Seth Tepfer

Seth Tepfer is a contra dance caller and writer from Decatur, Georgia. He has written around 200 dances, which he has released under a Creative Commons license.

Education Tepfer graduated from Emory University in 1990 with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. He began managing the school’s computer labs after graduation and in 1995 he started working as director of administrative technologies at Emory's Oxford College. In 2016, Tepfer earned an MBA in Management of Technology from Georgia Tech.

Calling career In 1987, Tepfer began Scottish country dancing. Tepfer was the caller for a barn dance for former president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn in 2004. In 2012, the Elizabethton Star called him one of the "nation's top callers." In the 2014 film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, Tepfer choreographed folk dancing for the wedding scene and trained the actors for the sequence. Internationally, Tepfer has called dances in Canada, France, Germany, Denmark, Costa Rica, Greece, and England. In 2026, he collaborated with the Country Dance and Song Society to host the monthly Contra Callers' Corner series. They have two sons.