Contradance:
or How to stay in shape without really trying.

See some shots from a local contradance mixer in November of 2003

Here are a few thumbnailed pictures which were taken at one of the weekly local St. Louis dances put on by the Childgrove Country Dancers. These were taken to be used for an article in the Alpine Engineered Products corporate newsletter just before I found out I was to be let go in a re-org (October, 2000).

A couple of snapshots from that series accidently turned out to reveal the interesting contrast of my dance personalities.

I call them Devil and Angel

I've been dancing since 1989, and am a founder of FolkFire, the Saint Louis and regional folk and ethnic newsletter.

Sugar Hill Pictures

69 thumbnailed snapshots from Sugar Hill 23, 2001
86 thumbnailed snapshots from Sugar Hill 24, 2002
34 thumbnailed snapshots from Sugar Hill 25, 2003
55 thumbnailed snapshots with captions from Sugar Hill 26, 2004
43 thumbnailed snapshots with captions from Sugar Hill 27, 2005
143 thumbnailed snapshots with captions from Sugar Hill 29, 2007
151 thumbnailed snapshots with captions from Sugar Hill 30, 2008

August 2007 Missouri Botanical Gardens Flash Dance Pictures from a hot summer evening. Wet waltzing.
August 2008 Missouri Botanical Gardens Flash Dance Pictures from another summer evening. Hatchling callers and wet waltzing.

See some snapshots I took of Morris Dance, English Country Dance, a bagpiper, and a Shakespeare skit at the 2002 Missouri Botanical Gardens English Festival.

Here are some articles we've written about contradance. Most were published first in Folkfire, and some were reprinted in the CDSS journal:

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