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 ...

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 ...

The atmosphere is family friendly and encouraging to newcomers at the monthly contra dances put on by Valparaiso Oldtime Dance, as dancers found out on a recent Saturday night at the Banta Senior ...

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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, ...

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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, ...

Contra dancers form a circle during a Wyoming Valley Contra Dance at St. Faustina’s Parish Center, 520 Hanover St., Nanticoke. The Parish Center will be the setting for a dance from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday ...

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 ...

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 ...