Contra

 
 
 
 

Future dates in 2024:

June 16: Alexander Mitchell and friends with Michael Karcher

July 28: Playing with Fyre with Timothy Klein

August 25: High Drive with TBA

September 15: Starling with Mary Wesley

October 27: Froghammer with Caroline Barnes

November 24: Waverley Station with TBA

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The Bumper Car Pavilion has a wonderful wooden floor and the  overhead radiant heaters will keep you toasty warm throughout the winter months no matter the weather!

Tickets are $15 payable at the door either by cash or Venmo.  

Please provide a valid email address when you register at the door.  We will add you to our email list and inform you about future dances.  You can unsubscribe at any time.

Unless you opt-out, we will also inform you if there has been a report of Covid infection.  Please let us know when you register. 

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Covid policies:

This is a mask-optional event.  We recommend vaccinations, boosters and masks, but they are not required.  If you are symptomatic, or have tested positive, or if you have recently been exposed to someone who tested positive for Covid, please stay home. If you test positive within 48 hours after attending a dance, please email us immediately at: dancingplanet@erols.com

 

Also of interest:

The Folklore Society of Greater Washington (FSGW) and the Friday Night Dancers co-sponsor a series of dances on Friday nights at the Spanish Ballroom.  More information at https://fsgw.org/Friday-contra-square-dance.

 
 

 

Dancing Planet Productions

Sunday Afternoon Contra Dance

THE FRENCH CONNECTION!

Sunday, April 28, 2024

3:00-6:00 pm
Glen Echo Park
Bumper Car Pavilion
7300 MacArthur Boulevard
Glen Echo, MD

        New dancer introductory session at 2:30 pm

Do you ever wonder why we say do-si-do and not back-to-back? What about promenade and allemande? We don’t think about it much, but a lot of our dance moves originally came from France. For centuries, England and France imitated each other’s dance styles, and eventually that mixture ended up here, giving us our contradances (“longways”) and squares (quadrilles).  Come explore these connections, dancing a mixture of contras, singing squares, and dances from France and elsewhere that show evidence of this great cultural exchange.
 
Susan Taylor, Janine Smith, and Leslie Barr call the figures to music by Leslie Barr (fiddle), Bill Quern (fiddle/banjo/mandolin/melodeon) and Sarah Gowan (guitar).
 
Cost: $15 cash (preferred) or Venmo at the door, no cards