Square Dancing Is Back at Cooinda SA!

      A new square dance club IC Squares has emerged in Adelaide, South Australia and is looking for new dancers.  Don Newberry (treasurer) has been associated with the Cooinda Neighbourhood Centre for many years and commenced square dancing there in 1988 when Colin Dandridge called there.  Since that time a few callers  have operated out of... read more

Come and Try Square Dancing

The Wild Frontier Square Dance Club is offering non square dancers the chance to come and try on sunday 22nd March 2:00PM to 6:00 PM See the advertisement below or go to http://wildfrontiersquaredanceclubinc.com/learn/ for additional information. ... read more

Dancing Alone

The steady erosion in Square Dance membership is of concern to us all. In doing research into ways to fight the trend, I discovered that Robert D. Putnam, a political scientist at Harvard University, has studied a more general form of the problem and has produced several books on the topic. His “Bowling Alone” was published in 2000 and offers... read more

The Goolwa Paddle Steamer Squares

Here I sit inside my caravan annex writing this article whilst the welcome rain continues to pour down, it's been raining steadily for about 4 hours now.  I say the rain is welcome because Adelaide is experiencing its worst drought in 30 years; the grass is brown our gardens are barren and many of the trees in our parks and streets have died.   ... read more

Learn How to Square Dance

Teach yourself How to Square Dance Recently I was able to view the Mainstream and Plus square dance lesson DVD's produced by the Traveling Hoedowners, a group of square dancing enthusiasts. I'm pleased to say that they exceeded my expectations. Each DVD comes in a strong plastic cover along with an index to the calls and an associated CallerLab lis... read more

Square Dance Lessons on DVD

Square Dance Lessons on Video Searching on YouTube for Plus video lessons I came across an excellent video lesson by the Traveling Hoedowners from Florida. The high standard of the video left the dozens of other videos on YouTube for dust. I was looking for something to help me remember the Plus moves that Jeff Seidel has been teaching us in Wil... read more