FARGO - Vivid skirts with petticoats were flying and boots were stomping at the Cash Wise Community Center here recently when suddenly the dancing came to a halt. “What happened over here?” square ...

"Burnin', burnin'. Doin' the Neutron Dance," Roger McNeil sings as he calls a square dance for the L&M Squares on Tuesday night in the Fargo Cashwise Community Room. He wears the blue glasses for the ...

"Turn that girl. Lines pass through. Square-two-three, pass through -- smile as you do," Virgil Forbes instructed, his smooth voice amplified by the microphone he held. He stood next to his record ...

Hundreds of thousands of people square dance. But few people become callers, whose individualized, rhythmic patter directs the dancers into their choreographed moves. When Lawrence F. Dunn was first ...

About 100 of the world's most experienced square-dancers showed off their best do-si-dos, promenades and allemande lefts as they kicked off a four-day Callerlab convention Sunday in the Conference and ...

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To the strains of "Swing your partner! Promenade!" some 30-plus members of the Circle and Swing square dance group respond to longtime caller Lonnie Gustafson. "They're a very special group," he ...

Dancers spun and stepped around and around this week as part of a statewide celebration of square and round dancing. Thursday was the start of the 60th annual Texas State Square and Round Dance ...

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 ...

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 ...