EFS contra dances
EFS Contra Dances: 2nd & 4th Saturdays
Dances run regularly through the school year, Sept-June.
Beginner’s lesson: 7:30PM. Dancing: 8:00PM unless listed otherwise.
In the fall of 2012,
we will continue to dance in the Gym of the
Dunn School,
3411 Willamette Street, Eugene, OR 97405
(Google Map).
(Directions).
Please bring your own water bottle to the dances at Dunn School.
We do not have access to a convenient water fountain or sink.
No Partner or experience needed!
Families are Welcome!
Bring soft soled shoes that won’t mark the floor.
Cost: $6 for members, $8 general.
Arrive by 7:30 PM and get $1 off admission.
Students with ID get another $1 off.
Special offer for folks new to contra dancing:
When you pay the admission charge at your first dance in Eugene or Corvallis,
you will be offered a coupon for free admission to a regular dance evening,
valid in either Eugene or Corvallis.
When you redeem that coupon,
you will be offered a 50% discount coupon for your next dance
in either Eugene or Corvallis.
EFS also hosts two camp "retreat" weekends for contra dancers:
- Cascade Contras
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A full weekend for contra dance enthusiasts,
Cascade Contras takes place each April at SKY Camp
(the Springfield Kiwanas Youth camp)
on Fall Creek Reservoir.
The camp offers two full evenings of contra dancing,
four contra dance workshops with live music,
and a set of other music, dance, and calling workshops.
Our special kitchen staff prepares all meals on-site:
a snack Friday evening, breakfast, lunch, and dinner Saturday,
and Sunday breakfast and lunch.
Campers may select from shared bunk cabins,
with perhaps six campers per room,
or may bring their own tents or campers/trailers.
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Midsummer Madness
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Midsummer Madness offers a dance and sports weekend retreat for contra dancers,
families, and friends.
The event takes place in late July in odd years,
thus the appropriate title "the odd camp in odd years".
For 2013 it will take place July 26-28 at Living Waters Camp,
above the McKenzie River about 20 minutes east of Eugene.
Midsummer Madness offers three sessions of contra dancing (Fri & Sat nights and Sun am),
and scheduled and unscheduled dances,
sports, games, lessons, and events each day.
The camp has a large heated swimming pool with diving board,
as well as a resident chef who prepares all the meals.
There are cabins available or you may tent or bring a rig to sleep in.
The camp offers trails, volleyball, and fields for sports,
as well as a lodge with a stage and fine oak dance floor.
For more information, check out
the Midsummer Madness page.
EFS Contra Dance Calendar
In the fall of 2012,
we will continue to dance in the Gym of the
Dunn School,
3411 Willamette Street, Eugene, OR 97405
(Google Map).
(Directions).
Please bring your own water bottle to the dances at Dunn School.
We do not have access to a convenient water fountain or sink.
- Saturday, January 12, 2012:
Cobbler
with
Erik Weberg
- Saturday, January 26:
The Barnstormers
with
Sue Baker
- Saturday, February 9:
Blue Heron
with
Woody Lane
- Saturday, February 23:
The Lanny Martin Revue
with
William Watson
- Friday, March 8:
Betsy Branch,
Bill Tomczak,
&
Terry Wergeland
with
Susan Petrick
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- Saturday, March 9:
NO DANCE!
- Saturday, March 23:
The Euphemists
with
Woody Lane
- Saturday, April 13:
NO DANCE — Register for
Cascade Contras instead.
- Sunday, April 14:
Special dance
with
The Sevens
and
Steve Zakon-Anderson
- Saturday, April 27:
The Nettles
with
Lindsey Dono
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The Nettles return to Eugene to play their folkadelic booty-shaking contra dance music with Laura Brophy on fiddle, Kevin Johnsrude on guitar, Michael Proctor on bass and Brian Bucolo on drums. Bring your water bottle, it's going to get hot!
Tacoma resident Lindsey Dono
has honed her skills by calling in Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia.
She recently led a terrific "Contra Flourishes" workshop at Casdace Contras.
This will be her Eugene calling debut.
Please welcome her warmly.
6:00 potluck near Amazon Park. Call Robert, 541-344-6108, for info.
- Saturday, May 11:
Full Circle
with
Nan Evans
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Full Circle
includes
these fine, skilled musicians:
George Penk
— fiddle;
Heather Pinney
— piano, fiddle;
Fred Nussbaum
— cello, percussion
Nan Evans is a beloved caller of English Country and Contra Dances from the rainy
Pacific Northwest.
Nan brings a commitment to the joy of dance and the magic of
community to dance groups around the country.
