Experience Modern Square Dancing
Modern Square Dance is different from the traditional style where dancers memorize fixed routines. Instead, a live caller creates each dance on the spot by linking together individual calls. These moves are the basic building blocks of square dance choreography. Dancers work in groups of eight (four couples), listening and moving together to follow the caller’s directions in real time. The result is a lively, fresh experience where teamwork and quick reactions keep the square in motion.
How Can I Learn to Square Dance?
There are many ways to learn square dancing, from online videos to in-person lessons or joining a local club. Rainier Council offers everything you need to go from beginner to master dancer. Even if you think you have two left feet, if you can walk, you can square dance. Mistakes are part of the fun, and the best thing you can do, is to keep going! Square dance is all about enjoying yourself, meeting new people, and building community through shared movement and laughter.
Rainier Council has many resources for finding out more information. You can look at our calendar to find up-coming dances, browse around the resources page, dive into the history of our council, or check out our clubs in the Pierce & South King Counties. If you want to more about square dance in general, you can click here to read all about it.
If you’re a younger dancer looking for a club, join Jacks & Jills – Rainier Council’s competitive teen club! Even if competing doesn’t interest you, Jacks & Jills hold lessons for Square, Round, and Line dancing every Sunday during the Fall and Winter seasons.
Every year Jacks & Jills compete against other youth clubs across the Pacific Northwest at the Pacific Northwest Teen Square Dance Festival. If you want to watch videos from previous competitions, click here for Displays or click here for Mysteries.
For more videos and photos, you can go to our Facebook page or look at our photo gallery.
If you want to get in touch with us, click here! We have contacts for all club representatives.
Want to dance but you’re not in our area? Check out our friends to the North or South! Click here for the Washington State website.