Fifty years ago, Scott Russell and his girlfriend, Susan Davis, saw an ad in Creative Loafing for international folk dancing at Garden Hills Recreation Center. They decided to attend and joined about ...

A free contra dancing lesson will be offered at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Davis Athletic Club, 1809 Picasso Ave., Davis. Dancing follows from 8 to 10:30 p.m. Mavis McGaugh will be the caller and the band ...

Sandor Farkas grew up contra dancing -- his parents met at a dance in Vermont -- but said he never fully appreciated the New England folk dance until college. Now, the 20-year-old Northampton resident ...

North Berkshire Community Dance will hold its summer contra dances at All Saints Episcopal Church in North Adams. The June 13 dance features caller Seamus Connor.

Twice a month, community members come together to hear fiddles, the voice of a caller and join hands in a traditional folk dance dating back to the 1700s — contra dancing. In Urbana, this traditional ...

The sounds of live fiddle and banjo music instantly transported me back in time as I strolled into South Pasadena War Memorial Hall on a Friday night. I was there to experience my first contra dance, ...

If you’ve never heard of contra, it’s best described analogously: like square-dancing, with a “caller” serving as emcee, announcing each beat in any given dance. Like swing dancing, with one role ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- They headed into the Broadway Grange in groups or pairs or singly, eager to dance together whether they knew each other or not. “Form two lines couple by couple, facing the band, ...

TAUNY will host a Community Contra Dance tonight at the First Presbyterian Church on the Park in Canton. There will be lively music by fiddler and... Mar 29, 2019 — TAUNY will host a Community Contra ...