With caller Bob Nicholson offering instruction, contra dancers form a circle in the hall at St. Faustina Parish Center in Nanticoke last fall. The next contra dance at St. Faustina’s is set for March ...

There will be a community contra dance from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at Unitarian Universalist Church in Rutland. The dance will feature caller Licia Gambino Hamilton, fiddler Mark Hamilton ...

Contra dancing is a traditional form of dancing, like a square dance, except is danced in long lines of couples, explained Sue Burns of Canaan, N.Y., a committee member and publicity person for Lenox ...

POCATELLO — A community contra dance is scheduled to run from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Jan. 11 at the Assemble’ Learning and Event Center, 820 E. Young St. in Pocatello. Beginners’ instruction/warm-up will be ...

SEQUIM — Contra dancing and Scottish music are set at the Upper Room, a historic dance hall, built in 1893, on Friday. The dance will be upstairs at 138 W. Washington St., in Sequim. A beginners’ ...

Fiddlers Barb Schmid and Todd Clewell and Henry Koretzky on guitar, playing as The Contra Rebels, provided music for a contra dance at St. Faustina’s Parish Center in Nanticoke in September, and will ...

On a chilly Saturday evening, around 50 people put on their most comfortable shoes and made their way to Goshen First Church.

If you’ve never heard of contra, it’s best described analogously: like square-dancing, with a “caller” serving as emcee, announcing each beat in any given dance. Like swing dancing, with one role ...