DANCES FOR ALL OCCASIONS


Favorite Contra Dances

Dance & Choreographer

Song & Artist

About Leavin' "U" - Lynne Flanders

Honky Tonk U - Toby Keith
Songs About Me - Trace Adkins

Close Encounters - Bill Bader

Move It On Over - Hank William Jr
No News - Lonestar

Fire Walkin' - Gloria Johnson

Fire and Smoke - Earle Thomas Conley

Foot Boogie - Ryan Dobry

Baby Likes to Rock It - The Tractors

L & L Bump - Shirley McCoy Babcock

Poor Boy Shuffle - The Tractors
Love Gets Me Everytime - Shania Twain

Lost In the Shuffle - Peter Metelnick

Lost In the Shuffle - Michael Peterson
Lucky Me, Lucky You - Leroy Parnell

My, My, My, My, My Boogie Shoes - Ron Kline

Boogie Shoes - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Wall To Wall - Vance Kelly

Northside Cha Cha - W.W. Dancers (Joe Weston)

Third Rate Romance - Sammy Kershaw
You Should Have Been True - The Mavericks

People - "SanDee" Skelton

Deep River Blues - Groovegrass Boys
Migra - Santana

Rednex Stomp - Chris Kumre

Cotton Eyed Joe - Rednex

Southside Shuffle - Donna Aiken

South's Gonna Do It Again - Charlie Daniels
455 Rocket - Kathy Mattea

Strut 'n Vines - Judy McDonald

Kind of Like It's Love - Jason McCoy

Train Wreck - Kathy Hunyadi

Party Train - The Gap Band

Wild Wild West Boogie - Chris Hookie

Wild Wild West - The Escape Club

Some have adapted these dances to contra

 

B&S Boogie - Dave Rusch

If It Don't Take Two - Shania Twain
That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly

Cruisin' - Neil Hale  (fun contra)

 

Dipstick - Judy McDonald (try it contra)

Appropriate Dipstick - Natalie MacMaster

Swamp Thang – Max Perry (looks great contra)

Swamp Thing - The Grid

Swingin' Thing - Jo & Rita Thompson

 

The Curtsy Cross - Jim Vivis

You'd Better Think Twice - Vince Gill

Waltz Across Texas - Lois & John Nielson

Any slow to moderate waltz

Why Ma - Claire Gent

Tell Me Ma - Sham Rock

Wrong Way - Barry Amato

Don't Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders

Some do these dances as circle dances

 

Picnic Polka

 

Rita's Waltz