Friends! We’re celebrating Pride Month and the history of gender free dancing in NYC with a techno contra at the West Village LGBT Center! We’ll have DJ’d beats from DJ Wavefold and calling from Maia McCormick! Plus a very glittery face-paint station!
Please note the special location and time!
Tickets Are Limited! Member tickets on sale on May 13th! Regular tickets go on sale May 21st here!
This dance will not have a lesson! Come ready to dance!
DJ Wavefold (Talya Raitzyk) brings the euphoric energy of classic and modern house and club music to the contra dance floor. Equally at home spinning records in a club or fiddling on the contra dance stage, Wavefold occupies a unique position within the world of contra dance musicians. She brings fresh energy and sound to the contra dance community through her music selections, which platform the widely marginalized and deeply expressive pioneers of recorded dance music. Her moniker combines a powerful synthesizer technique with a kinetic contra dance move–a direct representation of her ethos! In keeping with the style of traditional DJs, her sets are always selected and mixed live on the spot to fit each dance; her decade of contra dance fiddling and band-leading experience informs her close engagement with the caller, the dancers, and the sound. Her performances will lift you up, make you stomp, and spin you the other way back. She has been playing for techno contras around the US (under various performer names) since 2016.
Maia McCormick is a contradance caller and choreographer based in New York City. She calls around the Northeast and beyond, at festivals, dance camps/weekends, and regular dances alike (including, to name a few: Queer Contra Dance Camp, ESC Week at Pinewoods, Youth Dance Weekend, Dawn Dance, LCFD Spring Dance Camp, and the NEFFA festival).
As a choreographer, she strives to write dances that are both compelling and idiomatic. Her dances have made it into some other people’s collections, and have been called as far afield as California and Alaska.
Saturday June 21st
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center: 208 West 13th Street
5:30pm: Doors, Face Painting, Happy Hour (Dry)
6:30pm: Dancing!
9:30pm: Afters (location TBD)
Cost of entry $22 for non-members. Kids under 12 are free!