Contra in The Couve

01/26/2025

01/11/2025

01/09/2025

01/09/2025

01/06/2025

06/07/2024

Hillsboro contra dance is starting up again, starting on June 14. Here are the details:

01/14/2023

Looking for a dancing fix with live music? Come Monday (1/16) to the Knut Dance and help us mark the end of the Christmas season in Scandinavian style.

11/07/2022

Hey folks, please remember to VOTE on or before Tuesday, Nov. 8!

09/03/2022

Folks, we have made the sad decision to say "Farewell" to our Contra in the Couve! dance series. The Covid pandemic shutdown and the closure of the Hazel Dell Grange have created a situation in which the path forward looked increasingly difficult and uncertain. Here's our announcement, published in the Sept./Oct. edition of the PCDC Footnotes newsletter.

Contra in the Couve! Bids Farewell
by Carl Thor
Organizers for the 2nd Friday contra dance in Vancouver have come to the conclusion that it is not feasible at this time to try to restart the dance series. We only missed reaching our 10 year anniversary because of the Covid pandemic, but the loss of our dance hall, a 2.5 year shutdown, the need for Covid protocols, potential liability issues, a shortage of organizer energy, and other uncertainties, have combined to drive our decision to let it go.

We thank the many dancers, callers, and musicians who supported us and helped keep Contra in the Couve! humming for so long. We also thank the many volunteers who took on the tasks, large and small, necessary to support an ongoing dance. And we thank the Hazel Dell Grange for providing such an ideal space in which to dance. Finally, special thanks to the late David Kaynor, our very strong supporter and caller for our December anniversary dance every year until he was no longer able in 2019.

We did a good thing and had a lot of fun together here in "the Couve!" Who knows? There may one day be contra dancing again in Vancouver. But for now, at least, we say "Farewell! We'll see you on another dance floor."