Why square dance?
(from George Weller)

1. Dancers have to learn to listen. You have to hear the call to do it.
2. It keeps your mind sharp. There is rarely a set dance pattern as calls are randomly called during a dance. Although there are only 75 calls you learn to graduate and dance at the Mainstream level, there are several thousand calls possible beginning with Plus and going through Advanced(A1, A2) and Challenge(C1,2,3,4). According to Quirks and Quarks such dancing can reduce cognitive decline by 10 to 15 years.
3. It’s cooperative. If one of the 8 dancers in a set has trouble, another one must immediately help, or their set stops dancing and has to wait to get back dancing.
4. It’s good exercise. If you dance at three miles per hour for three hours for an evening, you probably dance eight or nine miles.
5. It’s friendship set to music. It’s one activity you attend where everyone is smiling and having a good time. It’s a psychological, emotional boost. On average it has been found that square dancers live 10 years longer.
6. It’s international with clubs all over the world, and universal as all calls are the same worldwide while the song words are in the country’s native language. There are clubs in your neighborhood, and you are welcomed worldwide and can join in even if you do not speak their language.

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