For the record, contra dancing is not against anything, despite the suggestion in the name, said professional dance caller and instructor Donna Hunt. Hunt of Elkins Park, Montgomery County, will be ...

With caller Bob Nicholson offering instruction, contra dancers form a circle in the hall at St. Faustina Parish Center in Nanticoke last fall. The next contra dance at St. Faustina’s is set for March ...

There will be a community contra dance from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at Unitarian Universalist Church in Rutland. The dance will feature caller Licia Gambino Hamilton, fiddler Mark Hamilton ...

SEQUIM — Contra dancing and Scottish music are set at the Upper Room, a historic dance hall, built in 1893, on Friday. The dance will be upstairs at 138 W. Washington St., in Sequim. A beginners’ ...

Fiddlers Barb Schmid and Todd Clewell and Henry Koretzky on guitar, playing as The Contra Rebels, provided music for a contra dance at St. Faustina’s Parish Center in Nanticoke in September, and will ...

If you’ve never heard of contra, it’s best described analogously: like square-dancing, with a “caller” serving as emcee, announcing each beat in any given dance. Like swing dancing, with one role ...