It’s Sunday evening and dozens of people are ping-ponging around the room at Berkeley’s Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center. It’s the end of a three-day traveling music festival called “Dare to Be ...
There was a time when Henry Ford weaponized square dancing to fight the growth of jazz music, which he claimed was a Jewish attempt to subvert wholesome American culture. The Detroit Square Dance ...
CAMBRIDGE — The Dorchester Square Dance Club is a lively bunch who enjoy each other’s company just as much as they enjoy dancing. You must be logged in to react. Click any reaction to login. You must ...
Marilyn Applebey has been square dancing for 48 years. And at 92, she does not plan to stop anytime soon. “It keeps your mind going, it keeps your body going and you have a lot of fun,” said the South ...
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 ...
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 ...
SHREVEPORT, La. -- Shreveport is swinging into action this week as the city hosts the National Square Dancers Convention at the Shreveport Convention Center. The annual event draws dancers, vendors, ...