contradance

How To Use contradance In A Sentence

• Extemporaneous comedies were no longer played in the great cities, and Odo listened with surprise to the swift thrust and parry, the inexhaustible flow of jest and repartee, the readiness with which the comedians caught up each other's leads, like dancers whirling without a false step through the mazes of some rapid contradance. The Valley of Decision
• Many of these songs are meant to be played at dances or parties, where you could reasonably expect people to be in the middle of a contradance; like today's trance and electronic musics, most fiddle tunes have few or no lyrics, and a catchy melody that self perpetuates. Phawker
• A free beginners’ orientation session is offered at 7:30 pm for all Friday and Saturday contradances and for the Wednesday English dances.
• People have been organizing contradances in Winston-Salem since the early 1980s.
• She began playing contradances while in high school, went on to Eastman School of Music, and now performs and teaches fiddle and violin in the Rochester area.
• Folk Arts Society of Greenville and the ECU Folk and Country Dancers will hold a contradance from 7: 30-10 p.m. today at the Greenville Masonic Temple, 1104 S. Charles St. Bill and Libby Hicks will provide music and Ben Allbrandt will be the caller. The Daily Reflector
• We can provide sound for contradances that we play at, as well as other functions… and we can also hire ourselves out to do sound for other people.
• When I moved to California in 1981, I found that the New England dancing I enjoyed was not being called so in San Francisco - the contradances were ‘California style’.
• Music at a contradance is both live and lively, and is provided by a small band which typically has one or two fiddles, a piano, and maybe a guitar, flute, tin whistle, or hammered dulcimer.
• Now living in Ithaca, NY, Kathy plays for contradances and English country dances and also performs at concerts, festivals and coffeehouses.