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Advertising Brochure Stressing Health Benefits
IDEA: It is a different approach. I am stressing the health benefits of square dancing. The idea is we will get these rack cards professionally printed. We will buy the ... Read More
Interview Talking Points
Have you ever been asked to give an interview about square dancing? It can often catch you by surprise. This sheet of talking points from Eric Henerlau can help you ... Read More
Success Using Fast Track in Edmonton, Alberta
An account of how using a Fast Track program helped to reinvigorate the Country Sunshiners club ... Read More
Experience Using the Nest System in Calgary, Alberta
The Banff Trailers Club dance every second Saturday, and have New Dancer lessons every Monday night. Each September several New Dancers would join, but due to factors such as illness, ... Read More
Operation Frontier – 2015, Milford, OH
If you think it’s inevitable that square dancing is destined to decline, ask any member of Frontier Squares from Milford, Ohio – and they’ll offer a different opinion ... Read More
Timberline Toppers’ Recruiting Plan
Timberline Toppers in Colorado created a recruiting plan that they used repetitively over a period of several years resulting in a dramatic regrowth of their failing club. In 2005 they ... Read More
Using Yard Signs to Promote Square Dancing
How the Swinging Sugar Squares of Evergreen Park, Ill. effectively used yard signs to attract more interest in their classes ... Read More
Using Hearing Assist System To Slave One Amp To Another (Handout)
This handout from the CDLS session at the 2017 CALLERLAB convention explains how to slave one sound system to another using a hearing assist system. This avoids having to string ... Read More
Lloyd Shaw Foundation
The Lloyd Shaw Foundation preserves and shares a diverse range of dance and music traditions with an inter-generational audience. We develop leadership in traditional dance and music forms, and sponsor ... Read More
Effects of Cognitive Leisure Activity on Cognition in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
This article documents a Japanese study on the effects of engaging in dance activities, or playing musical instruments, in individuals displaying symptoms of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Their overall conclusion: ... Read More
Keith Rubow’s Dance Recordings Site
This site permits you to purchase recorded dances done by a variety of callers as well as some special festivals such as AACE, PACE Extravaganza, and Heartland. In addition there ... Read More
Dancing For Your Health
This newsletter article describes some studies and articles that discuss the health benefits of dancing ... Read More
CALLERLAB Online Teaching Resource
The Choreographic Applications Committee has created this resource site to assist those who are teaching square dancers. Its intent is to collect in one place all the information about each ... Read More
SqView Music Management Program
SqView is a music management program for callers, cuers and line dance leaders. It is specifically designed for the music management and performance needs of those groups. The program also ... Read More
Minnesota Promotional Website
This Minnesota website is an example that promotes MWSD and serves as an entry point for people who are interested in learning to dance ... Read More
Call Analysis Sheets
In order to design choreography callers must have an intimate knowledge of the characteristics of each call they use. The purpose of a Call Analysis Sheet is to provide a ... Read More
Ocean Wave Resolves From Cal Campbell
This two-page document from Cal Campbell explains two different procedures for resolving a square from ocean waves ... Read More
USDA COVID-19 Letter
The United Square Dancers of America published this open letter with guidance on handling dances during and after the COVID-19 pandemic ... Read More
Cuesta Squares: A Social Success
This is the story of Cuesta Squares which is an LGBTQ club that dances in San Luis Obispo, CA. It is different in that it is told by a new ... Read More
Want To Develop Your Dancing Skill? Start A Club!
This is the story of some people who wanted to hone their dancing skills, and formed a club to help them do it ... Read More
Clark Baker Discusses Hexagon Dancing
The pandemic spawned a multitude of online tutorial sessions for callers. In this video presentation Clark Baker discusses the theory and practice of hexagon dancing ... Read More
Dottie Welch’s Singing Call Figure Collection
Dottie Welch has amassed a large collection of singing call figures on her website. They are organized by level (Community Dance through A2) and housed in individual PDF files. Within ... Read More
Cal Campbell’s Singing Call Collection
Cal Campbell has organized a collection of singing calls and documented them in the form of three Excel spreadsheets: Basic Part 2, Basic Part 3, and Mainstream. In all there ... Read More
Breaking Bread and Building Connections
As square dancers, we know that food unites. Breaking bread together is one of the oldest forms of community interaction. It provides a valuable time and place to socially connect ... Read More
Definitions for partially inclusive dancing – Dancing for Everybody
Birgit Rudolf has created a special set of Basic and Mainstream definitions that include information about how calls can be executed by dancers with mobility or sensory challenges ... Read More