GOSHEN — On a chilly Saturday evening, around 50 people put on their most comfortable shoes and made their way to Goshen First Church. They were there for fellowship, fun, exercise and, most ...

Chattanooga Traditional Dance Society presents its monthly Contra Dance Open to All, featuring calling by Matt Hawkins and music by Evan Kinney and the Fly By Nights on Saturday from 7:30-11 p.m., at ...

Hartford Community Dance will hold its annual New Year’s Eve contra dance Friday at 6:30 p.m. at town hall, 50 S. Main St. Music will be by Perpetual e-Motion. The event includes a pot luck dinner, a ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado – It was that one word – contra – that always puzzled me. For years, I’ve see mentions of contra dances being held in local gymnasiums and halls, but I just couldn’t get ...

Chattanooga Traditional Dance Society (CTDS) presents an English Country Dance and a New Year’s Contra Dance on Saturday, January 13 at Brainerd United Methodist Church’s Lundy Hall Gym, 4315 Brainerd ...

Contra dancing has been around since the 1700s. If you don't know it — it's kind of like square dancing but with long lines of dancers. The dance is having a renaissance around the country thanks to a ...

Along with formal court dancing, parlor dancing, square dancing, hoedowning, flatfoot dancing and jigging, contra dancing has survived in the Eastern USA for generations, and Birdsboro is an epicenter ...

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 in hand. It’s not long before cheering, stomping and the twang of ...

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 ...