| # | Year | Theme | Bands/Callers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 2024 | Time Traveller’s Ball | Faux Paws, Drive Train / Will Mentor, Seth Tepfer | |
| 44 | 2023 | Contra in the Enchanted Forest | Latter Day Lizards, Spintuition*, Ed Howe and Alex Wilder / Cis Hinkle, Janine Smith, Janet Shepherd** Sound by Ed Howe, Chris Cantwell*** *replaced Audacious **replaced Seth Tepfer ***replaced Bill Porter | Dec Rec: A Fairy Tale Dance Weekend … which had a story book happy ending despite health issues with the talent including Covid (Audacious), unexpteced hospitalization (Seth Tepfer), and a high fever of unknown origin (Bill Porter). It also featured a stunningly beautiful Memorial Dance of Light in which we came together as a community to honor the dancers, musicians, family members, and friends we lost during the pandemic years. |
| 2022 | COVID CANCELLED | |||
| 2021 | COVID CANCELLED | |||
| 2020 | COVID CANCELLED | |||
| 43 | 2019 | Under the C(CD) | Eloise & Company, Genticorum / Seth Tepfer, Susan Kevra, Cis Hinkle | Dec Rec: The newt play the flute, the carp play the harp, the plaice play the bass, And they soundin’ sharp. The bass play the brass, the chub play the tub, the fluke is the duke of soul. |
| 42 | 2018 | Contra Surf | Toss the Possum, Syncopaths, ContraForce / Jesse Edgerton, Gaye Fifer | Dec Rec: (With apologies to the Beach Boys) If everybody had an ocean From sea to Contra sea Then everybody’d be surfin’ Surfin’ CCD You’d see ’em wearing their dance skirts Hawaiian mumus too A fishy swishy green hula Surfin’ CCD |
| 41 | 2017 | Starship CCD | Latter Day Lizards, Nova, Barefoot / Will Mentor, Seth Tepfer, Cis Hinkle | Dec Rec: Contra … the final frontier. These are the dances of the Starship CCD …. Its continuing mission: To seek out new dances, to explore new friends … to boldly go where no dancer has gone before! |
| 40 | 2016 | Peace, Love, Contra | Great Bear 6.0, The Stuff, Barefoot / Cis Hinkle, Sarah VanNorstrand, Deanna Palumbo | Dec Rec: By the time we got to DecRec, we were half a million strong, And everywhere there was song and celebration |
| 39 | 2015 | Alice in Contraland | Stingrays, Barefoot, King Kontra / Cis Hinkle, Geoff Cubitt | Dec Rec: A Through the Looking Glass contra weekend: Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance? |
| 38 | 2014 | The Wizard of Contra: One Dance Over the Rainbow | Elixir, Maivish / Nils Fredland, Luke Donforth | Dec Rec: An unlikely hands four (Dorothy, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow) dance down the Yellow Brick Road to meet the Wizard of Contra |
| 37 | 2013 | Contraband: A Roaring 20’s Dance Weekend | Lift Ticket, On The Fly, Atlanta Open Band / Seth Tepfer, Susan Taylor | Dec Rec: Prohibition, Speakeasies, Flappers, and Zoot Suits |
| 36 | 2012 | Once Upon a Contra | Latter Day Lizards, La Banane Enchantée / Lisa Greenleaf, Michael Hamilton | Morningside Baptist: Fairy Tales |
| 35 | 2011 | Au Contraire | Crowfoot, Red Mountain White Trash, The Capetians / Rick Mohr, Seth Tepfer, Doug Singleton | Morningside Baptist: Ooh La La! |
| 34 | 2010 | West Side Contra | Tidal Wave, Perpetual e-Motion / Diane Silver, Susan Kevra | Dec Rec: World’s Best Promo by Brian Matson; Skit: Trads vs Mods |
| 33 | 2009 | Pirates of the Contrabean | Elixir, Tribal Tune Twisters, Wing & a Prayer / Nils Fredland, Rob Harper | Dec Rec: Arrrrrgh! |
| 32 | 2008 | Some Enchanted Contra | KGB, Anna’s Bananas / Cis Hinkle, Seth Tepfer, Robbin Marcus | Dec Rec: South Seas idyll |
| 31 | 2007 | Puttin’ on the Ritz | Moving Violations, Hot Feet, Atlanta Swamp Opera, Fine Companions / Nils Fredland, Seth Tepfer, Beth Molaro | Dec Rec: Fred & Ginger elegance |
| 30 | 2006 | 1001 Nights of Contra | Latter Day Lizards, House Red, Fetchin’ Cat, Mostly Fine Companions / Lisa Greenleaf, Cis Hinkle, Susan Davis, Janet Shepherd | Dec Rec: Arabian Nights theme: celebrating the fact that, by Nov of 2006 CCD had staged ~1001 dance events |
| 29 | 2005 | Tapestry | Airdance, The Elftones, Smoke & Mirrors / Robert Cromartie, Cis Hinkle | Dec Rec: CCD Community Quilts |
