square dancing
Do-si-do activity
Square dancing is a folk dance in which four couples arrange themselves in a square and execute figures as directed by a caller: do-si-do, promenade, swing your partner.
The caller chants or sings instructions to music, typically country or bluegrass.
Square dancing is associated with rural American culture and is sometimes taught in schools.
- hoedownLively rural dance gathering
- allemandeYolk-thickened mother sauce
- callerOne who phones
- bluegrassAcoustic Appalachian folk music
- country musicRural Southern folk-pop genre
old time music · dosado · swing your partner · dance · contra · clogging · promenade · formation · barn · country · partners · sashay · community events · quadrille · swing · string band · set · curtsy
- danceballet, breaking, folk dances, b-boying, folk dance
- pastimeshobbies, amusement, puzzles, cards, crafting
- Chinese cultureConfucianism, Chinese calligraphy, Beijing, Chinese New Year, Daoism
- American dancesCharleston, twist, jitterbug, cakewalk, lindy hop
- American traditionsFourth of July, Thanksgiving, county fair, state fair, rodeo
- county fairferris wheel, cotton candy, carousel, funnel cake, corn dogs
square dancingballroom dancing
Formal partnered dance styles
tango · salsa · ballet · interpretive dance · cotillion
square dancinggrinding
Molar action sometimes
twerking · bump and grind · pole dancing · belly dancing · breakdancing