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

Chattanooga Traditional Dance Society presents a Memorial Day Contra Dance on Saturday from 7:30-11 p.m., featuring calling by Jane Ewing and music by Girl Time and the Do Right Daddies. New this week ...

Chattanooga Traditional Dance Society presents its monthly Contra Dance Open to All, featuring calling by Matt Hawkins and music by Evan Kinney and the Fly By Nights on Saturday from 7:30-11 p.m., at ...

An eclectic crowd of 200 Contra dancers floods the floor as rich Celtic-style music energizes the gym. A funky-hatted female caller announces moves and dancers of all shapes and sizes begin swinging ...

SUNDELL AND FRIEND: Contra dancing comes to Arkansas. When I first heard the term contra dancing I thought it was something illicit — a guerrilla movement whose members meet for a tango in dank ...

Though unknown to many people, contra dancing is practiced with great devotion and abandon throughout the United States by fans of this lively dance form. What’s striking is that a remarkably high ...

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 ...

Along with formal court dancing, parlor dancing, square dancing, hoedowning, flatfoot dancing and jigging, contra dancing has survived in the Eastern USA for generations, and Birdsboro is an epicenter ...