Though Banjos in Love, For Maxine & Brendan does fit the quality of 
"Contra-like", it's not the easiest dance in the world. But it does have its 
own intro/break:

Banjos in Love, for Maxine and Brendan  Quadrille

Intro, Break, End

A1      Head women chain right;
Same four half hey

A2      Four women star right half way (4)
Swing the one you meet (12)

B1      New head women chain right (actually, same head women, new head men);
Same four half hey

B2      Four women star right half way (4)
Swing partner at home (12)


 
Figure

A1      Head couples lead right, split the sides, and cross trail through, 
around one to lines (man man woman woman)
Lines of four, forward and back, center women roll away with a half sashay

A2      Forward and back
Women chain across, end courtesy turn with a roll away with a half sashay

B1      Swing the one coming your way (they're across from you at the ends of 
the lines, and next to you in the center of the lines)

B2      Promenade this new partner to the man's home place.

Call: intro, heads, heads, break, sides, sides, end

A (slightly improved upon) square for the wedding of Maxine Gerber and Brendan 
Doyle, both great banjo players from Berkeley.  Either of these figures can be 
used as a quadrille figure with a normal break, but they were conceived as a 
single dance.

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