#contradance — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #contradance, aggregated by home.social.
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Flipping the contradancing script
The young dance
https://richardsholmes.com/doctroid/2026-04-19_flipping-the-contradancing-script/
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Flipping the contradancing script
The young dance
https://richardsholmes.com/doctroid/2026-04-19_flipping-the-contradancing-script/
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Flipping the contradancing script
The young dance
https://richardsholmes.com/doctroid/2026-04-19_flipping-the-contradancing-script/
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Flipping the contradancing script
The young dance
https://richardsholmes.com/doctroid/2026-04-19_flipping-the-contradancing-script/
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Flipping the contradancing script
The young dance
https://richardsholmes.com/doctroid/2026-04-19_flipping-the-contradancing-script/
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Current I-Ds about seeking quickly in Ogg files and creating Matroska based stem files for DJs not niche enough for you? I threw up another one about tagging recordings of traditional called folk dances. If you're tagging your music library and have a lot of contra or what not that you need to search on or field recordings of fiddle tunes you need to archive or what not, feedback would be appreciated:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-swhited-contra-tags/
#Contra #ContraDance #SquareDance #ECD #EnglishCountryDance #InternetDraft #IETF
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Current I-Ds about seeking quickly in Ogg files and creating Matroska based stem files for DJs not niche enough for you? I threw up another one about tagging recordings of traditional called folk dances. If you're tagging your music library and have a lot of contra or what not that you need to search on or field recordings of fiddle tunes you need to archive or what not, feedback would be appreciated:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-swhited-contra-tags/
#Contra #ContraDance #SquareDance #ECD #EnglishCountryDance #InternetDraft #IETF
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Current I-Ds about seeking quickly in Ogg files and creating Matroska based stem files for DJs not niche enough for you? I threw up another one about tagging recordings of traditional called folk dances. If you're tagging your music library and have a lot of contra or what not that you need to search on or field recordings of fiddle tunes you need to archive or what not, feedback would be appreciated:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-swhited-contra-tags/
#Contra #ContraDance #SquareDance #ECD #EnglishCountryDance #InternetDraft #IETF
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Current I-Ds about seeking quickly in Ogg files and creating Matroska based stem files for DJs not niche enough for you? I threw up another one about tagging recordings of traditional called folk dances. If you're tagging your music library and have a lot of contra or what not that you need to search on or field recordings of fiddle tunes you need to archive or what not, feedback would be appreciated:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-swhited-contra-tags/
#Contra #ContraDance #SquareDance #ECD #EnglishCountryDance #InternetDraft #IETF
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Current I-Ds about seeking quickly in Ogg files and creating Matroska based stem files for DJs not niche enough for you? I threw up another one about tagging recordings of traditional called folk dances. If you're tagging your music library and have a lot of contra or what not that you need to search on or field recordings of fiddle tunes you need to archive or what not, feedback would be appreciated:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-swhited-contra-tags/
#Contra #ContraDance #SquareDance #ECD #EnglishCountryDance #InternetDraft #IETF
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I got the recordings I made live at the Trolley Barn with Seth Tepfer a few days ago up on the Internet Archive! I'm learning a ton just from re-listening to these and hearing my mistakes while DJing, and (on the calling side) hearing Seth's excellent calling and teaching. If you're a contra dance fan, give them a listen!
https://archive.org/details/2026-02-24_trolley_barn_contra
Metadata and details for each track are also available on MusicBrainz if you're curious about any of the dances or tunes:
https://musicbrainz.org/event/1a9bf626-3dae-47c0-b034-fb9ca6a224e0
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Last night was BFMS' annual Midwinter Ball. A few of the regulars couldn't make it because their cars weren't dug out yet, but the church hall where the dance is held had adequate plowing in the parking lot, so somewhere around 85-90 of us were able to dance to great music. The band played a little on the fast side, and more repeats than usual, to make sure we all stayed warm. I had never danced a dance with a backward progression before!
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I have written the most niche thing for my own personal use, but maybe someone else out there on the internet will find it useful. A list of tags to use in music metadata for recordings that contain contra or square dances (or other called dances). ie. what dance is it, who's the caller, etc. Hopefully having this written down will make me be more consistent about the tags when I upload recordings of dances to the Internet Archive.
