--- Luke wrote:
I'm now wondering how many active contra dance callers are out there... I'm guessing
somewhere between 100 and 1000 (for an order of magnitude).
--- end of quote ---
The higher end of your range is probably correct. The Dance Gypsy lists 534 individuals
as leaders of contra dance. Charlie Seelig's dance pages shows just under 500
callers, though that list includes some who are not in the US and some who are
callers of squares or English country dance but not contras.
As an interesting pint of comparison, to illustrate how excited the Danes have
been about contras and traditional squares, in that country of about 5.5. million
people, over the last 30 years about 500 people have been trained as callers.
In any given year, there are about 60-75 active callers.
David Millstone
Lebanon, NH
