In a beginning level or a community Contra Dance that's just starting up, they will run six to eight minute sets and that's quite a bit longer in a more sophisticated more advanced Contra Dance where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the sun sets in the town of Nelson on Monday night, a crowd of people meander into Town Hall with instruments and water bottles ...

NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Jan. 10. Never, in his long playing life, has Jay Finkelstein gone to a contra dance in a library. But he’s ready for the first time tonight as his band, ...

At first glance, a room full of contra dancers looks like mildly organized chaos. But look more closely, and patterns emerge: Four dancers with right hands touching create a spinning star. Long lines ...

An eclectic crowd of 200 Contra dancers floods the floor as rich Celtic-style music energizes the gym. A funky-hatted female caller announces moves and dancers of all shapes and sizes begin swinging ...

Though the prefix "contra-" may mean against or opposite to, the members of Louisiana Contras & Squares have found plenty of common ground and formed a community with each other. At least one Saturday ...

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 ...

This story originally appeared in the April 2026 issue of Town&Gown magazine. Contra dance is experiencing a rebirth in State College. This traditional, easy-to-learn form of American country dance is ...

Though unknown to many people, contra dancing is practiced with great devotion and abandon throughout the United States by fans of this lively dance form. What’s striking is that a remarkably high ...