Websites We Like To Visit

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Other contra dances in the Princeton, NJ area:

• Mt. Airy Thursdays (Philadelphia, PA)

• Mt. Airy Third Saturday (Philadelphia, PA)

• Swingin' Tern (1st & 3rd Saturdays in East Hanover, NJ)

• Valley Contra Dancers (2nd & 4th Saturdays in Bethlehem, PA)

• CD_NY (New York City)

• Brooklyn Contra (New York, NY)

• Village Contra (New York, NY)

• CONTRACOPIA Thanksgiving Saturday (Philadelphia, PA)

 

Other English and Waltz dances in the Princeton, NJ area:

• LCD First Friday English (near Princeton, NJ - English country dancing)

• Germantown Country Dancers (GCD) (Wednesdays and 1st Saturdays - English Country Dances in Philadelphia)

• CD_NY (New York City)

• North Jersey English Country Dancers (2nd & 4th Sundays in Ridgewood, NJ)  

• Mostly Waltz (south NJ/Philadelphia area)

 

Related music/dance links:

• PBS Special on Contra Dancing

• PBS Special on Contra Dance History

• Princeton Folk Dance

• Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS) - Buffalo Gap and Pinewoods music camps

• Fiddle and Dance at Ashokan, NY - three summer camps for musicians and dancers (Northern, Southern, Western)

• Places to dance flyer (by Folk Dance Council of Delaware Valley)

• The Dance Gypsy Find dancing whereever you go!

• Judi Rivkin's English Dance Site with "how-to" animations! (requires some bandwidth)

• Kiran Wagle's contra dance page

• The Folk Project - Main Page

• Central Jersey Dance Society

• Princeton Swing Club

 

Contra and English dances within driving range of Princeton (but hours away):

• Baltimore Folk Music Society (Mondays English Country Dance in Baltimore)

• Brattleboro Dawn Dances (Brattleboro, VT)

• Contradancers.com (Washington, D.C. area + Victoria's Revenge + other weekends)

• Glen Echo Park (Washington, D.C.)

• Western Massachussetts (Greenfield, MA)

• Round Hill Country Dancers (Greenwich, CT)

 

Festivals:

• New England Folk Festival - in April near Boston, MA

 

Dance and Music Resources and Associations

• Charlie Seelig’s Contradance Links

• Country Dance and Song Society

• Dwayne Johnson's Contra Corners Map

• Greg Scragg's The Dance Gypsy

• New England Folk Festival Association

• NEFFA Linkfest - English dances in other cities

• Ted Crane's DanceDB

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Resources that occupied us during Covid lockdown

• Tony Parkes' "Diversity in Square Dancing" presentation

• Phil Jamison's book discussion, “Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance"

• David Millstone's "Country Dance in Modern Times: Squares, ECD & Contras in Post WWII America" presentation

• Karen Kevra's "Muse Mentors" podcast episode about Tony Barrand, in which our own Sue Dupre is featured

• CDSS' online events calendar