The Friends of Greenfield Dance supports traditional dance and music opportunities in Greenfield, MA.
Welcome to the dance community at the Guiding Star Grange. Here, we strive to accept each other’s differences while celebrating our mutual love of dance, music, community and friendship. We provide a platform of dialogue and support for all dance organizers in Greenfield and we support opportunities to strength our dance community through workshops and dances. Learn more about us.
Events hosted by Friends of Greenfield Dance (contra prom, pub sing, and fall frolic) use this safety policy. Different dances in Greenfield Mass use different policies or no policy at the organizer’s discretion.
Come to a dance! Dances at the Guiding Star Grange in Greenfield are run by eight different dance organizers who offer a variety of contra dances each month, on Friday and Saturday evenings. Occasional workshops are offered through the year, and special dances are held on selected Sundays.
Complete dance information is available by checking the Guiding Star Grange Calendar of Events. An overview of all monthly dances in Greenfield is also available for download (PDF, on Facebook (Greenfield Contra Dance is Awesome and other dance series pages) and PVCD via email.
Have you ever wanted to learn to call contra dances?
We want to hear from you, right now, about any potential interest!
We need to hear from you! To craft this session, we need to know how many folks are interested, how much experience you may or may not have, and any particular topics you’d love to learn!
Email us at gro.e1750293104cnadd1750293104leifn1750293104eergf1750293104osdne1750293104irf@s1750293104tneve1750293104">gro.e1750293104cnadd1750293104leifn1750293104eergf1750293104osdne1750293104irf@s1750293104tneve1750293104 ASAP if you are interested so we can budget, plan, and design a workshop series that you’ll love!
Have you started calling, but would like more formal instruction with hands-on learning with peers?
Are you a contra musician, looking to learn more about the other side of the performance?
Are you a dance organizer, and would like the skills in the case that a caller is stuck in traffic, or had to cancel last-minute, and no other callers are available?
Are you an aspiring contra dance choreographer, and want to hone the skills.
Contingent on interest, Friends of Greenfield Dance is considering sponsoring a contra calling workshop series, sometime this summer / early-fall.
It would (contingent on interest) be led by Julian Blechner, and feature other veteran callers.
Students would be given lots of opportunity for hands-on practice and connection with local dances.
Greenfield Covid 19 Policy:
PLEASE NOTE: Friends of Greenfield Dance does not have any power in changing individual dance series’ Covid policies.
To find the Covid-19 Policies of all dance series hosted at the grange, go to this table. <https://tinyurl.com/covid19-gsg-dances>
Due to the concerns of our community that include immunocompromised individuals, intergenerational folks, and at-risk workers, the Friends of Greenfield Dance reserve the right at any given time to set COVID policies for FGD events (including prom, fall frolic, or family dances but not regular Friday or Saturday series dances) based on but not limited to: community exposure, wastewater numbers indicating the number of COVID cases in Greenfield, and environmental variables.
–Friends of Greenfield Dance Board 2/14/24