Contra Dance Links
Media Coverage
- 5C Contra Community Dance Club Combines Tradition and Fun (An article in The Student Life that profiles our club)
- Contradance: Outside the Claremont Bubble (A blog post by April Xiaoyi Xu PO '18 for Voices, the Pomona College Student Blog, about her experience discovering contra dancing in college)
- Youth Flock To Contra Dancing (A short segment on NPR's All Things Considered about millennials who go contra dancing)
- Having a Ball: Young New Yorkers Revive Old Dance Craze (An article in the Wall Street Journal about contra dancing)
Other Interesting Stuff
- Hands Four (An essay introducing contra dancing and its joys)
- Together in Time (Shortened Version) (A video on the history of contra dancing)
- Contra Dances, Matrices, and Groups (A mathematical analysis of contra dancing)
- Dr. Bob's Random Contra Dance Generator (A fun tool to make your own contras)
- The CDSS Contra Dance Map (A semi-comprehensive listing of active contra dance series around the world)
For More Reading
- Contra Dance Essays (A massive collection of essays about contra dancing; some links may be dead, but most of those can be accessed via archive.org)