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Hints For Dancing Load The Boat
Ed Foote provides some hints about dancing Load The Boat successfully ... Read More
Hints For Dancing Peel Off
Ed Foote provides some hints about dancing Load The Boat successfully ... Read More
Hints For Dancing Spin Chain and Exchange the Gears
Ed Foote provides some hints about dancing Spin Chain and Exchange the Gears successfully ... Read More
Hints For Dancing Wheel Thru
Ed Foote provides some hints about dancing Wheel Thru successfully ... Read More
Corona Learning Assistance Seminar Series (CLASS)
During the COVID-19 pandemic all callers suddenly found themselves with lots of time on their hands. Jeremy Butler and Ted Lizotte decided to use some of that time productively and ... 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
United Square Dancers of America (USDA)
The UNITED SQUARE DANCERS OF AMERICA, INC. (USDA) was formed on June 26, 1981, during the National Square Dance Convention held in Seattle, Washington, and has grown to the size ... Read More
Ideas for Creating Social Connections
Cory Geishauser provides some ideas for stimulating socialization by getting people to ask questions about each other ... Read More
Saddlebrook Square Dance Teaching Videos
Saddlebrook Squares of Tucson, AZ and their caller Larry Kraber have made and excellent set of teaching videos for the Mainstream and Plus programs. These videos are available online or ... Read More
Milestone Award Winners
The Milestone is one of CALLERLAB's most prestigious awards. To be eligible for the Milestone one must have worked in an uncharted field of square dancing and effected positive change ... 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
Welcoming Dance Environment Documentation
Square Dancing is an overwhelmingly social activity. Therefore, it is essential that square dance groups create a social environment that feels welcoming, engaging, and safe. Events in recent years have ... 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
Just Another Square Dance Caller (Book)
This book is an authorized biography of a true square dance legend: Marshall Flippo ... Read More
Save Square Dancing With SSD
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 ... Read More
Two-Person (Minimal Phantoms) Square Dancing
Bob & Dorothy Simpson and Darby Love, in Nanaimo, BC created a whole series of videos they titled “Dancing In The Garage”. They are aimed at people who can't assemble ... Read More
The How & Why of New Basics
This paper by Paul Hartman appeared in American Square Dance magazine in 1974. It describes how square dancing evolved to become what we now call Modern Western Square Dancing during ... Read More
Planning To Implement SSD
During the pandemic a long series of online seminars called the Corona Learning Assistance Seminar Series (C.L.A.S.S) was presented. One of them, delivered by Jeremy Butler, explained the planning and ... Read More
64th US National Keynote by Ted Lizotte and Paul Cote
This article contains a link to the inspiring keynote presentation Ted Lizotte and Paul Cote gave at the 64th NSDC in 2015 ... Read More
Building For Tomorrow
This presentation handout contains details from the education session delivered by Mike Hogan and Justin Russell on strategies for rebuilding ... Read More
Newbie Callers Zoom Discussions
During the COVID-19 pandemic all callers suddenly found themselves with lots of time on their hands. Jeremy Butler and Ted Lizotte decided to use some of that time productively and ... Read More
Partners’ Committee Handbook
This booklet is a compilation of the most frequently asked questions pertaining to partners and their individual responsibilities ... Read More
Kip Garvey Discusses Sequence and Relationship
Kip Garvey, a world-class caller, caller coach, and recording artist presents three documents discussing various elements of FASR (Formation, Arrangement, Sequence, Relationship) ... Read More
Don Beck Discusses Smooth Dancing
The pandemic spawned a multitude of online tutorial sessions for callers. In this 20-minute video Don Beck discusses the elements of smooth dancing and how to create 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