North Atlantic Steps

10/28/2026

Sad update for today! It appears Covid is making the rounds through RVA once again. Stay safe and healthy and see you for our next lesson on NOVEMBER 11TH!

10/18/2026

The Walls of Limerick 🏰 Another fun look at our Autumn Ceilidh!

10/18/2026

And that’s a wrap on our 2026 Autumn Ceilidh! 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🎶 Thank you to all of you who came out and took to the floor — and to our team of awesome musicians who got our toes tapping! See y’all next time — or, if you aren’t already a student, at one of our future classes on Wednesdays at 6pm!

10/17/2026

You can’t miss the balloons and signs…..and cake!!!! See you tonight from 6pm-8pm for live music and dancing at The Dance Space (6004-A W Broad Street RVA, above Mekong Restaurant and The Answer Brew Pub!)

10/16/2026

Just one more sleep until our 2026 Autumn Ceilidh! 🎶 Find the balloons in front of 6004-A W. Broad Street and follow the stairs to the second floor — you won’t miss the us! 🎻 🎹 Haven’t bought a ticket yet? You can still get one on our website or by paying at the door. 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦

10/11/2026

HALF OFF TICKETS TODAY ONLY 🎶 🍁 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦

With less than seven days until our Autumn Ceilidh, you don’t want to miss out on the chance to dance to LIVE music and beginner friendly dances from Ireland, Scotland, and Nova Scotia right here in RVA! 📍

Get your tickets while they’re still here, and invite a friend! ☘️

Join North Atlantic Steps, Richmond's very own recreational Irish and Cape Breton step dance school for adults , for our second annual Autumn Ceilidh on Saturday, October 17th from 6:00pm — 8:00pm! A ceilidh (pronounced kay-lee) is a Scottish Gaelic term for a lively social gathering wi

10/10/2026

About the Dancing 🎵 👞 ☘️

A Ceilidh (pronounced kay-lee) is a Scottish Gaelic term for lively social gathering with music, dancing, and community celebration. We will begin our Spring Ceilidh with a fun, beginner-friendly lesson featuring partner dances from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Cape Breton’s dance traditions largely came to the area by Scottish immigrants from the “highlands and islands” of Scotland. With square dances characterized by high-energy fiddling, a lack of formal callers, and all-ages participation, they are the perfect dances for beginners and seasoned dancers alike!

Join us on October 17th — you might be surprised how much you are capable of! Link in bio for tickets.

10/09/2026

Up next for our Autumn Ceilidh musicians is Annabelle Bugay, owner and director of North Atlantic Steps, who will be playing piano and calling dances 🎶 🎹 👞

Annabelle first began Irish dancing at the age of six under the An Cor Rud School of Irish Dance in Richmond, Virginia. A competitive dancer for many years, she reached the open championship level before deciding to follow her passion for old-style step dancing and social dancing.

She lived in Limerick, Ireland for two years where she learned Sean Nós (old-style) Irish dancing, before moving to Sydney, Nova Scotia where she completed her BA in Music and Folklore at Cape Breton University.

Today, Annabelle lives in Richmond, VA where she runs North Atlantic Steps, a recreational Irish and Cape Breton step dance school for adults.

10/08/2026

Each week, our beginner and intermediate classes overlap for 15 minutes so that we can work on new pieces together and get to know each other better, even if we’re not in the same class.

Sometimes we work on improvisation skills, sometimes we work on our stamina, sometimes we learn new step combinations. And then there’s nights like tonight where we do an Irish ceili dance instead! ☘️ 🇮🇪

(By the way — you can learn this dance too at our Autumn Ceilidh on October 17!)

10/08/2026

With only a week and a half until North Atlantic Steps’ Autumn Ceilidh, what better way to get excited than to meet our musicians? Meet Wayne Hill, our resident fiddler at NAS! 🎻 🎶 ☘️

Wayne’s had the good fortune to enjoy a lifetime of music making with family and friends. Along the way a love for chamber music evolved into a passion for fiddling’s many connections with folk music around the world. An avid composer, his column for Fiddler Magazine (since 2022) always includes his compositions for fiddle in a variety of styles.

He’s always 100% in with his fiddle and guitar in a wide variety of genres and settings: including performing, recording, composing, teaching for the Williamsburg Montessori School, and, since 1992, performing, recording, and composing (winning two Emmys for the latter) for The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.