Square Dance Fun Facts

                                                       

Healthful Exercise

It's true, you can get your much needed exercise and have fun at the same time by square dancing.   In one study, researchers attached pedometers to square dancers and found each person covered over four miles in a single evening.   You can burn calories, strengthen bones, achieve cardiovascular conditioning and it is fun-time to socialize.

Facts About Modern Square Dancing Today

Square dancing gives you a "great-to-be-alive" feeling by combining a healthy atmosphere and stimulating exercise with FUN and many good times as by-products.   Square dancing is here to stay, as evidenced by an estimated six million dancers dancing regularly in clubs in the US alone.

Anywhere you go in the world, Modern Square Dancing is called in the English language.

The square dancing scene today encompasses several forms of dance that are all part of the American heritage:   round dancing, clogging, line dancing, and contra.

Square Dance Ballet

The New York City Ballet Company was the first to offer Square Dance in a ballet, in 1957.   In this original version, the musicians were placed on stage and a square dancer called out the steps.   In 1976, the ballet was revived, with musicians placed in the pit and there was no caller (a male dancer improvised the caller).   Other ballet companies have since performed the program (Miami and San Francisco).

Greatest Social Mixer

Modern square dancing is the worlds greatest social mixer, using the non-alcoholic stimulants of FUN and FELLOWSHIP.   Modern square dancing's comfortable shuffle step is easily done by people of all ages.

Remember . . . If You Can Walk . . . You Can Square Dance