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 ...

Little Rock's Robinson Center Exhibition Hall is packed, so crowded that extra seats have to be put out. Many in the predominantly older audience are wearing traditional square dance attire -- ruffled ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

This July 3, 2019 photo shows Marge Coahran, left, of Toronto, and Scott Amspoker Albuquerque, N.M., calling to dancers during the annual International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs convention ...

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 ...

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, ...