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Looks like I forgot to post here, but I wrote up another retrospective post for my DJ gig at a local #ContraDance a week ago:
https://blog.samwhited.com/2026/01/2026-01-13-trolley-barn-contra-post-mortem/
Probably not of much interest to anyone who's not a #DJ (and probably not even then), but it helps me to learn and do better to write about it afterwards, so here it is just in case!
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Best contradance bassoonist I've ever heard!
#contradance #contradancing #folkDance #folkDancing #Syracuse #SyracuseNY
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I’ll be calling contra dances along the east coast this month! Catch me in one of these cities.
Full details at https://chromamine.com/dance/
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Excellent contradance tonight near Syracuse, part of the Phylla Mae Fall Festival. Not a big event but great music, calling, and dancing. This year's featured caller is Michael Karcher with music by Stove Dragon and Raven & Goose. Continues all day tomorrow with English country dancing and more contra.
https://syracusecountrydancers.org/special-events/phylla-mae-fall-fest/
#Syracuse #SyracuseNY #contradance #contradancing #EnglishCountryDance #EnglishCountryDancing #folkDance #folkDancing
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"Falshoods programmers believe about contra dances"
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Many contra dance callers use The Caller’s Box, a phenomenal dance choreography database from Chris Page and Michael Dyck. For those of us who primarily call gender free dances, though, using it requires mental translation from gendered role terms to gender neutral ones. I’ve created a browser plugin, Caller’s Box Configurator, to fix this.
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@redbanjer nice to hear from another #ContraDance fan. My early violin training was distinctly clasical - kudos to #MDUSD public school classes and orchestras, and I thoroughly enjoy #DanceBand fiddling these days. (love your emojis!)
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It occurred to me recently that I don’t think there are any contra dances that feature a set and link figure that's popular in Scottish Country Dance. So I decided to write some!
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On my summer tour with Kingfisher the organizers of one dance told me that their group would tolerate Larks/Robins for role terms, but *preferred* Ladies/Gents. After talking it over with some other callers and dancers and weighing the factors (What will feel best for me? What will be best for the dancers? What will be good for contra dance in general?) I opted to call Larks/Robins.
https://chromamine.com/2024/07/calling-a-gendered-series-gender-free/
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I just wrapped up a weeklong summer contra dance calling tour with Kingfisher (@jefftk and Cecilia Vacanti). This was my first time on tour!
We played six dances in six days with an extra day for travel at the start and an extra two days at the end, for a total of nine days on the road. We performed at these dances:
https://chromamine.com/2024/07/summer-tour-with-kingfisher-reflections/
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Name: Rich
Pronouns: he/himDance: Binghamton Morris Men (2002–); American Travelling Morrice (2003–); formerly Bassett Street Hounds, Ribbonsteel Rapper, Thornden Morris, Salt Springs Morris, and Wild Blue Morris (all Syracuse, NY) and Flying Bark Morris (Newport News, VA). Contras and English country dances mainly in Syracuse.
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#introduction #morrisDancing #Binghamton #contraDancing
#morris #contra #morrisDance #contraDance #dance #dancing #folkDance #folkDancing #EnglishCountryDance -
In response to my most recent post about calling dances in Nantucket, Maia wrote to me:
> Harris, I have the world's stupidest bone to pick with you. Re the dance cards on your website: I don’t think “Duple Neutral” actually means anything?
Okay, I should explain myself.
#ContraDance #TradFolk #gender
https://chromamine.com/2024/05/how-should-we-notate-role-free-contra-dance-formation/
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This week I called the Nantucket's First Community Contra Dance. It was an unusual gig. The organizer is starting a contra dance community from scratch on the island. There were a small handful of experienced dancers she knew, but aside from them, the crowd was entirely new.
#ContraDance #TradFolk #Nantucket #SocialDance
https://chromamine.com/2024/05/calling-the-first-dance-in-a-community/
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For the second year in a row @jefftk invited me to call contra dances with his band Kingfisher on his porch for #Somerville Porchfest, for dancers in the street. I wrote a bit last year about some of the interesting challenges in calling at this particular event and they were the same this year.
#ContraDance #TradFolk #music #dance
https://chromamine.com/2024/05/calling-contras-at-porchfest-2024/
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Called to a small but devoted crowd in Concord last night and as a rare treat it was spacious enough and with experienced enough dancers for me to call this beautiful dance composition by Erik Hoffman, titled “There is no Way to Peace; Peace is the Way” (after an A.J. Muste quote).
I’m typically not a star promenade and butterfly whirl fan, but for this dance I make an exception.