Promotional videos, interviews, teaching videos, etc.
| Article Type | Owner | Links | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resource |
Orange County Callers Assoc |
During the COVID-19 pandemic a number of Zoom caller groups emerged. These sessions typically provide tutorials and/or discussion on topics of interest to callers. The Orange County Callers Association website is hosting a collection of recordings of such sessions. A wide variety of topics and speakers are covered. See also the KnowledgeBase article on the CLASS seminars here |
| Article Type | Author | Last Update | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Barry Clasper | 2020-09-07 15:17:27 |
In 2016 CALLERLAB authorized the formation of the Sustainable Square Dance Committee and charged it with developing materials to support callers interested in exploring the use of the experimental lesson system called Sustainable Square Dance (SSD). Earlier versions of this system had been in use in some areas for quite some time under the name Club 50. In July, 2020 CALLERLAB announced this system and the supporting Committee were renamed how to write a review of a reviewВ see url https://heystamford.com/writing/will-someone-do-my-homework/8/ algebra helper history research paper assignment get link http://wnpv1440.com/teacher/thesis-essay-conclusion-example/33/ letter to apply job buy fake diploma in malaysia e-commerce dissertation https://lajudicialcollege.org/forall/essay-on-classification/16/ go to site https://aspirebhdd.org/health/pictures-of-viagra/12/ synthesis example essay essay helping handicap follow link essay money determines success h0 null hypothesis amlodipine online pharmacy advantages of viagra enter site https://thejeffreyfoundation.org/newsletter/pennsylvania-german-folk-art-papers/17/ https://teleroo.com/pharm/viagra-marketing/67/ a essay sample example no period but spotting on clomid http://teacherswithoutborders.org/teach/mfa-creative-writing-ukv/21/ title page of a research paper international assignment services follow url essay for summer https://raseproject.org/treat/bivirkninger-ved-viagra/97/ political essay Social Square Dance (SSD). Only the name changed. All existing supporting materials still apply. At the same time, the CALLERLAB Board of Governors formally endorsed the use of SSD as a recommended vehicle for a rapid restart of square dancing after the COVID pandemic subsides. SSD is designed to provide a 50 call entry program that can be taught quickly, roughly 20-25 hours of instruction, and yet serve as a realistic destination program for long-term square dancers. While the idea of a shortened entry list is certainly not unique to SSD, its design differs in providing a mechanism for keeping dancers happy in the entry program for at least 2 years, and in many cases, forever. This article collects in one place documentation and materials that support the use of the SSD system. Some were created by the CALLERLAB SSD Committee while others were created by people using the system in the field. These are presented in two separate groups below. Click on the buttons below to view the respective tables. |
| Item Title (link) | Description |
|---|---|
| Social Square Dance (SSD) Teaching Guide | This comprehensive document provides a lesson plan, teaching tips, and sample choreography to jump-start callers on implementing the SSD lesson system. |
| Press Release announcing Board Of Governors endorsement | Board Of Governors endorsement for using SSD as an approach for rapid restart of square dancing after COVID-19. |
| COVID-19 Information Page | This page collects CALLERLAB information related to COVID-19. |
The table below has two sections. The first contains materials of direct assistance to callers/dancers working with SSD – lists, videos, call definitions, etc. The second contains stories and experiences contributed by users of SSD.
