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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 bringing me out the dark” Allemande left, ...

They come in jeans and knit ski caps. Shiny cowboy shirts with scorpion bolo ties. Or in pressed suits just from the office. In churches, recreation centers and private basements throughout the Bay ...

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 ...