Nan is well known throughout the
Northwest and beyond for clear teaching,
a warm and welcoming style, and a love
of dances that flow - whether highly spirited or beautifully graceful.
Nan is at
home with small groups in the great room in the co-housing community where she
lives or with hundreds of dancers and beginners on the floor at a crowded
Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle.
Nan has been a featured caller at Lady of the
Lake for both the summer and fall camps,
at Monte Toyon for the San Francisco
area fall and spring dance camps,
Cascade Contras sponsored by the Eugene
dance community,
and at the Heather and Rose Suttle Lake Camp.
Nan often
works with her husband,
Fred Nussbaum, Portland's premier dance music cellist.
The EFS Annual Membership Meeting will take place this afternoon.
All are welcome.
5 pm meeting, 6 pm pot-luck dinner.
Please join us!
2727 Lawrence St., Eugene. Call 541-343-0191, Nikki or Peter for directions
- Saturday, May 25:
NO DANCE — Go to the
Northwest Folklife Festival
in Seattle instead!
- Saturday, June 8:
Mad Robin
with
Gordy Euler
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Local Eugene band Mad Robin features these three musicians:
Victor Fiore — fiddle, 5-string fiddle;
Cecily Morris — piano;
Art Morris — upright bass.
Victor is a physics graduate student at UO.
He grew up playing violin and listening to his mother's Irish band.
He converted to contra dance fiddle in 2005, and has been playing in the Portland open band since moving to Oregon in 2008, as well as playing workshops, jams and dance camps.
Art and Cecily moved back to Oregon this year after many years in Alaska.
Art has been playing contra dance bass since 2006, and Cecily has been playing contra dance piano since 1990.
They have played dances for the Alaska Folk Festival as well as regular weekly and monthly dances and the occasional wedding reception, most recently with the Grateful Celtics and Full Circle.
Gordy has been calling contra dances up and down the West Coast since at least 2000,
and has also written some dances.
He likes to orient newcomers gently and with humor,
teach succinctly, present a program with a variety of dances,
and have the dancers dance to the music as much as possible.
As a musician and dancer,
Gordy knows all sides of the dance community and has a great instinct on communicating effectively with bands and dancers.
Contradance/Potluck e-mail list:
For notification of Eugene and Corvallis mostly contra dance events and
potluck dinners - anyone
may subscribe to this list.
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(Or visit this web page to
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Corvallis car pool: Leaves at 7:00 from the parking lot accross from New Morning Bakery in downtown Corvallis.
Directions to EFS Contra dances
The Dunn School
3411 Willamette St., Eugene, OR 97405
- From north of Eugene on I-5:
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Follow I-5 Southbound to Exit 194B.
Take the exit and head west on I-105 / Oregon 126.
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After 1.3 miles, take exit 2 for Coburg Road and Downtown.
As you exit, stay left, towards Downtown and the University.
This will dump you onto southbound Coburg Road.
Stay on Coburg Road, crossing the Willamette River, and into downtown.
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After about a mile, exit right onto 8th Avenue.
Head west on 8th Avenue for two blocks,
until you can turn left onto Pearl Street.
After you cross 19th Avenue, Pearl becomes Amazon Parkway.
Keep Going.
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Turn Right at the light at 24th Avenue.
Follow 24th west for two blocks.
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Turn left at the light onto Willamette Street.
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Stay right at 32nd Avenue,
where Donald Street forks off to the left.
The Dunn School will lie on your left after another two blocks.
- There is limited automobile parking: Please carpool or ride your bike!
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The Dunn School has a small parking lot on the north side.
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You can also park on 35th Avenue, just south of the school.
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Alternatively,
turn off Willamette at 33rd,
and park in the South Eugene Post Office parking lot.
From south of Eugene on I-5:
Take I-5 to Exit 189 for South Eugene and 30th Avenue.
Proceed to the stop sign, and Turn Left onto 30th Avenue.
Follow 30th West for about three miles, up and over the big hill.
Turn Left at the light at Hilyard Street.
Follow Hilyard less than 1/4 mile.
Turn Right onto 33rd Avenue.
Follow 33rd West for three blocks.
Turn Left onto Donald Street.
Take the first right turn onto 35th Avenue.
Look for parking.
The school will be through the trees on your right.
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From Corvallis via Oregon highway 99
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On the north edge of Eugene, Loop right to get onto Beltline EAST.
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After 3 1/2 miles, exit right onto Delta highway SOUTH.
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Keep right at fork
(immediately after the Valley River Center overpass) following signs for Downtown/Fairgrounds.
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Coming off the freeway go straight ahead onto Jefferson Street.
Jefferson will take a jog at 13th Avenue so prepare by getting into the center lane.
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Turn Left onto 13th Ave.
