The music is what you hear first, swirling throughout the spacious room, punctuated by the tap of feet. Then come the dancing figures, advancing and retreating, turning in circles, dipping in and out ...

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 ...

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 ...

For 50 years, Wranglers Square Dance Club members have been doing the promenade, do si do and other dance moves in Rancho Bernardo. The current 67 members — about half are RB residents — and other ...

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 ...

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 ...

While Russia has many folk dancers, traditional American square dance is a real novelty here. A two-year-old Moscow Club has garnered some international attention. Alsu Alyusheva, a young Muscovite, ...

Members of a troupe at a cultural center in Beijing's Xicheng district practice square dance in a park on Sept 8. TAI SICONG/XINHUA Decked out in fancy attire, Li Fengwei and her teammates have been ...