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  Square dance club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Western square dance".
Square dance clubs participate in square dance associations of regional, area-wide, national and special interest character, as well as non-square dance association and organizations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Square_dance_club   (739 words)

  
 Modern Western square dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Dancers learn the individual square dance calls required to square dance at classes, which are usually taught by square dance callers, and are usually sponsored or organized by square dance clubs.
These include the visibility and popularity of square dance performers such as Lloyd "Pappy" Shaw‘s traveling troupe of "teenage cowboy square dancers"; the way square dancing and the west were portrayed in western movies and early television; and the popular clothing styles of those times, for example poodle skirts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_square_dance   (1956 words)

  
 Square dance - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Square dance is a folk dance for four couples that was first described in 17th century England, but which has become associated with the United States of America due to its historic development in that country.
Square dancing is enjoyed by people around the world, and people around the world are involved in the continuing development of this dance.
Traditional square dance, which is frequently presented in alternation with contra dances, and is most prevalent in New England, with Appalachia and the South being close seconds.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /s/sq/square_dance_1.html   (702 words)

  
 Encyclopedia topic: Square dance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Square dancers are prompted or cued through a sequence of steps (square dance choreography) by a square dance caller to the beat of music.
Dancing Western square dance is constantly challenging and surprising due to the unknown or unexpected choreography of the caller (i.e.
Western square dance is danced to a variety of music types, everything from pop to traditional country to broadway musical to contemporary country music (A simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sq/square_dance.htm   (888 words)

  
 Benefits of Square Dancing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The dance programs used are all standardised and no matter where in the world you learn - you can still dance the same in other parts of the world.
In square dancing, the dancers responsibility is to simply follow the "calls" and be where they are supposed to be at the moment they are supposed to be there.
Square dancing is based upon walking in defined directions for defined distances - which is exactly what walking is. And since walking is one of the most natural things we do - square dancing becomes so easy to learn.
fun2dance.com /Benefits.htm   (708 words)

  
 The Times Squares Home Page
In traditional, or Eastern square dancing, one generally encounters a fairly small number of different dances, with the choreography for a particular song varying only a little from place to place or with time.
Modern Western square dancing is a standardized outgrowth of this, which was created by Callerlab, an organization of square dance callers.
For example, the entry level Callerlab program, Basic, consists of about 50 calls, including such familiar ones as "dosados," "allemande left," and "right and left grand." Because the dancers are expected to already know the calls on the announced program, teaching is generally not done at a dance.
www.iagsdc.org /timessquares/tsmodwest.html   (423 words)

  
 Massachusetts State Senator Jane Swift   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brodeur to begin a pilot square dance program at the Allendale Elementary School in an effort to bring cultural enrichment to the youth of Pittsfield.
Dancing seems to be an area where generations can meet and enjoy a cultural experience.
This pilot program may be the first step toward establishing square dancing as a folk art.
www.squaredance-hoedown.com /endorsements/senate.html   (195 words)

  
 Tony Oxendine bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
One of the most popular and sought after callers in the world, Tony was introduced to square dancing in 1972 through a teenage square dance program sponsored by the local Parks and Recreation Department.
With his musical background (singing professionally with a band for many years), and with his young analytical mind (majoring in both math and computer science at the University of South Carolina), he was quickly drawn into calling.
Square Dancing Today is the activity’s first full-color, full size magazine.
www.tonyoxendine.com /about/bio.asp   (405 words)

  
 The Joffrey Ballet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This eight-week dance education and enrichment program provides guidance and insight to schools with existing dance programs with a focus on fostering discipline and developing essential life skills through improving performance quality, expressiveness and artistic presentation.
Our curriculum based programs are designed to meet the specific needs of each school and classroom, helping teachers to infuse their curricula with the performing arts and obtain all the benefits that accompany a non-traditional learning environment.
Students learn the history of square dancing in America, relate the dancing to mathematical problems, reflect on their learning experience with journal-writing and visual art projects, and even choreograph their own square dance sequences.
www.joffrey.com /outreach_school.html   (650 words)

  
 California Heritage Dancers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lovett's job was to set up a square dance program, collect the music, and teach these almost forgotten dances to Mr.
Many of the old time dances, which where the ancestors of the square dance, were included in the book: quadrilles, Lancers, singing squares, circle mixers, contras, rounds, and a gavotte.
To be invited to one of the Ford's dances was a socially coveted attainment.
www.heritagedance.com /h_ford.html   (370 words)