| 28 | 2004 | Dance: a Thread in the Fabric of Life | Hotpoint, Merriweather / Joseph Pimentel, Seth Tepfer | Dec Rec: CCD Memorabilia |
| 27 | 2003 | Much Ado about Contra | Nightingale, Fetchin’ Cat, Some Fabulous Troubadours / Steve Zakon-Anderson, Cis Hinkle | Dec Rec: Shakespeare does contra |
| 26 | 2002 | Green Legs and Ham | Airdance, Shadrack’s Delight / Lisa Greenleaf, Cis Hinkle | Dec Rec: Dr. Seuss in contraland |
| 25 | 2001 | Lord of the Swing | Popcorn Behavior / Peter Amidon | Dec Rec: Tolkein fantasy |
| 24 | 2000 | Head for the Hills | Hillbillies from Mars / Cis Hinkle, Becky Hill | Dec Rec: Becky Hill in a Minnie Pearl hat, complete with price tag |
| 23 | 1999 | Atlanta Movie Contras | ??? / Robert Cromartie | Dec Rec: Great themes from the movies |
| 22 | 1998 | Heavenly Bodies in Motion | ??? | Dec Rec: Outer space |
| 21 | 1997 | Dancestock: W.A.L.S.D.I.B.* | Nightingale / ??? | Dec Rec: *What a Long Strange Dance It’s Been |
| 20 | 1996 | A Southern Sampler | James Bryan, Freight Hoppers / Kathy Anderson | Dec Rec: Old Time Dance-a-rama |
| 19 | 1995 | Ol’ Limp Hicks | Red Mountain White Trash / Kathy Anderson | Dec Rec: In the Atlanta Olympics year the Olympic Rings became Ol’ Limp Hicks squares.We had a parade of nations at the break — folks from visiting dance groups marched in together. |
| 18 | 1994 | Cirque du CCD | Lisa Orstein & Nick Howes / John Krum | Mercer: Heitzo choreographed a Circque du Soleil-type fantasy dance performance for Cirque du CCD |
| 17 | 1993 | Contra Around the Clock: CCD Acres Estates – If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now | Rodney Miller Band / ??? | Mercer: An amazing performance choreographed by Chris Kawa of a takeoff on “Rock Around the Clock.” Jolie Fainberg and Cis Hinkle pulled together all sorts of 1950’s memorabilia, and staged several “rooms” around the gym including Betty’s bedroom (aka Kaia Denham’s actual 1950’s bedroom), Mom’s kitchen, Dad’s den, and Bud’s bomb shelter. Also a very funny rocket launch engineered by Danny Parden |
| 16 | 1992 | Club CCD | ??? / ??? | Mercer: Club Med type Contra Dance Resort |
| 15 | 1991 | Hell Broke Loose in Georgia | Hell Benders / Larry Edleman | Druid Hills High School: |
| 14 | 1990 | Homecoming Dance | Jay Unger and Molly Mason, Wild Asparagus / ??? | Dec Rec: CCD had just moved to the Horizon School. The Chris Kawa-choreographed skit was a depiction of the history of CCD and its venues to date …Garden Hills, E Church (complete with moving piano), Shakespeare Storefront, culminating with building the floor at Horizon. |
| 13 | 1989 | Hillbillies from Mars | Hillbillies from Mars / John Krum | Dec Rec: Take off on Beverly Hillbillies |
| 12 | 1988 | Starship Allemande | Horseflies / Frank Hall | Dec Rec: |
| 11 | 1987 | Allemande Land: An independent principality in the Southeastern United States | Jay Unger and Molly Mason / John Krum | Dec Rec: This year’s flier included a map — the country was shaped like a guitar, the capital was Dancedelphia, included the Polka-no Mountain range, etc, etc. The skit was the myth of Allemande Land’s origin, Lindsay Morris was a bard, and there were lots of quaint peoples milling about. |
| 10 | 1986 | Now We Are 10 | Wild Asparagus / ??? | Decatur High School: A celebration of CCD’s 10th birthday |
| 9 | 1985 | A Touch of Country in the City | Norman and Nancy Blake, James Bryan / Bob Dalsemer | Grady High School: |
| 8 | 1984 | Brand Name Dance Festival | ??? / Ted Sannella | Dec Rec: Featuring a real brand-name out of town caller |
| 7 | 1983 | Generic Dance Festival | ??? / Bob Thompson | Dec Rec: All decorations were in black & white; the CCD community ‘quilt’ we raffled off this year was actually a white moving blanket with ‘QUILT’ appliqued on it |
| 6 | 1982 | No Theme | Jim Morrison / ??? | Dec Rec: |
| 5 | 1981 | No Theme | Small Wonder / Sandy Bradley | |
| 4 | 1980 | No Theme | Fred Breunig & Dinah | |
| 3 | 1979 | No Theme | ||
| 2 | 1978 | No Theme | ||
| 1 | 1977 | No Theme | CCD born |
