Contra Dances

Written by friends, family, and me

• Trip to IHOP
• Fat Bear's Reel
• Good Morning Mr. Sanders
• Smooth like Buttah
• La BubbleSort
• Junket Square
• Contra Good Tummas
• Nine Years

Other dances

• Box the Gnat Contra
• The Nice Combination
• Mary Cay's Reel
• Over the Hill and Still Chased
• Poetry in Motion
• Al's Safeway Produce
• Centrifugal Hey
• Good Friday
• Hay in the Barn
• The Zombies of Sugar Hill
• Zero Sum Game
• Thursday Night Special #1
• Levi Jackson Rag
• Rockin' Robin
• La Bastringue
• Burning the Bacon
• With Thanks to the Dean
• Money Musk
• Alligator Reel
• Baby Rose
• Delphiniums and Daisies
• Heartbeat Contra
• Ladies' Star
• Melanie's Triplet
• Maliza's Magical Mystery Motion
• Midwest Folklore
• Pedal Pushers
• The Second Time Around
• Shades of Shadrack
• 3-33-33
• Haste To The Wedding
• Strip The Willow
• Virginia Reel (Scottish Version)
• Chuck the Budgie
• Cranky Ingenuity
• Love and Kisses
• Turning in Turn
• Silver Anniversary Reel
• Basket Dance
• Broken Sixpence
• The Carousel
• Jenny Lind Polka
• Kerry Set
• Cumberland Square Eight
• Spring Fever
• Just Because
• Trip To Lambertville
• Rang Tang Contra

Family dances

• La Bastringue
• Sasha
• Galopede
• Favors the Rose
• The Low-Backed Car
• Anything Goes
• Bridge of Athelone
• The Blob Dance

Nine of these I've written out with a full set of calls for redundant volunteer calling: (odt) (pdf)

Bob Isaacs put together a set of 50 good common contra dances (doc)