Square dancing

The Okanagan Valley, very much including Penticton, is renowned the world over for it's longstanding history of growing some of the most sc...

A group of revellers jive dancing in Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village, New York.

The movements and calls you need to know before you step onto the dance floor There's more to square dancing than swingin' your partner round and round, though that's definitely a big part of it. The traditional dance style dates back to...

Learn the basic easy steps to square dance from the professionals!

It's a centuries-old tradition with a wild history and deep New England roots. We're talking about American country dancing, including contra dance. We'll…

Years ago, in High School, I dated Paula, who liked square dancing. So, most Saturday nights we were down at the community center, she in her petticoats and dress, I in my jeans, button down western shirt with a scarf tie and hand towel. Square dancing has some basic moves that beginners learn. And so … Continue reading "What Can Square Dancing Teach Us About the Church?"

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Late 1950s Square Dancing couple....

Capitalizing on the mid-1950s nostalgia for a lost vision of the American heartland, William Medcalf presents a view of a 19th century midwest barn dance, with smiling couples who appear plucked straight of out of the 1955 Academy Award winning musical Oklahoma!. This large, colorful, highly expressive oil on board with graphite highlights was created as the final preliminary painting for a published Brown & Bigelow calendar image. During the 50s, Bil Medcalf was known as one of the…