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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 ...

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 in hand. It’s not long before cheering, stomping and the twang of ...

It’s Tuesday night and a group of adults from many backgrounds head to the Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center for a weekly Contra Dance — a form of folk dancing said to have originated in the 17th century.

Through Bemidji Contra Dance, Wendy Greenberg brings traditional Contra Dance musicians from around the region to Bemidji's Headwaters School of Music and the Arts for monthly workshops with local ...

With caller Bob Nicholson offering instruction, contra dancers form a circle in the hall at St. Faustina Parish Center in Nanticoke. You can expect a similar scene this Sunday, April 6, at St.

Twice a month, community members come together to hear fiddles, the voice of a caller and join hands in a traditional folk dance dating back to the 1700s — contra dancing. In Urbana, this traditional ...

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 ...

REHOBOTH — For more than three decades, dancers in Rehoboth have met at Goff Hall to make magic, hooping, hollering and following instructions as a fiddle fuels the movement. The Rehoboth Contra Dance ...

The Central Pennsylvania Country Dance Association is celebrating its 30th year in State College. Bruce Young Photo provided Not many may know it, but Centre County is home to a long-standing ...

Dancing is exercise. You put yourself on a dance floor and surrender your body to the sounds of the band or the D.J. providing the audio motivation for your movement, and unless you’re mimicking an ...

LENOX -- Bill Olsen, contradance caller and musician who creates his own dances, had just finished playing a 4-hour contra dance in Portland, Maine, for a large group of kids. "It was totally ...