Hi, Hannah! I very much second Alex Deis-Lauby's recommendations. The difficulty in a contra corners figure in contra formation is two-fold: the out-of-minor-set interaction and the short allemandes. If you can get the dancers to do short allemandes earlier in the evening and use a dance without interaction outside the minor set (as in, a triplet or 3-face-3), then you've prepared them for one point of difficulty and removed the other. My favorite triplet for contra corners is "Microcasmic Triplet" by Ann Fallon and my favorite in 3-face-3 formation is "Down by the Riverside" by Melanie Axel-Lute. The choreography for both are in others' responses. If you determined to call contra corners in contra formation, I recommend "Labor of Love" by Kathy Anderson (choreography here: http://dancevideos.childgrove.org/contra/contra-modern/196-labor-of-love) because it uses a box-the-gnat to get actives to trade places before the contra corners figure, rather than a half-figure-eight, which is much more difficult for newer dancers. "Labor of Love" also allows ones and twos to trade off being active. Good luck! Dugan Murphy Portland, Maine dugan at duganmurphy.com www.DuganMurphy.com www.PortlandIntownContraDance.com www.NufSed.consulting