When should we celebrate square dancing?

According to this site, January 24 is Square Dance Day. But according to this listing of Bizarre November Holidays, November 29 is Square Dance Day. November 29 is also listed here: Dancing Days, which includes a lot of other dancing “holidays”, including my favorite on May 14, National Dance Like a Chicken Day.

Almost all of the special events calendars lists November 29 as Square Dance Day. But of course, there can never be too many days to square dance, so we might as well take January 24 also, not to mention the entire month of September, which is International Square Dance Month. And a site for Resident Hall Directors lists September 14 as “Learn to Square Dance” day.

This year, November 29 falls on the Friday after Thanksgiving. If you have a lot of energy, this could be a good day to organize a new dancer dance, write a media press release about an open-to-the-public square dance on Square Dance Day, talk about what a good idea it would be to work off a few of those excess calories from the overindulgence of the day before, and just see if people would come out and have some fun. It might work…