While you are passing time, does it ever occur to you the time is passing? Precious time! Time that will never be again. Time itself is infinite, but our time is rationed. I often reflect on the time ...

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 ...

At first glance, a room full of contra dancers looks like mildly organized chaos. But look more closely, and patterns emerge: Four dancers with right hands touching create a spinning star. Long lines ...

I recently returned from the annual Callerlab convention, held this year in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is a gala event where the icons of the square dance industry gather to impress and encourage the ...

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 ...

Square dance caller Calvin "Cal" Golden. Golden's story is preserved at the University of Denver as part of the Carson Brierly Giffin Dance Library. Established in 1972, the library includes materials ...

Lee Kopman, an internationally renowned square dance caller from Wantagh, revolutionized the activity over five decades with his inventive choreography that challenged dancers with new, more ...

Santa’s Swingers Square Dancers and Prospector Squares are looking for someone to call their dances, which happen on the second and fourth Saturdays and Tuesday evenings at the Farthest North Square ...

Retired Navy Master Chief Virgil Forbes was doling out orders at Meade Middle School Friday night. But he wasn’t instructing service members or ROTC cadets. Forbes is the caller for the Swinging ...

Culver Hopkinson Griffin, 92, of Roxbury, a longtime and much loved square dance caller, died at home Nov. 9, 2008. He was born Aug. 4, 1916, in Newton, Mass., to the late Harold and Cornelia ...