RecordNumber
3648
Author
Thomas, Matthew
Crop_Body
Matthew Thomas, Crystal Peebles
Title of Article
A Graph-Theoretic Approach to the Analysis of Contra Dances
Title Of Journal
Bridges
Publication Year
2016
Abstract
Contra dance is an American folk dance comprised of combinations dance moves announced by a caller, similar to
those of square dance. Because of their structured nature, we propose a new approach that considers these dances
as paths through a directed multigraph. In this paper, we describe the motivation and construction of this extensible
approach.