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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The music starts and you tap your toes, your fingers, your hands — anything but dance. Dancing with others, in front of others, can be scary. And occasionally funny, as advanced Spanish students at ...

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 ...

Want to meet new people, get some exercise and try something different? Consider contra dancing. Lancaster Contra Dance has been holding dances since 1995. "It's good, clean fun," says Karen Smoker, ...

Stepping into the Kuhn Village Barn on a recent Sunday night was a bit like stepping into 1910. A dozen men and women shuffled over the worn, wooden floor in the barn, which was built a century ago on ...

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, ...