Cayford, Rhonda

Rhonda Cayford

Rhonda Cayford (Martinez, CA) has been an avid contra dancer for more than 40 years. She started dancing in Boston in 1978 and had the good fortune to move to San Francisco in 1980, just as the dance scene was taking off there. She discovered rapper at BACDS English Week in 1986, which has been her passion ever since. She is the founder of Twisted Sisters and was a long-time member of Swords of Gridlock and Berkeley Morris. She also enjoys English country dance, English clog, Cajun/zydeco and will try just about any type of dance. She regularly teaches at BACDS Family Week and has been a camp manager and programmer. She has also been a BACDS board member and past president.

Happily retired from working as a veterinary technician, Rhonda spends as much time as she can hiking. Her schedule includes a camino a year—last fall, she walked the Camino Portuguese, and the year before, she walked the Camino Frances.

Aside from the joy of dancing, Rhonda believes in creating community and believes that CDSS plays an important role in bringing communities together. COVID brought home the realization that we are much more than a group of people who enjoy dance and music—we are a community, and our ties extend far beyond the evening or week of dance.