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.

Click to see 69 thumbnailed snapshots from Sugar Hill 2001, an Indiana dance weekend
Click to see 86 thumbnailed snapshots from Sugar Hill 2002
Click to see 34 thumbnailed snapshots from Sugar Hill 2003
Click to see 55 thumbnailed snapshots with captions from Sugar Hill 2004
Click to see 43 thumbnailed snapshots with captions from Sugar Hill 2005
Click to see 143 thumbnailed snapshots with captions from Sugar Hill 2007

August 2007 Missouri Botanical Gardens Flash Dance Pictures from a hot summer evening. 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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