Forever Learning Institute

Contra dance, popular in the British Isles and in America since colonial times, might remind you of the dancing you see in movies based on Jane Austen novels -- or of the hoedowns in westerns. Couples progress through the dance in long parallel lines doing figures such as allemande, dosido, circle, star, promenade, and swing. We will also learn some circle dances using these figures. We will learn dances from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Canada and America, dating from the 1700s through the 1900s. Roy Somerville assisting.