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 ...

LIMA — In the good old days of early 1941, as Americans made the most of a nervous peace in the final months before Pearl Harbor changed everything, 59-year-old Bill Hodde, “Lima’s Old Dance Man,” ...

As people grow older, it becomes a challenge to find proper exercise that keeps their bodies active. While finding an exercise that is not too strenuous for an older body can be challenging, there is ...

BRECKSVILLE, Ohio -- Square dancing developed long ago from a mix of English country dances and African-American social dances, with communities getting together in what were originally intended as ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski / Steve Koehle and Carol Graham square dance in the Swinging Squares group meeting at Jaggard United Methodist Church. When it comes to square dancing, it doesn’t ...

The only thing square about square dancing, according to those who do it, is the occasional dance formation, as partners prepare to spin, pivot and step in tune to commands of the caller. It's an ...

Whenever Debbie Dexter tells someone she’s the lesbian president of a gay square dance club, she gets the look. A little smirk, a raised eyebrow--the facial giveaways of disbelief and a barely ...