The sound of lively fiddle music filled the Pacific Lodge Masonic Hall on a recent Wednesday evening as caller Hannah Johlas directed the action through a microphone, telling the two dozen contra ...

It’s perhaps the most exotic dance music to hit Miami in recent memory: contradance. It’s Americana, the real thing, a far more sophisticated version of the square-dancing you may remember from gym ...

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 ...

Three years ago, a friend peeled me out of my apartment, insisting we go out dancing like people our age were supposed to do on Saturday nights. What she neglected to tell me until we pulled into the ...

Learn to Square Dance — Sonoran Stables Dance Hall, 4231 S. Pauline Lane. Singles and couples welcomed. First visit free. 7-9 p.m. Nov. 15 and 20. $7. 885-6833. Scottish Country Dancing Classes — ...

In the last 30 years, I've been contra dancing a grand total of seven times — and yet it is one of my absolute favorite things to do. I like the big, crowded boisterous version of a contra dance. If ...

From the time I was a young child and attended high holiday services, I always felt a shiver up my spine during the prayer where the community begs God not to abandon them like the way elders are ...

This activity is “happy-making,” promises Laura Mé Smith as she heads for the North Olympic Peninsula. Smith is a contra-dance caller, a woman determined to put a spring in your step and a swing in ...

When music, communication and touch meld together, they become dance. For as long as people have been walking, they've been dancing, and a good amount of them seem to enjoy dance more. There's a good ...