These pages
were last updated on March 4, 2000, and they now make iCab smile! (Which means they're HTML 4.0 compliant.) If you want to grumble you can send me email. (Has anyone ever followed that link to Scott Pakin's complaint letter generator?)
For an up-to-date list of local Web pages, visit Bob's Contra page. If you don't know what contra dancing is, check out Gary Shapiro's page. And join us on the Usenet newsgroup <rec.folk-dancing>.
Bob took the time to thank me for coming up with the idea of a national dance page. I'd like to thank all the people who have taken the time over these five years (yikes!) to create and maintain all the local pages, especially Bryan Walls and Gary Shapiro, who were there first and whose fine local pages inspired my page. And deepest thanks to a new local dancer, who loves the dance more than even I or Larry or Alan, and who inspired this round of updates.
I'd like help updating the listing by day of the week--it's often hard to get that information out of the local pages. If you have new entries, please send them to me; if you see entries that should be deleted, likewise. I'd prefer (or hope, anyway) that any new entries have links to local Web pages. And I'm also looking for more entries for the dance weekend listing.
[ New Web pages | Local pages | Even more pages ]
[ Articles, essays and animadversions | Books | Recordings | Dances ]
[ Local Web pages: |
New England |
Mid-Atlantic |
Midwest |
Mid-South and South |
Southwest and West |
West Coast |
Canada |
indexed by state ]
[ Local Dances: | by day of the week | by region and day ]
[ Dance weekends and camps | People and Music | Miscellaneous resources ]
Chip Handler's About Contra Dance page includes some animated diagrams.
Stokin' the Contra Fires by Sheridan Hill
Contra Dancing and Matrices by Ivars Peterson, about Bernie Scanlon, a dancer and mathematician from California.
Chapters from Erik Hoffman's fine book Contradictations.
Mark Carroll's article page.
Ryan Thomson's reviews of dance and music events also includes various other interesing writing.
The heart of this page is the index of articles on dancing, There's no place like home... by Caroline Fahrney
Dancing the Woman's Role by Bob Golder
Good Contra and Square Dancing Defined by Paul Tyler
Everything About Dancing That Nobody Ever Talks About
by Dave Goldman
Changes in contra dance choreography by Jenny Beer
Improving Problem Dancers by Dave Cottle
Contra Classifications by Carol Thompson and Steve Satterfield.
Guns and Etiquette at the Dance by Bill Meyers
More articles on dancing...
Karl's Contra Corner
Dance Trance 1999
Doug Plummer's gallery
Some Clifftop photos
Rory Martin maintains the Dixie Contra Dance site for info on monthly dances in Front Royal, Va.
The Southeastern Ohio Traditional Dance Society has a Web page again. They dance in Athens, Ohio.
Martha Edwards, one of my favorite people anywhere, maintains Stringdancer's homepage.They're from St. Louis.
The Last Gaspe is one of my favorite dance bands; I can't say enough about the pleasures of calling with them at the final Northfield Dawn Dance. (RIP) They showed up at 8:15, danced till three, then played till 7, keeping a hundred dancers on the floor till dawn. A worthy finale. They're from Madison, Wisconsin.
The Hotpoint Stringband are some of the sweetest people I know (and a smokin' band too). They're from Athens, Ohio.
Ten Penny Bit, from Louisville, is another great dance band; they form the core of Louisville's legendary Monday night open band, the band (and the community) that made me a dancer and that's still the best place I know.
Mike Richardson maintains the Childplay homepage. They're from all over the place, and all the fiddlers play instruments made by Bob Childs.
Charlie Hancock maintains the ContraBandits homepage. They're from the San Francisco Bay area.
Pigs Eye Landing is a fine dance band from the Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Mat La Rose maintains the Fingerpix homepage. They're from Philadelphia.
Jeff Hersk maintains the Carnival Knowledge webpage. They're from Nashville.
David DiGiuseppe maintains the Footloose homepage. (North Carolina)
The Elftones homepage. Two people, who sound like four.
Cora Bigwood maintains the Permanent Wave homepage. They're from Houston.
Guy Byars maintains the Brittany Bay homepage. They're from Cincinnati.
Bill Dudley maintains the Squirrely Germs homepage. They're from Florida.
The Hillbillies From Mars homepageThey're from the San Francisco Bay area)
The Atomic City Rhythm Rascals are from Knoxville, Tennessee.
CyberYankee's Contratopia page includes information on a Burlington dance, dance, and a Bristol, VT dance.
Chip Hedler maintains a Wolcott, VT dance page.
Gary Wachs maintains the ContraSENE page for southeastern New England.
Red Townsend maintains a Montpelier, VT contra dance page.
Paul Fussell maintains the Sacramento Dance page.
Marty Spencer maintains the Lake Worth dance page and the Miami dance page.
The Orlando Contra Dance now has a page, maintained by HalseyDog. You might want to set your monitor for black and white.
Jonathan Sivier maintains the Urbana Country Dancers homepage.
David Ernst maintains the Bloomington Old Time Music and Dance page.
Roger Alexander maintains the Iowa Dance Calendar
Keith Gillis maintains the Glen Echo Friday Night Dance web page.
Marguerite Plank mainains the Mid-Maryland Folk Arts Council page.
John Roberts maintains the Southern Maryland Traditional Music And Dance page.
Bruce Meyer maintains a Woodbury contra dance page and a Wallingford Grange contra dance page.
Jon Weinberg maintains the Northboro contra dance page
Dick Forsyth maintains the Folk Arts Center of New England contra dance page
Gary A. O'Connor maintains the Country Life, Dance and Music Society page for Pittsfield, MA.
Charlie Seelig maintains a Rehoboth, MA page
The Western Massachusetts page covers dances for the Guiding Star Grange in Greenfield and the Munson Library in Amherst.
Laura Estes and Rab Cummings maintains the Bozeman Folklore Society page that lists contra dance information.
The Missoula Folklore Society has information on contra dancing in Missoula and the Bear Hug Mountain Festival.
Martin Gaskell maintains a Lincoln, NE contra page.
Lonnie Ludeman maintains the Southern New Mexico Music & Dance Society page, with dance info for Las Cruces.
Dan Allison maintains the Southern Nevada Old-Time Contra Dancers page. They occasionally dance near Las Vegas.
Tamara Henderson maintains the Walkill Valley Contra Dance page. They dance in New Paltz, NY.
Mike Praeger maintains aDown East Folk Arts Society homepage,which has contra dance information for Beaufort, NC.
John Brockman maintains a Cincinnati Contradancers homepage.
Mark Lewis maintains the Northeast Oregon Folklore Society page which lists dance info for Grande, OR.
Caroline Klug and Erik Weberg maintains the Bend, OR contra dance page.
Michael D. Drews maintains a Utah Contra Dance page.
Kathy Bilton maintains a Sheperdstown Music and Dance info page.
Snowball
Knoxville Dance Weekend
Pigtown Fling NEFFA
Asheville Summer Soiree
Balance & Swim Valparaiso Barn Dance summer weekend
Clifftop
Sugar Hill Lawrence Barn Dance fall weekend
Gypsy Moon Ball
Breaking Up Thanksgiving
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