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It's Contradance enthusiasts are often asked, "What is contradance?" The question draws a [http://www.sbcds.org/contradance/whatis/ gammut of answers], and even after years of dancing it remains hard to do justice respond well to contradance in words. It's an American folk not a square dance born during , though many of the colonial era from figures are the more formal courtship dances best known today from Jane Austen moviessame as in square. Like LatinIt's not a line dance, these old English Country Dances persistthough a ''set'' consists of two lines. It ''is'' an intricate, are pleasantmoving knot of dancers, but they are in which you and a dead languagepartner progress down the dance hall and back again, dancing a series of ''figures'' with an emphasis each couple you encounter on doing traditional dances in an oldthe way. It has been called, formal manner"A roller coaster ride we make for ourselves. By contrast " At its best, a contradanceflows perfectly, seeming to lift you into the young right spot. At its worst, it is a challenge of figuring out where you and your partner need to be, and vigorous offspring of English Countrygetting there in time with the music -- but every old dancer has been there, and occasionally returns there. by contrastEither way, the dance is still very much alive energetic, social, and evolvingfun.