Dan Klarmann's Dance Page

I've been contra dancing since 1989, and was a founder of FolkFire, the Saint Louis and regional folk and ethnic newsletter. The best way to explain contradance is to show you, so I've been taking pictures and videos for years. I've also written a few articles.

Some videos of mine:

Sep 6, 2009 Union Station Flash Dance On the Sunday afternoon of the High Tea and Whiskey Dance Weekend in Saint Louis, we held a Flash Dance at Union Station.

Tower Grove Park Movie Night FlashDance 2009 The Childgrove Country Dancers organized a Flash Dance before an outdoor movie was shown by the Pool Pavilion in Tower Grove Park. Short video with some dancing, and all the music as captured by my little digital camera.

August 2009 MoBot Flash Dance After the Missouri Botanical Gardens close to the public on a hot August evening, the Childgrove Country Dancers invade (with permission) and mosey among the many garden zones to waltz and contradance, ending with a wet waltz as the sun sets.

Saturday at the Kimmswick Contradance Weekend 2009 Drove out to Camp Sherwood Forest in Cuivre River State Park in Troy, MO for the middle day of Childgrove Country Dancers' Kimmswick Dance Weekend. My shirt-pocket camera took video of many jam sessions and workshops through the afternoon, and folk dancing into the night.

See more of my videos on my YouTube channel (adk1961)

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

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.

See some shots from a contradance mixer at the Schlafly Taproom 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 dancepic and Angel

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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