Michael Karcher, dance caller

Calling Experience

Dance weekends and festivals

  • Head for the Hills
  • Pittsburgh Fall Dance Weekend
  • Balance the Bay
  • Cascade Contras
  • NEFFA
  • ContraCopia/ValleyCopia
  • Twilight Twirl
  • Burning Man Contradance Camp
  • Corvallis Contra Weekend
  • Lightspeed Contra Camp (co-organizer & co-caller)
  • Dance Camp North
  • Youth Dance Weekend
  • Bear Hug Mountain Festival
  • Chehalis Contra Dance Camp
  • 12-Hour Twirl
  • Northwest Folklife
  • Cascade Promenade

Evening dances (highlights)

  • Valley Contra, Bethlehem, PA
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • Swingin' Tern, Chatham, NJ
  • PCD, Princeton, NJ
  • Scout House Thursday, Concord, MA
  • Downtown Amherst, Amherst, MA
  • Guiding Star Grange, Greenfield, MA
  • Brooklyn Contra, Brooklyn, NY
  • CDNY, New York, NY
  • Village Contra, New York, NY
  • Glen Echo, Washington, DC
  • Emerald City Contra, Seattle, WA
  • Lake City Contra, Seattle, WA
  • PCDC, Portland, OR
  • CFS, Corvallis, OR
  • VCD, Vancouver, BC
  • VCD, Victoria, BC
  • Circle Left, Oakland, CA
  • Santa Barbara, CA
  • Google Contra Dance, Mountain View, CA
  • Fairbanks, AK

Special events

  • Experimental Contra House Parties
  • Techno Contras
  • Weddings/Receptions
  • Birthday Parties/Dances

Training

  • Lisa Greenleaf's Contra Callers Course (Pinewoods 2012)
  • Nils Fredland's Singing Squares Callers Course (Pinewoods 2011)