Port Angeles Contra Dance

At the Black Diamond Community Hall

2025 Contra Dance
Black Diamond Schedule

1/4/2025
The Contraband
Lindsey Dono calling

2/8/2025
Chicken Feathers
Joe Michaels calling

3/8/2025
Na Mara
Caller TBA

4/12/2025
The Contraband
Eric Curl calling

5/10/2025
The Canote Brothers
Laura Me Smith calling

6/14/2025
Band and Caller TBA

Dances held at

Black Diamond
Community Hall

1942 Black Diamond Rd.,
Port Angeles, WA 98363

2nd Saturday of every month

Free Lesson begins at 7pm,
Dance 7:30-10:30pm

Sliding Scale Admission
Adults $10-20
Under 18 1/2 price

Upcoming Events

Contra Dance, June 4, 2016

Michael Karcher

calls to the music of

Power House

The last dance of the year will go out with a bang! Michael Karcher, of Seattle, joins us again to keep us in time with Power House. Power House – led by young Kate Powers – will make you want to dance all night.

Michael has been having the time of his life calling around the Pacific Northwest over the last few years – including previous practice calling in Port Angeles. When he isn’t calling, he’s pursuing a PhD in statistics at the University of Washington and dancing in and around Seattle.

This is the last dance until late August!

There is a workshop at 7:30pm. The dances begin at 8:00. All other dance details are on the “About Our Dance” page on this website.

May Dances continued

The Rainforest Council for the Arts is sponsoring a Contra Dance on Friday, May 6th, at the Rainforest Art Center in Forks. Dance lessons will be offered at 7PM, and the dance starts at 7:30PM. Desserts will be available. Admission is a suggested $6.00 donation.This is an unusual, and excellent, opportunity to expand our local dances beyond Port Angeles/Sequim.

Northwest Folklife provides four straight days of contra on Memorial Weekend (May 27-30), with hundreds of people on the dance floor at the same time. Even better, it’s free! Remember to act soon to find a place to stay in Seattle; it’s a busy weekend.

A reminder that we have our own dance at Black Diamond this weekend. See you there! https://www.facebook.com/events/1709867702609973/

May 7 Dance

Sonya Kaufman

with

Ruthie Dornfeld and Forrest Gibson

Sonya Kaufman is an energetic young caller who has been contra dancing for as long as she can remember. She started calling for contra dances in college, and has been calling regularly for dances throughout the Northwest during the past year.
Her energy, grace, and warmth shine through in all that she does, and her clear directions will guide you through the trickiest of dances. Sonya is moving to Port Angeles at the end of April to work as a wildland firefighter for Olympic National Park, and is excited to spend the summer in this beautiful place.

We welcome back Ruthie and Forrest, who keep us going with their lively music.

From Seattle, fiddler Ruthie Dornfeld and guitarist Forrest Gibson merge their New England and Wild West backgrounds to create a dynamic musical team. Dornfeld, as a 15 year resident of Boston, was a mainstay of the thriving contra dance scene there; meanwhile Gibson was playing blues guitar in a cabin in the woods in the wilds of Alaska. They met after both ended up moving to Seattle; musical sparks flew and the result is the no holds barred, full volt style you’ll hear at the Contra Dance.

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There is a workshop at 7:30pm. The dance begins at 8:00. All other dance details are on the “About Our Dance” page on this website.