May I also recommend for contra dance, the documentary "Together in 
Time" which would seem appropriate for a young audience, both in its 
content and length (30 minutes).

You can find it at
http://www.greatmeadowmusic.com/
or
http://www.cdss.org/product-details/asetid/167723/product/together-in-time-a-story-of-new-england-contra-music-and-dance.337.html

- Max

Mark R Dobyns Jones wrote:
> The citations and further readiings on the wikipedia page for
>
> Contra Dance are not bad
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_dance#References
>
> And also for the Engllish Country Dance article too
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_country_dance#History_links
>
> ~Mark Jones
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Laur <lcpgr at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> I've read bits and pieces here and there from dance sites, and searched the archives (with too many off the path references).
>>
>> Can anyone either offer an attainable resource or send something I can work with?
>>
>> The audience, well, always me, myself and I, but in this specific case, a group of young people, grade school level and younger?, and their families.
>>
>> Appreciate it...
>>
>> Laurie
>>
>>
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