Thom Kafka's Square Dance Page
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Thom Kafka's Square Dance Page
What is Square Dance?
Dancers always have to form groups of eight to dance together - the
starting formation is a square - that's where the name comes from. When the
Caller is starting the music and giving his commands, the dancers start to
move within their group of eight - and no matter whether there are 16 or
1600: they are all doing the same thing at the same time! And they never
know what comes next - this dance is not to be learnt by heart! To
learn this dance one has to join a class - and there is surely one in
your home area as well!
The calls that we use are standardized worldwide - 
that means that
someone who had been learning this dance can visit any club in the world and join
the group for a night -
"friendship set to music"!
And it's even not a problem of language: outside English speaking countries
you can find many dancers who can hardly speak a full sentence in
English! Instructions in classes are often given in the native language of
the students - but they all learn the English terms for the calls -
so a German dancer can also dance in Japan...
Visit some of my links below - they
will surely lead you to a club close to your home!
