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 ...

The Pennsylvania Farm Show has some weird events – grape stomping, a rabbit hopping contest – but perhaps the oddest is the tractor square dance. So what makes someone go, “Hmm, what I want to do is ...

Square-dancing has been part of American social life for centuries. This American folk dance is the product of traditional dances that have gone through many changes over the years, but the main form ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This July 3, 2019 photo shows Marge Coahran, left, of Toronto, and Scott Amspoker Albuquerque, N.M., calling to dancers during the ...

A few years ago, the United States officially adopted Square Dancing as the National Folk Dance. If you’ve been wanting to ‘doe-si-doe’ with friends and family, we’ve got the perfect place for you.

The traditional couples dance is making a post-COVID comeback, just in time for winter barn dances and community socials. Cowboy boots not required. Though COVID took a toll on square dancing, it’s ...

Celebrating a tradition in its 53rd year, Hutchinson High School students on Friday laughed, bounced and danced in place anticipating the start of the next song. As "Oh Johnny Oh" began to blare from ...

Inside Arlington Presbyterian Church's Showalter Hall, couples swing and step in time with Jim Cosman's calls to Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines." It's not the kind of song people think of with square ...

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 ...

BAMBERG, Germany -- Americans here had the opportunity to expand their interests and revisit a traditional pastime of their country. The Bamberg Cornhuskers, a square dancing group three decades old, ...