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 swing ...

Microphone in hand, square dance caller Mike Hogan cues up a song as groups of couples take their places on the floor. As the men and women grasp hands, the energetic Omaha man with an easy smile ...

Square dance, explained Pegasus Squares’ former president Alan Josephson, is “not a set dance.” It is, instead a set of calls, from the “caller,” telling the dancers what to do next. The caller calls ...

These were some of the dance instructions, or calls, that square dance caller Arlene Kaspik gave to attendees at the Introduction to Square Dance Party, hosted by the Glenview Square Dance Club, also ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The strains of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” are pulsing, and the dance floor is packed. “There’s a fire starting in my heart reaching a fever pitch and it’s ...

Square dancing sounds like something out of Little House on the Prairie, but in truth, square dancing has been a part of American entertainment for centuries. According to the Square Dance History ...

At its most basic level, square dancing requires only a couple of things: eight people who can form a square and a shared language. It's a language that doesn't care about gender or politics. "It's ...