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Welcome to Dancing at Lolo, Montana and the Bitterroot Valley. Our Dance clubs include Square Dancing, Round Dancing (choreographed ballroom), and dance instruction. Our activities include potluck picnics and camping in the summer. Our dancers come from around the world. Our dance styles include modern western square dancing, two-step. waltz, cha, rumba, bolero, tango, and jive.
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What is Square Dancing?
From http://chuckandgerry.com/nsdr.htm
It's A Party ...
Square dancing is party time every time you do it. Square dancing brings people together for fun and fellowship-even when learning how. The fun starts right on the very first night. You meet new people and make new friends. And the fun keeps right on going as long as you do-most square dance groups meet once a week. It's a wonderful way to share common interests with other people, and to escape the worry and pressures of today's busy world.
It's a Challenge...
Modern square dancing is a mental and physical challenge. It is dancing, it is thinking, it is teamwork. You can't do it by one's or two's. Moving in rhythm to the music keeps you physically fit. Reacting quickly to the square dance caller's calls keeps you mentally on your toes. And your team of eight dancers depends on you to keep those toes moving.
Learning the basic steps is easy. Experienced square dance callers teach you the moves and the names of the calls that you dance. You practice those moves until they feel as natural as walking. Then even more fun begins as you join a dub. Your square dance caller combines the basic moves and steps into whole dance patterns. You and your teammates follow the calls-each arm turn brings a surprise-and as the pattern concludes all the arm turns bring you back to your partner.
It's American Folk Art, too...
Modern square dancing has an American heritage. The ancestors of this dance came to America with the earliest settlers. The "traditional" roots of our heritage dance are well established in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, as well as the French Colonies to name a few. Over the centuries it has changed into what we know today as modern square dancing. It is as American as barn raisings, barbecues and ice cream socials. In recent decades square dancing mushroomed in popularity as more and more people got in tune with this traditional art form. Square dancing is still on the move-new dance figures are being added and you never have to worry about being bored with what is sure to become your favorite pastime.
It's the New Generation of Square Dancing...
Perhaps you think you know square dancing from your school days. Well, think again, because this is not your father's dance routine. You will hardly recognize modern square dancing. There is new music, from Golden Oldies to Elvis to current hits. There are new dance steps, exciting new patterns that keep changing, and unique calls to learn. No more rough dancing in the barn. Modern square dancing happens in school halls, dance halls, resorts and cruise ships. Square dancers travel to new places all over the world. Even people who don't speak English square dance! You will find square dance clubs within most countries of the world including Japan, Sweden and Germany-they dance in English, but they don't speak it. Learn to dance and a whole new world of opportunities for fun and fellowship will open up for you.
Its About People From All Walks ...
Square dancers are all kinds of folks sharing a love of action and teamwork. Square dancers are company presidents, secretaries, machinists, farmers, corporals, colonels, doctors, nurses, whatever you think of. When square dancers get together they talk about square dancing. No one knows who's the corporal and who is a colonel. What they want to know about you is can you really dance. That is what matters.
Square dancing is movement to music. It is done in couples, with teams of four couples. It is not a spectator sport. It is for the active in heart and mind. Square dance clubs are ready-made groups of friends. When you travel there are dance clubs to find on every continent, in every country, in every state or province. There is no better way for active, contemporary people to meet each other and build a circle of friends.
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What is Round Dancing?
What is Round Dancing? Choreographed Ballroom Dancing
Choreographed Ballroom Dancing is a unique form of social ballroom dancing. Dancers come together at local clubs and organized functions and clinics throughout the United States and abroad to learn a new dance or two and add it to their repertoire. These dances are choreographed, as a ballet is, to a specific piece of music. The dance routines and dance figures conform predominately to international ballroom standards and consist of all the standard dance rhythms ... Waltz, Rumba, Cha Cha, Foxtrot, Tango, Bolero, Jive, West Coast Swing, etc. Choreographed Ballroom Dancing, sometimes called Round Dancing, has evolved over the past fifty years and has an ever-expanding inventory of over ten thousand choreographed dance routines.
The dancer learns the routines as well as the names of all the dance steps in each rhythm so that when the music is played the couple can follow the cues that are spoken on the microphone by the Cuer, just in time to prompt the next step to be danced. It is this aspect that makes Choreographed Ballroom Dancing especially unique. It is also challenging for the mind as well as the body and a joy to behold as every couple on the floor dances each routine in unison.
This information and more can be viewed at:http://icbda.com/
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Example of Jive rhythm, round dance/choreographed ballroom.
From the International Choreographed Ballroom Dance Association web site http://icbda.com/
Example of Waltz rhythm, round dance/choreographed ballroom.
From the International Choreographed Ballroom Dance Association web site http://icbda.com/
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