Found a very nice website today: Community Dance, dealing with one-night-stand types of dances, from a traditional/contra point of view.

This is what the author, Neal Rhodes, in a thread on usenet, said about its genesis:

A while back I was looking for a resource which I could provide to Boy Scout leaders, Girl Scout leaders, school music teachers, church group leaders, etc. It would be intended to give them a introduction to dance (either contra, square, etc) and would encourage them to try to do a community dance. I was wanting to give them an idea of what it looked like, and sounded like, and felt like. I was trying to avoid the “blank stare of cows looking at a passing train” look whenever I tried to suggest such a thing.

I didn’t see any such resource, so I wrote one, and I would be interested in anyone’s comments.