  
 Square Dance ABC - Three easy beginner square dances for everyone!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Square Dance ABC is an introduction to today's square dancing.
New dancers and their friends can join Square Dance ABC at any time by dancing the individual A, B and C dances in any order.
Square Dance ABC spells an easy way for people to try square dancing at any time, with little or no commitment but with lots of opportunity for
www.squaredanceabc.com   (169 words)

  
 Capital City Squares - Schedule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Capital City Squares is a not-for-profit organization whose pupose is to provide educational, recreational, and social opportunities within the framework of Modern Western square dancing for the gay and lesbian community.
Modern Western square dancing has been a standardized by Callerlab, an organization of square dance callers.
For example, the entry level Callerlab program, Mainstream, consists of about 68 calls, including such familiar ones as "dosados," "allemande left," and "right and left grand." Because the dancers are expected to already know the calls on the announced program, teaching is generally not done at a dance.
www.iagsdc.org /capitalcitysquares/about.html   (270 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Mainstream Dancers square dance club was formed in July 1995 in order to provide additional dancing for new square dancers and experienced square dancers during the summer months.
The Mainstream Dancers Square Dance Club is a place for new dancers and experienced dancers to meet and dance in a relaxed atmosphere, allowing everyone to have a very good time.
The dance facility is an exceptional place for dance since it is air conditioned and has a wood floor.
www.chuckandgerry.com /clubhouse/MSDANCE1.html   (696 words)

  
 Parks and Recreation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Square Dance program is held on Friday evenings throughout the calendar year and features Early Rounds from 6:30 to 8:00 pm.
Featuring American and Latin dances, this class is taught on Monday evenings from 7:30-9:30 PM in small groups and a private atmosphere.
The program is a prerequisite for membership in the Treasure Coast Fencing Association and ensures the safety and consistency of all the participants.
www.cityofstuart.com /REC/aerobics.html   (584 words)

  
 Promotion Ideas - Ontario Square and Round Dance Federation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Because Modern Square Dancing is simply walking and shuffling your feet to the beat of the music, it's very attractive to people of all ages, from teenagers to seniors.
For square dancing ladies are encouraged to wear a comfortable skirt to ensure freedom for moving.
Square dancing began its transition from the traditional old fashioned, visiting couple type of dancing into all-four-couple-working kind of dancing in the 1950's.
www.magma.ca /~ontfed/promotion.html   (2430 words)

  
 Square Dance and Round Dance Federation of Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Square and Round Dance Federation was formed in 1979 with the outlying objective to guide and promote Square and Round Dancing throughout the province.
This material has been made available throughout the province to areas that do not have a resident caller or where the cost of a caller is prohibitive for a small number of new dancers.
Both types of dancing are divided into progressive programs of difficulty and advancement.
www.sksquaredance.ca   (1589 words)

  
 Catalog 2
The purpose of abbreviations is to reduce the size of words, without confusing the reader, and to conserve space within the body of the cue sheet.
The Glossary is a separate section of the ROUNDALAB Standards that lists terms used in Round Dancing that are not figures and may not have the same meaning as the common dictionary definition.
This manual includes a number of things a square dance caller should consider when including rounds in the square dance program.
www.roundalab.org /catalog/catalog_2.htm   (600 words)

  
 City of Stuart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The beginner program is held from 6:30 P.M. to 8:15 P.M. and the intermediate/advanced class from 8:15 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. The fee is $35 a session or $10 a class.
This is an instructional program in traditional Middle Eastern Dance or it’s more popular name of "Belly" Dancing." The program is held on Wednesday evenings; beginners from 5:30 P.M. to 6:30 P.M. and the intermediates from 6:30 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. The session is for 4 weeks and the fee is $24.
The Square Dance program is held on Friday evenings throughout the calendar year and features Early Rounds from 6:30 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. and a Plus Dance from 9:00 P.M. The fee is $7 per couple.
www.cityofstuart.com /REC/events.html   (894 words)

  
 Ask the Square Dance Guru - DOSADO.COM
This way, you both continue dancing (although one of you may not have been in the position that the caller intended), and you may be pleasantly surprised to discover that the caller has outwitted you both, by creating a sequence which can be interpreted both ways and still work successfully.
The fact that Square Dancing requires a great deal of learning means that only those people who enjoy learning are likely to stay in the activity.
Square Dancing can never be as standardized as computer networking protocols, or programming language specifications; there are too many callers with good ideas and firm opinions.
www.dosado.com /articles/guru.html   (12644 words)

