line dances will have a short walk through.

Grafton Dance Centre


The Grafton Dance Centre, 7 Village Way, SE21 7AW

Nearest Stations - North Dulwich :Connections to Peckham Rye and Overground services from Whitechapel and Clapham Junction; London Bridge (16 Mins), Streatham common (11 Mins) and East Croydon (22 mins)

Check TFL and National Rail as changes often happen on Sundays

- Herne Hill :Services on Thameslink connection to Blackfriars (12 mins) and Sutton; St Pancras to Herne Hill (21 mins); Services from Victoria (9 mins) to Beckenham Junction (12 mins)

Buses - 37 (Connections to Putney, Clapham and Peckham); 42 (Liverpool Street, Camberwell and East Dulwich) P4 (Lewisham, Brockley and Brixton Underground)

Some street parking available


Please be aware that we are an LGBTQ+ Club and if you attend you accept that dancing is gender neutral. This is a safe space for people who want to dance with people. Anyone whose behaviour presents as offensive may be asked to leave without refund.

General filming and photography is not allowed unless you obtain permission from the people being filmed or photographed.