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Definition of contradance in English: contradancenounˈkɒntrədɑːnsˈkäntrəˌdans A country dance in which the couples form lines facing each other. 对舞,对面舞(一种由一对对舞伴面对面排成两行的乡村舞蹈) Example sentencesExamples - We can provide sound for contradances that we play at, as well as other functions… and we can also hire ourselves out to do sound for other people.
- This versatile group is equally at home playing for concerts, contradances, or Cajun dances.
- They perform frequently at weddings, coffeehouses, parties, and cafés throughout central New York, and for contradances across the country.
- The etiquette at contradances is that for every dance people generally change partners and dance with someone else, even if you do come with a partner.
- People have been organizing contradances in Winston-Salem since the early 1980s.
- When I moved to California in 1981, I found that the New England dancing I enjoyed was not being called so in San Francisco - the contradances were ‘California style’.
- These four contradances were written in Salzburg in January of 1780 for Count Johann Rudolf Czernin.
- Father and daughter John Wobus and Megan Wobus Beller have been playing contradances together for more than a decade.
- She began playing contradances while in high school, went on to Eastman School of Music, and now performs and teaches fiddle and violin in the Rochester area.
- Now living in Ithaca, NY, Kathy plays for contradances and English country dances and also performs at concerts, festivals and coffeehouses.
- Music at a contradance is both live and lively, and is provided by a small band which typically has one or two fiddles, a piano, and maybe a guitar, flute, tin whistle, or hammered dulcimer.
- A free beginners’ orientation session is offered at 7:30 pm for all Friday and Saturday contradances and for the Wednesday English dances.
OriginEarly 19th century: variant of contredanse. Definition of contradance in US English: contradancenounˈkäntrəˌdans A country dance in which the couples form lines facing each other. 对舞,对面舞(一种由一对对舞伴面对面排成两行的乡村舞蹈) Example sentencesExamples - She began playing contradances while in high school, went on to Eastman School of Music, and now performs and teaches fiddle and violin in the Rochester area.
- Father and daughter John Wobus and Megan Wobus Beller have been playing contradances together for more than a decade.
- This versatile group is equally at home playing for concerts, contradances, or Cajun dances.
- They perform frequently at weddings, coffeehouses, parties, and cafés throughout central New York, and for contradances across the country.
- Now living in Ithaca, NY, Kathy plays for contradances and English country dances and also performs at concerts, festivals and coffeehouses.
- We can provide sound for contradances that we play at, as well as other functions… and we can also hire ourselves out to do sound for other people.
- People have been organizing contradances in Winston-Salem since the early 1980s.
- A free beginners’ orientation session is offered at 7:30 pm for all Friday and Saturday contradances and for the Wednesday English dances.
- The etiquette at contradances is that for every dance people generally change partners and dance with someone else, even if you do come with a partner.
- These four contradances were written in Salzburg in January of 1780 for Count Johann Rudolf Czernin.
- Music at a contradance is both live and lively, and is provided by a small band which typically has one or two fiddles, a piano, and maybe a guitar, flute, tin whistle, or hammered dulcimer.
- When I moved to California in 1981, I found that the New England dancing I enjoyed was not being called so in San Francisco - the contradances were ‘California style’.
OriginEarly 19th century: variant of contredanse. |