Southern Nevada Old Time Country Dancers
 
Mark your calendar for all our Contra Dances through June 2012

Saturdays
January 7, 21
February 4, 25
March 3,  24
Fri Only-April 13
May 26
June 2, 23

All our Contra nights have live music!
Wear a Yellow Ribbon, or Bandana to our upcoming Saturday Contra Nite on May 26th!!!

Our evening's dancing will have live music and will have our 'home-grown' contra callers.
It was love at 1st Contra
Waymen & Arlene joined us to celebrate their 5th year of marriage, having first met in 2006 at our Contra group, as the last waltz was played. Congratulations! We enjoyed your smiling faces all night long.
Contra can change lives in so many wonderful ways.
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New Contra Name Tags
Want to be "spurred" along as you dance? We have new clip-on name tags for all SNOCD members. If you notice any name tag error, or as a member, you are missing a name tag, please let our cashier know.

Also, be sure to return your name tag at the end of the evening, as we will occasionally change the tags to fit one of our themes!

Contra Dance


How can we best describe Contra here? Fun dances, accomplished & original callers, skillful, playful band, yummy break-time food, real nice sprung-wood dance floor, inexpensive & memorable evening of dance and after-dance gatherings of dancers and band members.
we can't forget that dancing in the company of real nice friends and acquaintances always makes for a real pleasurable evening. These are just a few of the many reasons why we look forward to those Contra dance evenings that we typically have twice monthly.

If you are new to Las Vegas Country Dancing, we'd like to welcome you to one of our Contra dance evenings. No reservations or special clothing are required; we have plenty of experienced dancers who will gladly invite you to dance with them even if you don't know what "allemande", "courtesy turn", or "Do-Si-Do like a pumpkin"-which was one of those "new" steps tried this October by one of our fairly new, accomplished and most original caller!

The cost for an evening of Contra dance is $10.00 for general admission, or $5.00 for Southern Nevada Old-Time Contra Dancers, active Military personnel and students.

We offer a beginner's dance lesson from 6:30-7:00pm, walking you through frequently-appearing Contra dance figures. Then the real fun begins, with dancing 'til 10pm, with a mid-evening break. All dances are called and we do have walk-throughs, to experience the dance before our bands launch (or is it charge off?) with a tune. Some of us think that the music speeds up, if we don't tip the band. We'll leave it to your guess why this sometimes happens.

Once more, for newcomers, we give you a ticket to a free future Contra dance. What's not to like about this offer?
From the Mail Bag:
What Should I Wear to Contra in 2012?

Here's some theme's we have for dances in the year ahead, to help you along....Note some of our dance nights have no theme-just come in comfortable dancing attire!

Jan 7th - Black & White: We're Celebrating our New Year

Feb 4th - Valentine Red

March 24 - (Belated) Green for St Patrick's Day

Special Fri 13th Ghoulishly Black & Red!

May 26 - Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Wear a Yellow Bandana, Bow &  make John Wayne Proud!

June 2 - Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Denim can't go wrong tonight

June 23 - Anything Goes
Steam Punk, Hot Funk, Old Junk
or Whatever the eclectic mix came out the bowels of your closet, Wear It!
Some of us were redy to dance!
Just some of our Green-horn (oops, experienced) dancers!
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Above are photos from a recent Contra evening, where we enjoyed a mixer in-the-round.
Above are Dave Carroll (left) and Curt Jensen (right) of the Sagebrush Stringband, playing for us. The two-when they're not strumming for us at Contra also are playing with the Las Vegas Mandoliers
Above, members of 112 and Then Some back in '10 warm up for a hot evening of country melodies.