PORTLAND PUBLIC SQUARE DANCES
EVERY SUNDAY SQUARE DANCE 7-9PM
The Village Ballroom,
700 NE Dekum St, 503-283-1100
All ages welcome – No dancing experience needed
$7, sliding scale available, no maximum!
7:00 – 9:00
PORTLAND CALLERS
(Find dance bands on the “band” page)
Amy Hofer
Zach Hudson
Ned Leager
Maggie Lind
Bill Martin
Stephanie Noll
Caroline Oakley
Jane Palmieri (Montana Jane)
CALLERS FARTHER OUT
(Find dance bands on the “band” page
Truman Price (Monmouth)
John Luna (Corvallis)
VIDEOS
JOHN RAMSAY’S DANCE VIDEO ARCHIVE
DARE TO BE SQUARE, PORTLAND
KENNEDY SCHOOL DANCE, PORTLAND
FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL, SEATTLE
SQUARE DANCING IN SALT LAKE CITY
INDIANA HOUSE DANCE
SQUARE DANCING IN OAKLAND
The fantastic annual old-time square dance immersion for dancers and wannabe callers –
December 12-14. 2009 – Seattle!
http://www.bubbaguitar.com/d2bs/
CLASSES
Portland’s callers are inaugurating an irregular schedule of workshops to help new callers get started, and to allow the experienced callers to work out new dances and figures. We have excellent live music lined up, potluck snacks, no admission charge, but we will need 8-12 volunteer dancers for each 2-hour session. We hope to have a web sign up page soon, but contact nkm@bubbaguitar.com if you want to be a dancer or learn to call dances.
RESOURCES
A Look At Southern Squares ~ Bill Martin’s collection of Southern square dance figures.
Dare To Be Square 2010 dance and workshop notes ~ Bill Martin’s notes and handouts presented at the festival in Seattle.
West Virginia Square Dances ~ An online version of Bob Dalsemer’s great out-of-print collection of dances, histories, stories, including live recordings of square dances in West Virginia.
Hugh Stewart’s Running Sets ~ Briton Hugh Stewart’s fine collection of the old “running set” dance figures.
Old Time Seattle ~ Old-time music and square dancing in Seattle.
Country Dance & Song Society’s collection of square dance video and audio.
LEARN TO PLAY A SCHOTTISCHE – PLEASE?
Take a gander at a whole page meant to encourage oldtime square dance musicians to add a schottische dance tune to their repertoire. Schottisches belong at square dances right alongside waltzes. Did I mention polkas…?