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Celebrate Spring with a Contra Dance |
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May 12, 2016 |
Celebrate Spring! Bonners Ferry Contra Dance May
20, 2016 from 7:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. at the
American Legion Hall, 6416 Kootenai St, Bonners
Ferry. Featuring live music by Out of the Wood,
with Emily Faulkner calling. $5 per person or
$20 per family. Please bring a potluck treat to
share.
Enjoy live music, dance your heart out, meet
your neighbors, and participate in a lively
dance community that extends from coast to
coast. Contra dancing is an old New England
dance form that has experienced a tremendous
revival in the last fifty years. We contra dance
to live music—often a fiddle with guitar, piano,
banjo or other accompaniment, playing mainly
jigs and reels. A caller teaches the dances by
walking all the dancers through each of figures
before the music begins, then calling the
figures during the dance.
Each dance of the evening begins with lines of
couples facing couples, joining hands to dance a
number of figures together. With each repetition
of the tune and the figures, the dance moves
each couple on to a new couple in the line. The
figures are repeated, and everyone eventually
dances with everyone in the set. At the end of
one dance, it is customary to find a new partner
for the next dance; men and women ask each other
to dance. No need to bring a partner.
Previous dancing experience is not necessary. If
you can walk quickly, count to eight, and know
right from left, you can contra dance.
First-time dancers are heartily encouraged to
arrive on time for an introductory dance at 7:00
p.m. Comfortable shoes and comfortable,
breathable clothing is best to wear: contra
dancing is good exercise! Questions? Call Connie
Sue 946-7301 or Mary 267-5148. |
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