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Need me a white wife, Hell yeah

I did it a long time ago learned it and I went to the national square dance convention in San Antonio

I did it a long time ag

great, vic ! from germany ❤

Thank you Robert! This is super helpful!

Wow. This is complicated! My ex-wife and I took lessons something like 40 years ago, but we were barely passed the beginner stage. This is WAY beyond what we were doing. So much fun!

10 Years Square Dance and Round Dance was wonderful !!!

Great video

Guy in denim jeans....he’s out for a stroll

Hot mess

My bride and I have been taking classes for a few months now and we are going to graduate next week. I'm surprised I'm having so much fun now. At the start it was really hard work, but now we are starting to 'know' the steps and not have to think about them so much. It was interesting that I can do all those calls. But what about the speed of the caller? It seems like he is just firing off calls as fast as he can to try to trip up the square rather than following any sort of cadence.

When I log in & have the unlocked lock & pull up my club's schedule, I do not see the edit symbols. Steve (Scootbacks). 8/29/2019

Where to go from here?

I just recently started taking lessons and this makes me want to keep on learning. This group did so great! The ladies look really nice. I specially enjoyed watching the redhead here wearing the black blouse and the blue skirt.

There are two callers calling. One is most definitely Randy Dougherty. The other is probably Tony Oxendine.

Thank you. Worked as shown.

I love square dancing. I wish I could have been there.

Squarin is a blast and lots of energy. Love it!

I love square dancing. I belong to a club in Nottingham but have also danced in several other cities. I'd love to travel and visit clubs in other countries. It's a shame that there are so few in France considering the historical importance of French square dances such as the cotillion. I'd urge anyone to give it a go. Clubs usually admit beginners in September to their Mainstream courses.

where do i find the spreasd sheet to start?

That was worth every minute of watching!

LOL, I just typed in the search box "how to square dance"... I think I should have included the word "beginner", because while this was wildly entertaining it was WAY beyond my 'skill' level... haaaaaaaaaaaaa! I also just asked my boyfriend if he would take square dancing lessons with me. He laughed. Hummmm. I think I really just want to wear a cute skirt with a petticoat and bounce around in it. Thinking....

the new stuff is certainly a help with keeping square dancing in the public eye as well as making dancers keep paying attention. Still, even mainstream demands a vigilance, but making it too easy to perform does square dancing a DISSERVICE. I have square danced for 62 years and feel it needs a commitment to the art in order to make people join and support a club.

I never noticed the 'peel off' mentioned earlier, but even without that it was still *mainly* Mainstream as a half-sashayed eight-chain thru was called and courtesy turn at Mainstream is limited to 'normal' couples with the boy on the left - notwithstanding, an excellent and entertaining tip giving many ideas (one of which I will be using with my club tonight lol)

Caller gives a lot of tips, but still hard.

i dont recognize many of these calls, I only did mainstream, they sound like plus. I love square dancing, it is a good old tradition. I havnt dont it in many many years though.

5:23 :D

Whatever... There are lots of peeps doing stuff that is older and beyond your realm. If you don't like it or appreciate it... don't watch it! Personally, I think it's cool that some of the older generation is doing these activities, it is inspiration to me. It is out of my time but the Grand Ole Opery is still going and I hope it goes forever. I hope some old traditions do as well. Funny thing, in this day trends only last a few months or a year... the best ones last generations!!!

Square dancing was so hard, but so fun for me as a child. Now I just kind of do the moves on my own at home sometimes because of how fun it is to just keep moving and twirling. I fondly remember doing the Texas two-step in elementary school when I was growing up in Houston... good times.

Learning to follow square dancing calls is good excercise for the brain.

I've never done a Boys Face/Girls Face Grand Square. Looks like fun, and I'll have to ask our Caller to do that one at our next DBD lesson!

At one time I danced at C3 It was very stressfull but I figured i had to dance 2 levels above the level I called and taught. Now I am happier just dancing, I love students but I do wish that all Plus level dances were plus and all mainstream dances were mainstream. I refused to call a split level for years, It hurt my bookings but I held my own principles. The dancers who followed me around new i made any level challenging but my aim was to get every dancer to succeed at one level!!

