The Farmers and Farmerettes Square
Dance Club is a member of the Northern California Square Dance Association and has been in existence for the past 63 years.
Square Dancing is one of the few dances that
started in America, adapted from the Virginia reel. During the Western migration it traveled with the wagon trains to the west. Square dancing is a smoke free and alcohol free
activity and a lot of fun.
Square dance calls have some common names like “swing your partner” and “circle left”, but there are also some unusual calls that take a while to understand like, “Load the Boat” and “Ferris Wheel”. This is a fun activity that gives you some exercise, some mental challenges like remembering what to do when the caller calls a dance step routine, and interaction with other people both physically and socially.
Square dancing is done the same way around the world, with four couples in one square and a caller who tells them where they are supposed to move. This is a couple’s activity, but we do not care who makes up the couple. The couple can be two people of the same sex or different ages. You can start the class without having a partner.
When you have learned Modern Social Square dance calls you will be able to attend square dance festivals in other areas of the city, county, state, nation or world. The Farmers and Farmerettes dance almost every Wednesday night.
If you can walk you can square dance. There are no complicated dance steps. It’s all about moving within your group of eight dancers on one area of the square dance floor.
Please come down and give Square Dancing a try!
Farmers and Farmerettes
Newark Pavilion
6430 Thornton Ave,
Newark, California 94560
United States
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