Gainesville Old-Time Dance Society

Eric Harris will be calling the dances to the music of "the Briarpickers", 4pm, October 6 at the Thelma Boltin Center, 516 NE 2nd Ave. Introductory workshop for beginning dancers starts at 3:30pm and is highly recommended! Experienced dancers, be there early to partner with those newcomers and help them have the time of their lives!

Rocking Contra into the 22nd Century and beyond, Contraforce merges music we know and love with psychedelia, surf rock, and metal to expand your mind and stretch your dance mojo. Embrace the future, throw open your perceptions and dare yourself to swim in the constancy of change.

Keeping faith at the mike, Emily Abel, a bicyclist and avid volunteer from Winston-Salem, NC, "is very excited to call a dance for YOU!"

Can mathematicians count and call contra dances at the same time? Come find out Sunday June 29 when Jonathan King guides us down the rabbit hole through choice contra-ptions of contra Wonderland.

Dances and figures from, or beyond, your wildest imagination may appear on the dance floor before you have a chance to cry 'help'! Come, stretch your dancing skills--and your mind--in the company of other daring dancers!

Playing for our dance will be a local favorite The Yazoo Kickstarts with Bill Paine, Mike Stapleton, Marietta Massey and David Massey.

Gainesville's own JoLaine Jones-Pokorney will be calling the dances to the music of "Kumquats at Large", 4pm, November 3 at the Thelma Boltin Center, 516 NE 2nd Ave. Introductory workshop for beginning dancers starts at 3:30pm and is highly recommended! Experienced dancers, be there early to partner with those newcomers and help them have the time of their lives!