Note from Brian: This article was written by a friend of mine and a fellow square dancer.  Thanks Dale!
WHY DO WE CALL IT SQUARE DANCE “LESSONS”?
 I have talked to many, many non-square dancers about taking “lessons,” and the majority of the time I get the same answers:  ”don’t have time,”  ”had that in school”; but [...]

Note from Brian: This is another article from Ken and Dee.  Some of what it talks about is about Minnesota square dancing but it will work anywhere.
Recruit and retain? Like any good business, square and round dancing needs to keep its current dancers (customers) as well as attract new ones.  As we all know, it [...]

Note from Brian: This is another article written by Ken and Dee.
Are you out promoting square dancing? Round dancing? How do you promote square and round dancing?  When and where do you promote dancing?
Are you promoting the WHOLE activity?  Square or round dancing in general or just your club?  Do you dance everywhere or just [...]

Note from Brian: Dee and Ken are friends of mine and they are also the 2009-2010 Promotion Directors for the Square Dance Federation of Minnesota.  Every month Dee writes an article for The ROUNDUP, which is our monthly magazine.  This is one of her articles.  My thanks to her so that I could publish it.
The [...]

I hit a wall at the Ar-Dale lessons tonight.  It wasn’t them, I think it was me and I think the reason was I was not explaining the calls well enough.  We had a hard time with Square Through.  Maybe this is just part of the learning process that it takes to teach someone to [...]

I was afraid that no one would show up but six squares came to the dance at TTT Dance in Roseville, MN including friends from theBloomington Swirlers (the club we dance with).  I had a blast calling with Bob Maiden.  My patter still needs a lot of work but the singing calls are getting easier.  [...]

I had fun at the Minnesota State Fair Today.  The Square Dance Federation of Minnesota was asked to do some dancing for 10 out of the 12 days this year.  We are at the stage right outside the Education Building a couple times per day.
Mike Driscoll, Bob Maiden and I were the callers today and [...]

I am going to wrap up this series with some food for thought so in case I have not convinced you to give it a try here’s some more reasons:
1) It is a great way to exercise.  Square Dancing is endorsed  by the American Heart Association.  In a typical dance you will walk 3-5 mile.  [...]

This post came courtesy of the guy I call my best friend.  I am not going to use any names but his initials are KL.  We were talking on Friday night and I told him that if he and his wife had nothing to do on Saturday Morning they should come over to the studio [...]

This week I am going to talk about just how long does it take to learn to square dance.  About 5 minutes.  No really, about 5 minutes.  Now in that 5 minutes you would only know about two square dance calls, probably Circle Left and Circle Right.  The rest of the story goes like this: [...]