Clifton Park Contradance

12/28/2023

Do you live in or near Saratoga Springs?
The Flurry Festival needs your help! The Flurry needs “hosts” for performers and sound pros from February 16-18, 2024.
Homestay hosts offer a clean, comfy bedroom and a friendly welcome.
The Flurry offers you a free Full Festival admission for each performer hosted!
Please complete the survey below if interested, and PLEASE SHARE!

The Flurry Festival is coming! Save the dates: February 16, 17 & 18, 2024! Your generous support of the festival in this way allows us to bring high caliber performers from outside the immediate area and provide a fantastic festival! Please let us know if you would (or would not ) like to host a Flu...

06/14/2023

It’s a barn dance!

https://www.danceflurry.org/event/buhrmaster-barn-dance-2/

SCHEDULE
July 16 Elderberry Magic (Barbara Lubell, Vonnie Estes and Mark Bagdon) with caller Kathryn Wedderburn

July 30 Spare Parts with Eric Buddington with caller Fern Bradley

August 13 DFO Megaband with caller Katy Heine

02/28/2023

This wonderful local festival needs your help. Take a look:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-flurry-festival?fbclid=IwAR1F7Ai3gVDFBksvTL1K_O4jzIhJjNdkd8_oVQvDFArKD894K1_TpElj0aY

The Flurry Festival, which takes place over Presidents Weekend and is one of the largest tra… Flurry Festival needs your support for Save the Flurry Festival

07/16/2022

Are you ready to dance again?

👣 Are you ready to DANCE?! 👣
https://forms.gle/QnkBF7myoJjohw49A

Take our Return-to-Dance Survey to let organizers know what will make you comfortable getting back out there. There are specific questions for attendees of the Albany Contra, First Friday Swing, Cajun/Zydeco, and Family Dances, as well as general questions about readiness and Covid safety for all DFO dances. We eagerly await your feedback!

01/29/2022

Friday, February 18 at 7:00 PM
Celebrate Flurry Weekend at a live streamed benefit concert hosted by our friends at Caffe Lena. Emceed by veteran entertainer Kristoph “Ragliacci” DiMaria, this fundraising event will feature a lineup of familiar Flurry performers, both onstage and streaming in on video, to whisk you back to Flurryland for one magical night. All profits and donations will go to our Snowy Day Fund to preserve our ability to present the next Flurry, whether that works out to be this calendar year or next.
Live performers include The Whippersnappers, John Kirk and Trish Miller, Josh Fialkoff, and Joe and Jesse Bruchac. We’ll also have some special guests like the Faux Paws, Vanaver Caravan, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, and Garland Nelson popping in from home, for a multimedia Flurry experience. While we can’t dance together in the big hall just yet, that’s no reason not to keep up the party this President’s Weekend in Saratoga Springs. Reserve your seat in the house, or tap your feet along from home, as we make the Flurry Festival come alive again!
Current DFO members will get free streaming access – contact [email protected] if you do not receive the code by email.

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10/17/2021

You, too, can help the committee plan the 2022 Flurry Festival!

The Flurry committee is exploring options for a 2022 festival, taking into consideration the uncertain trajectory of the pandemic and widely varying comfort levels of our organizers and participants. We'd appreciate your input as we determine the shape of this winter's Flurry!

09/30/2021

From Lauren Keeley: The DanceFlurry Organization has been working internally to advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion through our Community Culture Committee. Now, we would like to hear from YOU! What helps you feel welcome and included at a traditional music/dance event? What sorts of things turn you off from attending? If you've never attended DFO, what would encourage you to give it a try? Have you had serious issues in the past that we can work to prevent in the future? Please consider completing our Survey at https://forms.gle/pjmTbwdnjqW23ETF9 because when we know better, we can do better. You can also email [email protected] if you want to join our efforts to make our events more inclusive when we re-open. We're looking forward to bringing back traditional music/dance even better than before.

05/10/2021

If you are - or might become - a contra dancer in the NY Capital Region, please take our survey! 🎶 https://forms.gle/NZ15ceJfZ4pyhGfU8 🎻🎹
The Albany contra dance plans to reemerge from the pandemic with a new committee-based management structure, and wants your input on what's most important to you. We're also looking for volunteers to join the organizing committee - email [email protected] if interested. And please share this survey with others in your circle!

The Albany, NY contra dance series seeks your input in planning for a post-pandemic resumption of dances under a new committee management structure. If you are a contra dancer who has attended or considered attending the Albany dance, we would value your feedback, and encourage you to forward this s...