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Contra Borealis Dancers Homepage

Fairbanks, Alaska

This is why contradancing works in Fairbanks!

Latest Happenings...

Ta-Dah!   We are proud to announce Hillbillies from Mars with caller Beth Molaro for Dance Camp North 2008, on Labor day weekend

Dance Camp North 2008 (PDF format)Brochure , Registration , Camp COPE information, T-shirt design, and poster are now online. 

Here is a map to Lost lake to help you find your way.

We are in need of officers to serve on the board of directors.  If you would like to support the Contra Borealis dance organization, please get in touch with any of the officers listed further down on this web page.


A short hike from our dance camp is the view of the Tanana River from Mitchell Point - photo Gary Newman - gary(at)alaskafolkmusic.org

Contra Borealis Schedule - Summer 2008 Dances
Fri, July 18th Pioneer Park Contras Joe Herrmann guest band Lynn Basham
Sat, August 16th Pioneer Park Contras Celtic Confusion Barbara Braley
*Fri, August 29th Pioneer Park Contras HillBillies from Mars Beth Molaro

* This is a special dance with Dance Camp guest artists.  Price for this dance is $10.00 for each person--members, students, and non-members alike.

 

 

  The adult non-member price is  $8 for an evening's dance and the student non-member rate is $5. The

 adult member price is $5 and the student member price is $3. Adult membership is $15/year and student membership is at $10/year. As an extra bonus  new and renewing members will get free admission to the dance they become members.

 

Samples of some of the dances called.

Or try Dr. Bob's Random Contradance Generator. Bring a contradance to the dance and ask the caller to call it!

Bands and Callers

Contraborealis Dancers are fortunate to have live callers and bands for dances
 
You can read more about the local bands here

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Our Dance Camp North coordinator is Cynthia Steiner--steinercynthia(at)yahoo.com 479-6596

Dance Camp North 2007  Labor Day weekend Sept 1-3, 2007 - at Lost Lake with guest artists Rex Blazer and Lift Ticket  with Woody Lane calling.

Dance Camp North 2005 Labor Day weekend Sept 3-5, 2005 - at Lost Lake with Moving Violations with Kathy Anderson calling

Dance Camp North 2004 - Labor Day weekend Sept. 4-6, 2004 - at Lost Lake - With the Clayfoot Strutters and caller Ron Buchanan. Remaining lost and found items are still at the dance hall - there were quite a few.

Dance Camp North 2003 - Labor Day weekend Aug. 30 - Sept. 1, 2003 - at Lost Lake - the guest band was Wild Asparagus and caller George Marshall.

Dance Camp North 2002 - Labor Day weekend - Aug. 31 - Sept. 2, 2002 - The band for DCN 2002 was the infamous Hillbillies from Mars with upandcoming enthusiastic caller Joseph Pimentel of Columbus, Ohio. Joseph came with more glowing references than Benjamin Franklin, so the expected good time came to fruition.

Dance Camp North 2001 - Aug. 24-26, 2001 - The band for DCN 01 in August was the hot KGB from the Seattle area, with Portland caller Erik Weberg (or try this link) for a faster link. It was a mostly clear, warm and sunny camp - everyone seemed to have a great time.

Here is a list of all previous dance camps and special guests.

More Stuff

  • Inter-generational contradance with Celtic Confusion, caller Lynn Basham even gets to dance with teen Liz Parr. More and more of late, our group has had lots of enthusiastic teens join in. Photo by Gary Newman

    • Contra Borealis Membership

    Membership in the Contra Borealis Dancers comes with discounted entry to dances, puts you on the mailing list for receiving the Contradictions - our printed newsletter of contra-information about happenings, interesting articles, plus emailed events of note. All it takes is an annual $15 per member / $10 student being mailed to Box 84084, Fairbanks, Alaska 99708. Alternately, you can sign up at any Contra Borealis event. If you want to find out more about the organization to see if we are trustworthy, you can check out our Official By-laws for Contra Borealis, which were affirmed at the 1998 Annual Meeting.

     

    Contra Borealis Dancers Board of Directors

     

    Current Officer vacancies:

    Special Events Coordinator

    Board meetings have usually held every second Tues., Wed., or Thurs. at the Alaskaland Dance Hall or sometimes the Wood Center cafeteria at 5:30 pm, except during the summer. All members are welcome, but verify time and place first by contacting a board member above. There have been times when days and places change. You can see the latest board meeting minutes here.

    Archived  minutes here.

    The mailing address is: Box 84084, Fairbanks, Alaska 99708.

    In case you need to know, the phone number at the Alaskaland Dance Hall is 452-5699.

    Webmaster's Choice Links

    Our affiliation with folk dancing in Fairbanks is with the Northern Lights Council of Dancers. They have a nifty calendar of all dance events at dancealaska.org

    The Fairbanks Ballroom Dance Club reciprocal link.

    We are members of the umbrella contrandace organization Country Dance and Song Society aka CDSS.

    Contradance Connection Alaska Folk Music Homepage

    If there are any problems with this page,  please contact the webmaster.

    Last updated 5/23/2008