Contra Dances (mostly) by Michael Fuerst

(Last updated 26 January 2024)
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Introduction

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OH MY GOSH!!     Another collection of 50+ dances !!!
How to sort through them?     Good question !!!

Of course, you will find here a master list of all the dances (sortable by name, formation, difficulty or date), most with a brief description—not all that helpful to a caller.

So to guide you this collection, the Contents (immediately below) has links and pull-down list that reveal

The dances in this collection mostly range from intermediate to advanced.  Many are more challenging for callers to visualize/teach/prompt than they are for dancers to dance, and thus require careful study by the caller.  Hence the dance descriptions often include visualization and teaching hints to assist callers in developing their own words for teaching and prompting. Sometimes rather lengthy teaching suggestions (developed from my experience) are provided.

Conventions used in dance descriptions:

I sometimes write several alternatives for a dance. When such appear, initially concentrate on the first presented version.

Contact me at mjerryfuerst@yahoo.com with any comments, suggestions, discovered misprints, and your experiences calling any of the dances here.

Thanks to Colin Hume for initially converting this page from text-like to web-like (HTML/CSS)

Contents

Text next to a ● is a link
Text next to a ▶ changes color when hovered; clicking toggles a pull-down list of dances
Some dances appear in multiple lists.