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San Diego English Country Dancers SDECD is a 501c7 nonprofit organization that provides avid English country dancers in San Diego and surrounding areas with opportunities and a venue to partake of this lovely form of dance. SDECD was founded in October 2000 by Ellen Riley an English country enthusiast who moved to San Diego from Philadelphia in the early 1980s. In San Diego she found the outlets for fulfilling her passion to be rather wanting she actually practiced ECD figures by spreading towels on the floors and using them as surrogate partners. Soon enough and eager to find likeminded fleshandblood beings to dance with Ellen founded this organization and began holding weekly dances in a studio on Oak Knolls Road in Poway.