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| A 'New England' Contra Dance club led by John & Hilary Turner. |
| Caller - John Turner |
Last updated 4/1/2020
Chilworth Contras - Dates for your Diary
| 2020 | |||
| Jan 30th | Feb 13th | Mar 12th | |
| Apr 9th | May 14th | June 11th | |
| Oct 8th | Nov 12th | Dec 10th |
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Chilworth Contra Summary
What is Contra Dancing? you ask.
Try this,
At Chilworth we dance to CDs, with occasional visits from the English Contra Dance Band.
Try this video too,
The music is great, very lively and really gives you that drive which is so important for
Contra Dancing in particular.
Here's another viewpoint well worth reading.
We dance New England Contras & Squares, with lots of swinging! and occasionally some 'Running Set' too. We welcome everyone, but don't come to rest; it's an exhausting evening!
To give you a flavour of this, it's purposeful, urgent, vital, energetic, well phrased, strongly connected, challenging, sociable and great fun!
We change partners almost every dance, helping newcomers to be quickly assimilated, as well as creating a friendly and sociable environment.
Ladies invite the men to dance as well as vice versa.
Each dance can run for 8 to 10 times through , so don't come to rest!
If you have any further questions please email us
Here are a few more articles on Contra Dancing that I hope you find helpful:
What is Contra Dance?
So why not come and join us?
As well as dancers local to the Southampton area, we have occasional visitors
from Alton (27miles), Basingstoke (28m),
Chichester (34m), & Shillingstone nr Blandford (48 miles)!
