Check out this great article on square dancing with Tech Squares at MIT.

Students love the dance, they say, because it’s not just dancing it’s thinking on your feet. And, they say, it’s aerobic exercise, a great way to socialize, teaches teamwork and how to listen, and is good wholesome fun.

And here’s another article from a small town newspaper (they’re so local, they don’t even bother to tell us where they’re at…I think they’re out of Greensville, South Carolina).

“Square dancing is a problem-solving activity,” he said. “At each level (of difficulty) you learn a certain number of calls. We are at roughly level seven and we are expected to know 350 to 400 calls. A lot of the calls are very similar. The truly interesting thing to me is when the caller calls the call and you have to execute that call from a position that you didn’t know you could execute it from. One of the original terms was ‘sets in motion.’ You have various geometric patterns that are constantly moving and changing.”