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The Bent Creek Ranch Square Dance Team dancing at the Mountain Music Festival in Asheville, North Carolina. A square dance is a dance for four couples, or eight dancers in total, arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square. Square dances are part of a broad spectrum of dances known by various names ...
Square dance clubs are the primary form for organization within the recreational activity of square dancing, and more specifically modern western square dance.This article's focus is the modern western square dance club, and it is understood in the context of this article that when the terms "square dance club" or "square dance" are used it refers to the form of square dance called "modern ...
The square functions as a "dance team" for the duration of a square dance tip, a group of dances usually separated from the next tip by a pause during which the dancers regroup into new squares. A square dance tip is usually composed of a combination of patter calls and singing calls, the two types of square dance calls.
When the National Square Dance Convention last came to Milwaukee in 1979, about 20,000 people clapped, tapped and twirled their way across the dance floor. There's fewer square dance partners to ...
First two classes are free. Square dance lessons begin each year on the first Monday after Labor Day − Sept. 9 this year. Learn to square dance with Claxton Country Squares; lessons begin Sept. 9
The event includes performances by The Wilde Bunch Square Dancers, an LGBTQ+ square dance group from Albuquerque; Pueblo Enchantment Dancers from Acoma Pueblo; Van Hanh Vietnamese Lion Dancers and ...
A traditional square dance in Concord, Massachusetts. Traditional square dance is a generic American term for any style of American square dance other than modern Western.The term can mean (1) any of the American regional styles (broadly, Northeastern, Southeastern, and Western) that existed before around 1950, when modern Western style began to develop out of a blend of those regional styles ...
Square dance clubs vary in their accommodation of young dancers, ranging from clubs organized specifically for youth, through ones that are populated by dancers of every age, to some that are oriented exclusively to adults. Some representative categories of square dance clubs and classes with respect to age: