 Well, the Bemidji Contra Dance Series is back for a second season. Reporter Cheryl Moore tells us about the dance style for this week's In Focus. It's time to grab a partner and throw on your dancing shoes. The Bemidji Contra Dance Series is back for a second session. Thanks in part to the Region 2 Art Council. We have our advisory group and I wrote a grant for Region 2 Art Council, and they just funded our third grant to start up next week. So we're very grateful to Region 2 Art Council, and also we are grateful to Headwaters School of Music and Arts for being our fiscal sponsor. Contra Dancing is a lively, traditional social dance that originated in New England. It is now done all over the United States. These are just dances. Contra Dance, traditionally, you don't go to a class to Contra Dance, you show up to a dance and they train you in. The people that have already been there before know how to do it. We start with, you know, stuff. We just, I just call to whatever the crowd is up for. There's no experience required for Contra Dancing. All you have to do is be willing to get on the dance floor. If you can walk in time to the music, then you can Contra Dance, everything else we teach. If you have a partner you'd like to dance with, wonderful. If you don't have anybody that you want to come with, fine. If you have someone you come with and want to keep trading out partners, I actually recommend that because then you can dance with someone who's done it before. All ages are welcome at the sessions, so it's a great activity for the entire family. We love being with community, with meeting new people. It's being something that it's an activity and that we're not just talking, we're talking and sharing, but we're also moving and the music is just wonderful. The second series of the Contra Dance sessions will run through May. The next two dates right here at Rail River, Saturday nights at seven, the next one is November 17th. The one after that is December 8th. And then if you look up, if you search for Bemidji Contra Dance on Facebook, you'll see all the information. Running of Bemidji with this week's In Focus, Shremorne, Lakeland News. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.