Contra dance
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Contra dancing offers 'learning and laughing'Then grab a partner and head over to the Athens Folk Music and Dance Society for the contra dances that are held once a month. "When people hear contra dancing and they have no idea of what that is, I tell them it's kind of like square... In this article: Contra dance and California |
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The State | November 11, 2009
Meetings
...and snacks will be available. Complimentary dance lesson, 7:45-8:15 p.m. Admission, $8; USADance members, $5. www.usadance.us CONTRA DANCE: 7-10:30 p.m. Saturday at the Arsenal Hill Park building, 1900 Lincoln St. (Lincoln and...
In this article: Divine, Lexington, and Columbia High School
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Wikipedia | October 22, 2009
Contra dance
...written as novelties. Until the 1970s it was traditional to play a single tune for the duration of a contra dance (about 5 to 10 minutes). Since then, contra dance musicians have typically played tunes in sets of two or three related (and...
In this article: North America, New England, Ted Sannella, Massachusetts, Boston, and Canada
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Wikipedia | October 22, 2009
Contra dance choreography
This article supplements the main contra dance article. Contra dance choreography specifies the dance formation , the figures, and the sequence of those figures in a dance. The figures usually repeat in a consistent pattern aligned with...
In this article: New England
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Seattle Times | October 08, 2009
Weekend calendar
...Mukilteo Speedway, Mukilteo (cascade.org). SUN Potluck supper, bring a dish to share and your own plate and utensils, 5 p.m.; open-band contra dance, beginners welcome, 6 p.m. Sunday, Gift of Grace Lutheran Church, 2102 N. 40th St., Seattle;...
In this article: Seattle, Pumpkin, Dog, Port Townsend, and Salad bar
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Athens Banner-Herald | October 08, 2009
Gotta have that folk
...Hawkproof Rooster (demonstrating vocalizing in old-time folk); and fiddler Bob Buckingham. Last year's other new attraction was a contra dance and jam session held the night before the festival. This year's dance-and-picking party, which...
In this article: John McCutcheon, Athens, Melting point, Sweet grass, Grammy Award, and Rounder Records
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The State | September 16, 2009
Almanac
...5:15 p.m. Wednesdays (multilevel); 10 a.m. Thursdays (advanced); 1:30 p.m. Fridays (neuropathy). 1650 Park Circle, (803) 779-1971 CONTRA DANCE: 7-10:30 p.m. Saturday at the Arsenal Hill Park building, 1900 Lincoln St. (Lincoln and...
In this article: South Carolina, Probate, Fruit, Islam, and E mail
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Hartford Courant | September 03, 2009
State, Union Offer Incentives To Pratt, Hoping To Reverse Closure Plans
...are to continue today. At a press conference Thursday, state Sen. Gary LeBeau, D-East Hartford, described the negotiations as "a contra dance with three dancers" in which only two had stepped forward, the state and the union. So far, he...
In this article: United Technologies Corp., East Hartford, M. Jodi Rell, Cheshire, Pratt & Whitney, and Connecticut
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Centre Daily Times | August 28, 2009
Runner goes 26.2 for CVIM
Having recently started tango lessons through the Penn State Ballroom Dance Club, I decided to broaden my horizons last week by attending a contra dance hosted by the Central Pennsylvania Country Dance Association, a nonprofit organization...
In this article: Centre County, Pennsylvania, and Friends School
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boston.com - Latest music news | July 23, 2009
Preserving the spirit of the dance
...melodies, and French-Canadian tunes, played in an austere, crisp, and unmistakably Yankee style. The term "contra dance'' can be confusing, because it's used in two distinct, though overlapping ways. One is to describe a particular social...
In this article: New England, Yankee, National Heritage Fellowship, and The Boston Globe
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Wikipedia | February 25, 2009
Contra dance form
This article supplements the main contra dance article. Contra dance form describes the arrangement of dancers into contra dance sets and minor sets. There are various forms, and each dance's choreography specifies its formation. A...
In this article: Ted Sannella, Peterborough, New Hampshire, and Becket, Massachusetts
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Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) refers to several partnered folk dance styles, sometimes described as New England folk dance, in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length. Contra dances can be found around the world, though they are especially popular in North America: There are regularly scheduled contra dances in Central America, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and in any given week there may be dozens of contra dances across the United States (see "Finding contra dances", below).
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