When the National Square Dance Convention last came to Milwaukee in 1979, about 20,000 people clapped, tapped and twirled their way across the dance floor. There's fewer square dance partners to swing ...
They come in jeans and knit ski caps. Shiny cowboy shirts with scorpion bolo ties. Or in pressed suits just from the office. In churches, recreation centers and private basements throughout the Bay ...
At its most basic level, square dancing requires only a couple of things: eight people who can form a square and a shared language. It's a language that doesn't care about gender or politics. "It's ...
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 ...
For 50 years, Wranglers Square Dance Club members have been doing the promenade, do si do and other dance moves in Rancho Bernardo. The current 67 members — about half are RB residents — and other ...
I’m not sure if you have written about this but if not, I wanted to ask you about an old barn on the west side of Nacogdoches Road, north of Loop 410 and a bit south of (I think) MacArthur View. When ...
While you are passing time, does it ever occur to you the time is passing? Precious time! Time that will never be again. Time itself is infinite, but our time is rationed. I often reflect on the time ...
Detroit music fans are notorious non-dancers. You may see a room packed with millenials watching a tremendous band rocking out, but you will be watching a crowd of bushy-bearded guys and stylishly ...
The strains of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” are pulsing, and the dance floor is packed. “There’s a fire starting in my heart reaching a fever pitch and it’s bringing me out the dark” Allemande left, ...