PHILADELPHIA (AP) — There wasn’t a crinoline in sight as 850 square dancers at the International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs opened its annual convention last week in a Philadelphia hotel, ...

Swing your partner and dosey-do. September is National Square Dance Month. Like the culture it came from, square dance has roots in European, Native American and African practices. Square dancing ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. – Between the hoots and hollers of square dancing and the soundtrack of live folk music, sounds of laughter become contagious among those connecting with one another. “Get back home and ...

When it comes back to recalling memories from our public school days, some are easier to recall than others. But how many of us are still shuddering at having to randomly remember how to square dance ...

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 ...