How To Use Contradance In A Sentence
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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
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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
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A free beginners’ orientation session is offered at 7:30 pm for all Friday and Saturday contradances and for the Wednesday English dances.
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People have been organizing contradances in Winston-Salem since the early 1980s.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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’.
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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.
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Now living in Ithaca, NY, Kathy plays for contradances and English country dances and also performs at concerts, festivals and coffeehouses.
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Their first piece was a sprightly Mozart contradance-fast, but not too fast, with a French horn solo in the middle that Lisa choked on half the time, even in yesterday's dress rehearsal.
Beyond World's End
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This versatile group is equally at home playing for concerts, contradances, or Cajun dances.
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These four contradances were written in Salzburg in January of 1780 for Count Johann Rudolf Czernin.
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Dance-music was pouring from the arched recesses above the doorways, and chandeliers of coloured Murano glass diffused a soft brightness over the pilasters of the stuccoed walls, and the floor of inlaid marbles on which couples were rapidly forming for the contradance.
The Valley of Decision
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The etiquette at contradances is that for every dance people generally change partners and dance with someone else, even if you do come with a partner.
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All the ricks in the yard were bobbing about, as if amusing themselves with a slow contradance; but they were as yet kept in by the barn, and a huge old hedge of hawthorn.
Sir Gibbie
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Father and daughter John Wobus and Megan Wobus Beller have been playing contradances together for more than a decade.
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They perform frequently at weddings, coffeehouses, parties, and cafés throughout central New York, and for contradances across the country.
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As noted, bands also find a home at Falcon Ridge, and the lineup this weekend features the ever-popular Cold Spring combo Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams; the bluegrass stylings of Chester River Runoff; groove-based contradance combo, The Clayfoot
Timesunion.com: Local Breaking News
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We were then at the end of the contradance; the last figure separated me a moment from my cousin; when I led her back to the
Mysteries of Paris, V3
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Note: The First Saturday contradance at Peterborough Townhouse will not be held in August but will resume in September.
New Hampshire Public Radio
