MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Over 2,000 folks are putting on their dancing shoes for the 72nd annual National Square Dance Convention. This year, it’s being held right here in the Port City. It’s a four-day ...
Square dancers from around the country as well as Australia, Asia and Europe will do-si-do from 11:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. today, and 11:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. tomorrow and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - It’s being billed as a “Party Gras” in downtown Mobile this weekend. The 72nd Annual National Square Dance Convention is taking over the Mobile Convention Center. More than 2,000 ...
On November 12, Square Dance: A Community Project will take over the Trinity River Audubon Center. Funded in part by an Idea Fund Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the ...
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 ...
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 ...