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 ...

The gay square dancers are group-hugging again. This time, it's to the last notes of a honky-tonkified version of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" blaring on the borrowed stereo system, and they're ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Swing your partner and dosey-do. September is National Square Dance Month. Like the culture it came from, square dance has roots in European, Native American and African practices. Square dancing ...

Chip takes a turn at Carcassonne Square Dance. The square dance is a tradition known all across America. And in a tiny town in Eastern Kentucky, a community center claims the title of the ...