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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: country dances, traditional dances, folk dances, barn dances, ceilidh dances, contra dances, Playford dances, etc.
Square dancing requires lessons to learn the standard set of steps. Find out more at an Introductory Open House from 7-8 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 22, at the Tallahassee Senior Center second floor ...
First two classes are free. Square dance lessons begin each year on the first Monday after Labor Day − Sept. 9 this year.
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.
A square dance program or square dance list is a set of defined square dance calls or dance steps which are associated with a level of difficulty. Programs and program lists are managed and universally recognized in modern western square dance. Upper-level dance programs include not only square dance calls, but also square dance concepts.
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 ...
In modern square dancing, the dancers interpret the caller's directions (calls) to determine whom to act with, where to go, and how to get there. All square dancers learn standard "definitions" of calls, which they recall and use when the caller issues a given command. Most square dancers learn about 100 calls.
Square dancers move to the music of the Ghost Riders at the 73rd National Square Dancing Convention on June 27 at the Baird Center in Milwaukee.