FARGO - Vivid skirts with petticoats were flying and boots were stomping at the Cash Wise Community Center here recently when suddenly the dancing came to a halt. “What happened over here?” square ...

You could say Lila West was born square dancing. In fact, West was born the day after her parents spent the night twirling around a dance floor, and with a deep-rooted family history of dancing, it ...

Consider the square dance, that all-American spectacle of lively tunes. Picture the swirling petticoats and frisky dancers whirling and twirling to the squeals of a fiddle and the directions of a ...

It’d been years — decades, perhaps — since Jim Stuart had been to a square dance at the Taney Center. The small community hub in rural Missouri was built for neighbors to gather, and, at its start, ...

Gys Koops loves square dancing. He knows its origin story that dates back to 1450, he’s traced its roots through the ...