Triangle Country Dancers holds numerous contra dancing sessions each month to help cultivate a community based around ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’m not a good dancer at all. My parents knew better than to sign me up for ballet when I was little, and I got even more spatially challenged as I grew up. My friends steer me off the dance floor at ...

Contra, an ancestor to square dancing, is a social dancing style that emerged in the 17th century and migrated to America, ...