Below are a number of square dance links that you might find useful
MCASD – The Metropolitan Chicago Association of Square Dancers (MCASD) website provides information about square dance clubs and club dances in the greater Chicago area.
UCansquaredance – The site by MCASD to recruit new dancers to the activity of square dancing in the metro Chicago area.
www.usda.org – United Square Dancers of America, the “only national dancer’s association organized by dancers for dancers and operated by dancers.”
National Square Dance Convention® – The National Square Dance Convention ® (NSDC) is an annual event occurring in late June. The convention location is moved each year from city to city, based on a bidding process. Bids are presented at the annual convention and typically awarded for four years in the future.
- 73rd National Square Dance Convention® – June 26th through 29th, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- 74th National Square Dance Convention® – June 25th through 28th, 2025 in Shreveport, Louisiana
- 75th National Square Dance Convention® – June 24th through 27th, 2026 in Waco, Texas
Where’s The Dance? – A website to find dances and activities related to square dancing, clogging, contra dancing, line dancing, and round dancing.
www.callerlab.org – The site of the international Association of Square Dance Callers which holds (among other things) the widely accepted lists of calls that are in the Mainstream, Plus, A-1, A-2, C-1, C-2 and C-3A square dance programs.
www.ceder.net/ – Vic and Debbie Ceder’s Square Dance Resource Net. This site has many valuable pages including lists of singing and patter calls, which callers and record companies recorded them, and cue sheets to replace those that have been lost.
www.americansquaredance.com/ – American Square Dance magazine, an international monthly publication which covers all aspects of square dancing.
www.roundalab.org – The site of the international Association of Round Dance Teachers, Inc. which holds all kinds of information about round dancing, and information needed by round dance leaders. Material can be purchased which lists the actions, movements and figures which round dancers learn in each phase of the 6 phase round dance program.
Cue Sheets [round-dance.de] – This German site provides cue sheets for hundreds of Round Dances
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