Welcome to Oklahoma City's Contra connection, the Scissortail Traditional Dance Society. Please browse around for information on times, callers, & bands as well as, dates, times, and location of our dances. You will find helpful information for new dancers from what to wear to tips on becoming a better dancer.
Scissortail Traditional Dance Society celebrates its 21st year anniversary in June 2009. Over the years we have grown to over 100 members and routinely have 30 to 50 dancers attend. We dance every 2nd Saturday of each month at the First Unitarian Church at 600 NW 13th Street in North Downtown OKC. We dance on 4th Saturdays at Epworth Methodist Church in OKC.
If you are new to contra dance, please come at 7:30pm. At about 7:40pm there is a brief review of basic moves for new dancers. The dances start at 8:00pm and last until 11:00pm. All dances are taught and called. Most of us change partners for each dance, so you need not bring one.
Admission is $8.00 for non-members & $6.00 for members. Annual membership dues are $8.00 single/$12 family. We dance a combination of simple to more advanced dances. Other types of dances are sometimes included: Waltz, Hambo, English Country, Schottish, Circle Mixers, & Squares to name a few. All live music!
Please check out our News page for the latest information regarding our special dances. In June we have our annual anniversary dance Flamingo Fling. (See the Calendar page.)
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The Scissortail Mega Band is made up of volunteer musicans who enjoy learning and playing contra dance music. We practice the 1st Saturday each month at the Oklahoma City Traditional Music Association at 6pm. The website with address and other info is at http://www.octma.org. If you would like to be a part of the Scissortail Mega Band contact Wayne Cantwell at wayne@flyinfiddler.com or 677.6194.