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Almost immediately,
turn Right to continue south on Jefferson.
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Turn L onto 18th Ave.
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In just a few blocks (at a traffic light and gas station),
turn Right onto Willamette Street.
Continue south for about 1 1/2 miles.
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When the road splits (at 32nd),
take the right fork to continue south on Willamette.
At 33rd you'll see the post office on your left.
The entrance to the school is just past the post office.
- From the U of O Campus by bicycle
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Head south on Alder Street to 26th Avenue.
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Turn Right (West) onto 26th.
Cross Hilyard at the light,
and continue through the parking lot to the Amazon Bike Path.
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Turn left onto the bike path.
Follow the bike path to 33rd Avenue.
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Turn Right onto 33rd Avenue.
Follow 33rd West for three blocks.
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Turn Left onto Donald Street.
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Take the first right turn onto 35th Avenue.
Turn Right again to stay on 35th Avenue.
Either continue to Willamette, where
you'll find the school on your right,
or enter the back parking lot from 35th.
Here's a building map of the Dunn school.
We will dance in the gym, colored black.
Please bring your own water bottle to the dances at Dunn School.
We do not have access to a convenient water fountain or sink.
Teddy Roosevelt Middle School:
680 E 24th Ave, Eugene, OR 97405
(This is our backup location.
Unless otherwise specified, all dances take place at the Dunn School.)
- From the North:
- Go south on HWY 99 to Chambers St, and turn right (south).
- Continue through the lights at 11th and 13th,
and turn left (east) at the light at 18th Ave.
- Take 18th east for just over one and 1/4 mile,
passing the busy lights at Willamette and Oak,
and turn right (south) at the next light at Pearl.
- Pass 19th, and continue 1/2 mile south to the next light,
at 24th, and turn left.
- In less than 1/4 mile, you’ll see the school on the right.
- Turn IMMEDIATELY into the first driveway,
and park on one of the several small lots behind the school.
- From the south:
- If you head north on Willamette or Amazon parkway,
turn right onto 24th.
- If you head north on Hilyard, you will find the school on your left, at the corner of 24th.
- You may have to turn left onto 24th
and drive around the school to get into its parking lots.
- Via bicycle:
- Take the Amazon Creek bike path to 24th street.
Head east along 24th to the school.
- There is limited automobile parking: Please carpool or ride your bike!
Berean Baptist Church Gym:
1210 Chambers Street, Eugene, OR 97402
(This was a special location for the 11 Nov. 2010 dance.)
- From the North:
- Go south on HWY 99 or NW Expressway to Chambers St., and turn right (south).
- After the light at 11th, look for the church on your right.
- From the south:
- Get on Chambers via 18th or 28th, and head north.
- After the light at 13th, look for the church on your left.
Regional Dance Internet Resources
Do you have something to say to Willamette Valley dancers?
Want to share a ride? find a ride? You can connect here at
Oregon Contra Connection
There are two email lists with local dance information, one for Eugene and one or Corvallis.
These are cheap, easy, and environmentally friendly.
- To subscribe by email:
- Send an email to either
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efs-contradance-request@peak.org
- or
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cfs-contradance-request@peak.org
In the message body, say "subscribe". Wait for an email reply and
follow instructions. Unsubcribing is the same, but say "unsubscribe".
Change your email by unsubscribing from the old account and also
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- To subscribe via the web:
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Spencer Creek Grange Barn Dances: 3rd Saturdays
Spencer Creek Grange Barn Dances (Traditional square dancing, waltzes, and line dancing.)
Live music by the Old Time Fiddlers
Caller is Alan Ede of Corvallis
3rd Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.
Admission: $4 for adults, free for kids under 10.
The 2011 season (Fall/Winter) begins Saturday, November 19th.
Donations accepted at the door.
The Spencer Creek Grange is located
on the southwest side of Eugene,
at the corner of Lorane Hwy. and McBeth Rd.
(Google map to the location)
Corvallis Contra Dances: 1st and 3rd Saturdays
Corvallis Folklore Society:
Dances usually held at First Congregational Church, 4515 SW West Hills Rd, Corvallis
(Map).
From 99W, go west on Western, stay right as it veers left after the traffic light at 35th St.
Church is on the right.
Go to second driveway on the west side of the building,
head back to the parking lot, and go to the east end to enter Gatton Hall directly.
Please bring clean soled shoes to dance in to help protect the dance floor.
Cost: $6 CFS/EFS members; $7 general admission.
There are sometimes potluck dinners held before the dance at 6PM.
Info:
call 541-745-1002 (Karen and Frank Griswold)
or email:
contramaniac@gmail.com.
See Corvallis Dance Schedule.
Out of Town Contra Dances
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