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Usually the biggest dance of the year, and the one most adorned with traditions, the Halloween Contradance has been a special dance since at least 2000. Attendees wear and dance in costume. The hall is decked out for the season, recently with colored streamers and balloons, jack-o'-lanterns, gourds, and corn stalks.

*'''2001,''' Bill Sacks dropped fake paper money from the ceiling for dancers to scramble for, one of which was marked as a "winner", and traded in for a prize. Heather Brutz '02 performed a dance on stilts for the crowd.

*'''2003,''' Bill Sacks's old purple plastic sandbox was cleaned out after its long repose near the [[Forest Garden]] compost pile and filled with water for the first intermission bobbing for apples. This was followed by the first intermission mop the floor after bobbing so we don't break our necks.

*'''2004''''s intermission featured [[Halloween Contradance intermission 2004|an elaborate contest]], in which ten [[Odd Quad]]ders competed against ten non-Odds (including some Odds who joined them to even things up) competed in three apple events.

After the Halloween Dance, all dancers and friends are invited to sleep over at the [[Outing Club cabin]], where the spend the night singing largely from the folky songbook ''Rise Up Singing.''