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 ...

The Wyoming Valley Contra Dance committee will host a contra dance from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 12, in the Cultural Centre ...

It’s Tuesday night and a group of adults from many backgrounds head to the Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center for a weekly Contra Dance — a form of folk dancing said to have originated in the 17th century.

PA Live co-host Chris Bohinski greets his fellow co-host Rachel Malak with a courtly bow as the two encounter each other during a short contra dance that was part of their April 25 show. Bohinski and ...

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

Dancing is exercise. You put yourself on a dance floor and surrender your body to the sounds of the band or the D.J. providing the audio motivation for your movement, and unless you’re mimicking an ...

Before you even walk into Nelson Town Hall on any given Monday night, you feel what's happening inside. Stomp, stomp, clap. A fiddler picks out a tune in the background, but it's almost incidental.

The atmosphere is family friendly and encouraging to newcomers at the monthly contra dances put on by Valparaiso Oldtime Dance, as dancers found out on a recent Saturday night at the Banta Senior ...

In the last 30 years, I've been contra dancing a grand total of seven times — and yet it is one of my absolute favorite things to do. I like the big, crowded boisterous version of a contra dance. If ...