www.dosado.com - This site provides links to almost all other square dance sites.
HANHURST'S Tape and Record Service - A site where you can buy square and round dance music, books, amplification equipment and more. You can find old and new music by title, caller or record label and hear samples of much of the music. There is also a list of the best selling music by month and year.
Hear-2-Dance - This site describes the components of a relatively inexpensive system to help hearing impaired dancers hear callers and music at square dances.
www.netstate.com/states/symb/dances/nj_square_dance.htm - In the 80's the Square Dance Council of New Jersey was instrumental in having the square dance proclaimed as the American Folk Dance of the state of New Jersey. This site gives some background and has the text of the proclamation. It also has pointers to other information about the history of square dancing.
www.callerlab.org - The site of the international Association of Square Dance Callers which holds (among other things) the widely accepted lists of calls that are in the Mainstream, Plus, A-1, A-2, C-1, C-2 and C-3A square dance programs.
www.roundalab.org - The site of the international Association of Round Dance Teachers, Inc. which holds all kinds of information about round dancing, and information needed by round dance leaders. Material can be purchased which lists the actions, movements and figures which round dancers learn in each phase of the 6 phase round dance program.
1-877-Y-I-DANCE - The site supplied by Roundalab provides a toll free
number ( 1-877-943-2623 ) which can be used to find a round dance in most areas where people are traveling. This number can also be used to find a new dancer dance in your area.
Cue Sheets - This German site provides cue sheets for hundreds of Round Dances
Lloyd Shaw Foundation Catalogue - This site has a catalogue of Foundation music which contains contra dances, square dances, and folk dances. Kits for school can be ordered, individual records can be ordered and custom CDs containing multiple tunes you request can be ordered for $20. Also by clicking on the tunes you can see the cue sheets for most of the music.
www.penrod-sq-dancing.com/program.html -
Jim Penrod's Main stream program page which provides the list of mainstream calls, animations to show how they are done, and teaching tips for callers. Many other resources can be found on the site.
www.ceder.net/ - Vic and Debbie Ceder's Square Dance Resource Net. This site has many valuable pages including lists of singing and patter calls, which callers and record companies recorded them, and cue sheets to replace those that have been lost.
www.americancallers.com - The web site of the American Callers Association which contains, among other things, the list of calls in their "1"floor program.
www.squaredancingrochester.org/RAF.html - Site of the Rochester Area Federation of Western Square and Round Dance Clubs. There site has links to all dancing in the Rochester, New York area and many surrounding areas. Great information for summer or winter vacations.
www.usda.org - United Square Dancers of America, the "only national dancer's association organized by dancers for dancers and operated by dancers". The Square Dance Council of New Jersey is a member.
www.americansquaredance.com/ - American Square Dance magazine, an international monthly publication which covers all aspects of square dancing.
http://www.squaredance.ws/index.html - Northeast Square Dancer Magazine, visit them and find out what's happening in New England and find a dance for the next time you travel there.
Web MD article on the benefits of square dancing, June 2006.
Square Dance "patter sayings", the words which fill out a call. There are over 100 on the Ceder site.
