Catch the blues with Cash's Juke Joint at The Sound Bar, roll out for Tallahassee Roller Derby or learn pop/techno conra dancing this weekend.

Slip on your dancing shoes Saturday and glide to “Jazz It Up Community Dance & Concert” at the Peru Memorial VFW Post 309, 710 New York 22B, Peru. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with recorded dance music ...

A beginners’ contra dance will take place at the Arbutus Grange, 1229 Surry Road, on Thursday, July 31, from 7-9 p.m.

For more than a quarter-century, dance enthusiasts from many different places have called Murray home for one week a year.

The nonprofit will hold a children's dance from 5-6 p.m. and a beginner's workshop from 6-6:30 p.m. The contra dance will run 6:30-9 p.m.

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Perin Ellsworth-Osanya, 30, a teacher who has been playing music for contra dances since his childhood, said the history of contra dance is what makes it so special.

What is old is new again, what was popular in the past becomes cool once more. That is the case for public dances as recently line dancing has returned in popularity. From downtown Boone to Todd to ...

On Friday night, New Ipswich gave a nod to its 275th Anniversary year by hosting a long-held tradition – the contra dance. The dances were called by Sandy Lafleur, with the band manned by John ...

Drop-in dance classes, a flag retirement ceremony, concerts and stage performances highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Contra dancing originated in English court dances way back in the 1500s and it’s still danced today in Seattle, in some ways little changed from the original idea.

The dances spanned country styles: square, line, contra. Some of the earliest 19th century dance events recorded in Vermont were called kitchen tunks or junkets.