Square-dancing has been part of American social life for centuries. This American folk dance is the product of traditional dances that have gone through many changes over the years, but the main form ...

The Swinging Mates’ feet still moved as beautifully to the music’s beat as a lyric poet’s rhyme. More than 100 modern Western square dancers stepped to their caller’s cadence, dazzling the crowd as ...

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MILTON-FREEWATER — The Muddy Frogs Square Dance Club is inviting the public to its open house and introduction to modern Western square dance. The free event is Sunday, Jan. 7, 2-4 p.m. in the ...

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 ...

LIMA — In the good old days of early 1941, as Americans made the most of a nervous peace in the final months before Pearl Harbor changed everything, 59-year-old Bill Hodde, “Lima’s Old Dance Man,” ...

Modern Western Square Dance is not like the square dancing you did in school! MWSD is fun and fast, and with "gay" styling not found at most straight identified clubs, it is very joyful as well!