  
 Square Dance Clubs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dean and Kitty Emery began square dance lessons in 1976 with the Springhill Stompers Square Dance Club in Mobile, AL.
He also began the Square Dance Program for the City of Mobile Recreation Department.
Eventually he turned this program over to a new caller he trained, Fred Grantham, and out of it came the Azalea City Squares.
www.ushandicapable.org /our.htm   (243 words)

  
 Cham 2006, 16 April - 21 April 2006
Those that dance A-1 and would like to learn more are welcome to attend and workshop (and practice) the A-2 figures.
Dancers attending this class should be graduated round dancers and be comfortable dancing all the phase I and II figures and and be familiar most of the phase III figures in the common rhythms such as: cha-cha, rumba, jive, waltz and foxtrot.
The dancers should be comfortable in dancing all the figures up to and including phase IV in all rhythms and be familiar most of the phase V figures in the common rhythms such as: cha-cha, rumba, jive, waltz and foxtrot.
home.tiscali.nl /~rotscheid/Cham/Cham2006.html   (428 words)

  
 Dance Times Square | Current Events
Our holiday packaging are only good for students who are already participating in a Dance Times Square dance program.
This year Dance Times Square was a strong participating member of National dance Week.
From the amazing social dance party we held on Friday night to the culminating performances we held on Sunday afternoon.
www.dancetimessquare.com /index.php?page=44   (698 words)

  
 Practices & Procedures Section 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Coordination of the daily square dance activities at the State Fair in Salem, the purpose of which is to interest and introduce non-dancers to clubs in their local area for dance instruction.
To bring into being such things as the establishment of square dancing as our National Folk dance; discouraging television and radio advertising that discolors the image of square dancing and square dancers, and persuading or dissuading events or activities that would affect the square dance image as a whole.
To bring about a bonding of its members in square dance ethics, standardization of square and round dance movements and a communiqué of square dance clubs.
www.squaredance.gen.or.us /section01.html   (623 words)

  
 Palomino Records.com
A Quadrille is a square dance of French origin performed by four couples.
One side of the record is cued with the dances, the other side is music only so dancers who know the dances can enjoy the nice music and creative teachers can present interesting variations of the dances.
Each dance is cued on one side of the record, on the other side is music only (without cues).
www.palominorecords.com /sd/descript.htm   (1008 words)

  
 Square Dance Couple Rotation Program (SQROT)
Static rotations are generally only used at dances or weekends where the number of couples and number of tips is known in advance.
Various hardcopy printouts of the rotation can be generated and brought to the dance.
As each couple arrives at the dance, their couple name is added to the list of couples.
www.ceder.net /sqrot.php4   (471 words)

  
 computersoftwar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
allows you to work out Square Dance choreography on your computer by typing in a sequence of calls to simulated dancers on your computer screen.
The main way to use the program is to try out your choreography and see the effects on the dancers before actually calling it.
Because the program keeps count of the number of steps in a routine, creating your own singing call figures is easy.
www.hiltonaudio.com /portable/compsoft.htm   (447 words)

  
 USAWest Square Dance Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
We have 35 Square Dance callers & instructors signed up to provide many hours of dancing fun at all levels.
We are featuring the Chinook Recording artists Daryl Clendenin, Bill Helms and Doug Davis with the squares and Tami Helms with the rounds.
Here is the Square Dance schedule for the Convention - Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
www.squaredancing.com /usawest/squaredance.htm   (152 words)

  
 Ceder Square Dance System (CSDS)
Since the program knows which type of sequences are contained in each database, it can verify that the sequences work (e.g., that after a corner-progression singing call sequence, the dancers are in sequence, and paired with their corners.
When the program is unable to do a particular call, or a variation of a call, you are prompted to 'add it'.
The program may be installed on multiple machines provided that only the licensed user actually uses the program.
www.ceder.net /csds.php4   (966 words)

  
 Bows & Beaus Singles & Couples Square Dance Club
The Bows and Beaus Singles and Couples Square Dance Club of the Mountain View / Palo Alto area of California, is a member of the Santa Clara Valley Square Dancers Association (SCVSDA), and is one of the longest operating and most respected square dance clubs in the Santa Clara Valley.
The club also sponsors a beginning square dance class each year on Mondays evenings.
The current class is invited to dance as guests of the club every Wednesday until graduation.
www.bowsandbeaus.org   (915 words)

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