</>  ============================================================  ContraDance:

 

</>  =====================================================  Contradance  CALLS:

 

<x>  Contradance  CALLS

(x)     Long Lines     Hay for 4     Hay for 8     New Neighbor     Shadow 2     Pull By your Neighbor / Partner     New Neighbor     Balance     Slide Left / Right     Shadow 1/2     Left Diagonal     2 Ladies Chain Across    

 

<x>  Square Dance  CALLS

(x)     Circle Left/Right     Ladies Roll Away     Forward & Back     Promenade     Allemande Left/Right     Swing your Partner     Swing     Circle     Pass Thru     Dosado     Balance     Into the Middle & Out    

 

</>  ========================================================  Contra  DANCES:

 

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CONTRADANCE LINKS

Los Angeles – California Dance Co-operative     http://www.caldancecoop.org/

Orange County – The Living Tradition

Santa Barbara – Santa Barbara Country Dance Society

San Diego – San Diego Folk Heritage

 

</>  ====================================================  Contradance  BANDS:

 

_ Contradance Band & Caller

_ -> _

USA: 

Syncopaths     Perpetual e-Motion     Wild Asparagus     Great Bear Trio     Crowfoot     Riptide    

Doug Plummer     Notorious     Retrospectacles     Mad Slice     Avant Gardeners     u     u    

 

Syncopaths Contradance Band & Caller

_ -> _

USA: 

 

Asheville Contra Dance - Dancing to the Syncopaths

9:22  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K20y7DKHUw>

 

Perpetual e-Motion Contradance Band & Caller

_ -> _

USA: 

 

Contra Dance with Perpetual e-Motion

9:19  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KevQxr-saFw>

 

Perpetual e-Motion - Dance Flurry 2011 - "Flying Tent" (Std Def)

From <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsX7ksG3EAY>

 

Swingin' Tern Dances: Perpetual e-Motion and Bob Isaacs 4/6/13 contra and waltz

Swingin' Tern Dances in East Hanover, NJ. Perpetual e-Motion features John Coté on guitar, didgeridoo, feet, vocals and electronica along with Ed Howe on fiddle and electronica. Bob Isaacs is calling the contra dance 333 by Steve Zakon-Anderson. Bob is part of the Swingin' Tern community but has garnered national renown for his inventive choreography. This dance is followed by a waltz, the traditional close to any evening of contra dancing.

16:49  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfr6liZo-cQ>

 

Wild Asparagus Contradance Band & Caller

_ -> _

USA: 

 

"Wild Asparagus" at Contrastock 2 contradance, Glen Echo, Md 2012-09-23 / CALLER: George Marshall

10:31  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofoCR_mvbjo>

 

</>  =====================================================  Contradance  SONGS:

 

Whiskey before Breakfast     Arkansas Traveler     Soldier's Joy     St. Anne's Reel     Flop Eared Mule     Cumberland Gap     Benton's Hallucinations    

Sheehan's Reel     Fisher's Hornpipe     Petronella      

Teetotaler     Morrison's Jig      

 

Reels: Swinging On the Gate Set

19 Tunes  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7sjtG3Xe-8&list=PLG3AfdHwlReeongbW-1oq0EFsNeyQRZJl>

 

Night Watch

From <https://folkworks.org/review/the-music-of-contra-dancing/>

 

</>  ====================================================  Contradance  SONGS:

 

Barn Dance- Virginia Reel.mov

11:46  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBBdgcHimoM>

 

Traditional Western Square Dances 1 - Arkansas Traveler

4:52  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwJg0i2ja_g>

 

Barn Dance- Big Mountain Circle.mov

7:31  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4l1HKihSRw>

 

Contra Dancing - Seth Tepfer & ContraForce - The Devil's Backbone

4:34  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpUzBHwGrbY>

 

Perpetual e-Motion - Dance Flurry 2011 - "Flying Tent" (Std Def)

13:22  <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsX7ksG3EAY>

 

Barn Dance- Heel Toe Polka.mov

5:09  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46K4V6xmOww>

 

Contra Dancing Knoxville - Seth Tepfer & Buddy System - Steampunk Cabin Fever - Hopscotch Reel

7:05  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DizBlj9OqpY>

 

Barn Dance- Oh, Johnny Oh.mov

9:00  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9dnTnwObQ>

 

The Rout square dance

7:33  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3GW-w4jm4>

 

Texas Star square dance

Live Band  Singing  2012  5:04  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHqS1bOOLVc>

 

</>  ================================================  Contradance  FESTIVALS:

 

Contra Dance in Belfast, ME-- September 7, 2012

8:32  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdabflEDIWI>

 

Contra Dancing in the Afternoon

9:20  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6t9qAaAPG4>

 

Contradance at Flurry 2020 Saratoga Springs -- Jacqui Grennan with Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand

1:48  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MBpPUUEqpU>

 

Contra Dance at NEFFA 2013 (1)

9:07  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjwO9wQfYOo>

 

Crowfoot in Tacoma

2:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1cPyJWm-g4>

 

Foggy Moon 2015 Contra Dancing to Riptide with George Marshall calling

8:07  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5sbQA4_1ew>

 

Great Bear Groove - Benton's Hallucinations

6:12  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM5vNzFxxBs>

 

Great Bear Groove - Lake City / The Monarch

5:20  <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STRUiouGqQ4>

 

Odd Couple Promenade square dance

3:54  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DRaKAruN3A>

 

Portland Megaband at Folklife 2017

9:45  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACjsIcWahrU>

 

Squareback Reel square dance

3:43  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFQIcHr6tcs>

 

</>  ==================================================  Contradance  LESSONS:

 

Contra Dance Beginners Session - Seth Tepfer PART I

9:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0jIr2UWFg4>

 

Contra Dance Basics

16:10  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNatvaD9YKM>

 

How to Contra Dance - The Basics Ch 2 - Two Dancers - CCD

6:16  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1o7tdtHZyE>

 

How to Contra Dance - The Basics Ch 3 - Four Dancers or Hands Four - CCD

6:12  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBvhyVata9I>

 

How to Contra Dance - The Basics Ch 5 - No More Dizziness When Contra Dancing!

2:48  <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0OLNMKYsZ0>

 

How to Contra Dance - The Basics Ch 6 - Called Dance I - CCD

4:17  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBAH5DTbvWs>

 

How to Contra Dance - The Basics Ch 8 - Tips For New Dancers - CCD

2:59  <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laEJ1cmSH9Y>

 

</>  =======================================================  Contra  DANCERS:

 

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