Nice, positive, well-researched article on square dancing: Las Vegas SUN: Partner Up: Las Vegas square dancers are one big family’. It even quotes Jerry Reed, from CALLERLAB. It talks honestly about the decline in numbers, and ties it in with a larger societal decline in community activities, even mentioning Bowling Alone, by Robert Putnam.

This is a cute site for a Japanese square dance club, the Chiyoda Square Dance Club. I normally don’t like animation, but this page uses animation in a way that shows square dancing. At first, the words are synched up with the animations of the four squares, but if you let it play for a while, the dancers get ahead of the caller. Of course, we’ve never seen that before….