SSD (Social Square Dancing) is one of those “new” things that has been around for a long time but is now starting to be noticed and implemented widely. SSD evolved to address the recruitment and retention issues that have developed over the past decades. But its approach and design makes even more sense in this “age of the pandemic”. This story by two of SSD's most prominent practitioners goes over the rationale and usage of the system and how it has been shown to address square dancing's most prominent problem.