That is so cool. Anyone in the UK up for one of these competitions? I'd love to have a go at it.

Class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome!

I have been to a square dance with modern music.

Absolutely Right, I used to dance C2 but it is not as much fun as dancing Mainstream and Plus DBD. At the Lower levels the emphasis is on Dance that I Love

I started square dancing in 73' in a teen group. Then went into a adult club when I turned 18. That is where I met my first wife. My parents and my 3 younger sisters were all involved in square dancing. My uncle was a caller. He would have us at his house trying new configurations and we would enjoy the fun. I miss those days. There is only 2 clubs left in the area.

All but "peel off". Maybe it was a slip up...

I dance mainstream through C1, and I still enjoy the plus level the most. Dancing the higher levels did in fact make me a stronger dancer, especially at the lower levels, so your theory is incorrect. Not all of us high-level dancers are snobs who think we are better than everyone else. The reason I don't do the competition is because it usually conflicts with another caller time slot that I want to dance.

You know what? I like this whole idea!!!!! There are some younger dancers in this video. I have been square dancing and calling for 40 some years. We are dying because there are not enough young dancers invovled. We have become a very boring senior citizen dance because of all the staleness of our dance. We need exciting things like this and it might bring younger dancers in.

I was actually part of the cometition, my team finished 5th. And we are plus dancers and i believe the competition was quite fair. And to top it off our children was the team that finished third. A little comeptition by the way never hurt anybody. Its all in fun. I had blast! Our kids compete every year in the Pacific Northwest Teen Festivel. I sorta wish they had for adults more often.

Square dancing isn't about competition. I don't care if it's mainstream or plus. If you want to do the challenge that's fine. there are people that i have said that get upset because you make a mistake. If they don't like it, then maybe they need to find another hobby. It's just a dance. I'll bet you have corrected some people in your time. It's not your place to correct anybody at a dance. You aren't the square dance police. Just go out and enjoy the dancing. That's all it is.

Interesting viewpoint. Do note that every call in that competition is a Mainstream call. Yet all of the dancers in the winning square all dance at the Challenge level. Doesn't that kind of go against your thoughts that 'they believe they will be better dancers by doing the high level stuff'? Dancers who dance at the higher level enjoy the challenge of additional calls from non-typical positions. They enjoy all levels of dance. Else why would they enter a Mainstream competition? Fun for everyone

square dance competition? square dancing is a dying art. this is one thing that it doesn't need. I don't care if it's the dancers against the callers. all you're doing is just dancing. have you ever noticed that the people that do the high level dancing or the dbd, it changes them. they believe they will be a better dancer by doing the high level stuff. you will not be any better or worse. they also turn they noses up at other people just because they don't do this type of dancing.

This was a fun video to watch. I was not able to make it to see this little event while at Nationals. There is a "teen" square dance competition in the Northwest USA. It is for those ages 6 to 21 and includes square dancing, round dancing, and exhibition. Randy Dougherty tried doing he 3x3 flutter wheel in the DBD hall and it dropped the floor basically.

Who's the caller? That's hard work calling at that speed for 15 minutes!

Actually, I don't think he was using the challenge definition of "start". He called "boys start, all finish, split circulate twice". Given that he expected to be able to call Ferris Wheel after that (and beat you up for doing a Wheel and Deal instead), I'm guessing he intended "everyone split circulate twice, but boys move first so nobody gets hurt" -- effectively a Reverse the Pass. At least that's what he cued when he did overs on it.

The square is (couple 1) C. Scott Ananian & Jessica Wong, (couple 2) Marvin Fishman & Debbie Stopp, (couple 3) Lynn Allen & Stephanie Henerlau, (couple 4) Bill Ackerman & Heidi Heffron. Things to look for: consistently using the challenge definition of "start" for "boys start, circulate twice"; my almost breaking down on pre-Mainstream "Mars and Venus", general confusion on "heads wheel around" when head boys are promenading side girls, and totally nailing "half a split circulate, twice" to win.