| Item Title (link) | Description |
|---|---|
| Supporting Documentation and Materials | |
| SSD Teaching Videos | North Shore Squares in Evanston, ILL created a series of teaching videos that demonstrate the calls in the SSD 50-call lesson plan. |
| Flash cards for SSD calls. | Each card has the name of the call on one side and a dancer-friendly description of the call on the other. These sets of cards can be distributed to dancers as a teaching aid. |
| SSD Call Booklets | North Shore Squares of Evanston, IL created definition booklets as an SSD teaching aid. The booklets contain a concise and easily read definition for each call, many including color diagrams to illustrate the action. |
| SSD Alphabetical Call List | A single page that alphabetically lists the calls used in the SSD lesson system. The sheet highlights the calls from the Mainstream list that are used in SSD and also lists separately the Mainstream calls that are NOT used.. |
| Stories and Experiences | |
| North Shore Squares – 0 to 50 in 18 months | An inspiring personal narrative that charts a journey through the process of using the Social Square Dance (SSD – formerly named Sustainable Square Dance) system as a tool to dig their club out of an all-too-common hole. |
| Stories from Facebook | Some stories posted in Facebook about experiences using SSD. |
| Teaching an SSD Class | This Winning Ways story from a newer caller explains how she is using the SSD program to teach new dancers. |
| Save Square Dancing With SSD | Jerry Story and Deborah Carroll-Jones outline the philosophy and approach of SSD and how it can be used to solve square dancing’s biggest problem: recruitment and retention. |
| Article Type | Owner | Links | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resource |
Saddlebrook Squares (Richard Beaty, rdbeaty@gmail.com) |
Saddlebrook Squares of Tucson, AZ and their caller Larry Kraber have made and excellent set of teaching videos for the Mainstream and Plus programs. These videos are available online or can be ordered on a DVD. |
| Article Type | Owner | Links | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resource |
Ted Lizotte (ted@tedlizotte.com) |
During the COVID-19 pandemic all callers suddenly found themselves with lots of time on their hands. Jeremy Butler and Ted Lizotte decided to use some of that time productively and provide a series of online lectures to further caller education. A wide variety of topics and speakers were covered. See also the KnowledgeBase article on the collection of tutorial videos hosted by the Orange County Callers Association here. |
| Article Type | Author | Last Update | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Barry Clasper (barry@clasper.ca) | 2020-09-07 15:19:17 |
There have always been pockets of people who find themselves unable to assemble a whole square, or sometimes even another couple, but who want to dance anyway. The COVID-19 pandemic turned the whole square dance population into such people. As the pandemic wears on more and more of this sort of dancing is becoming available. To the point that guides and calendars are emerging to help sort through the offerings. The first three entries in the list below are such items. The first is the IAGSDC calendar of Virtual Dances (it’s the first item in the table below). The second is the Trailblazers A&C Virtual Square Dance Guide, which focuses on Advanced and Challenge dances. The third is a guide published by the Austin Square and Round Dance Association that includes all levels. In addition to the pointers to the online calendar and guides, this article provides a collection of recordings specifically aimed at people dancing by themselves. Some are in the form of a “virtual dance” where you can see other couples dancing along with you in their living rooms. Others are more in form of a demo couple showing you the moves. |
Click on the item heading to go to the recording. Some are video, others both audio and video.
| Article Type | Author | Publication Date | Links | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document |
Various |
Continuing |
There are two YouTube channels that collect videos related to square dancing and square dance history: squaredancehistory, and squaredancehistory2. The first (squaredancehistory) contains 100 video clips recorded at the November 2011 Dare To Be Square weekend held at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC.. The second (squaredancehistory2) includes videos illustrating the many styles of square dance and some interview material explaining the evolution of MWSD. These channels are managed by the Square Dance History Project which you can learn more about here |
| Article Type | Author | Publication Date | Links | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document |
Phil Donahue Show |
“1980” |
Lee Kopman created more calls used in contemporary square dance than any other individual, some 350 or more. In 1980, he appeared on the Phil Donahue Show and presented this program of square dancing, joined by dancers from New York, Chicago, Ohio and Wisconsin. Assisted at the mic by caller Dave Taylor, who calls for a group of young dancers, Kopman provides lucid responses to the host’s questions, and he provides clear demonstrations of the differences between traditional and modern square dancing. |
| Article Type | Author | Publication Date | Links | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document |
Cal Poly Line Dancing Club |
2020-02-12 |
This video is not strictly speaking about square dancing. It’s about the activities students can engage in at the Cal Poly Line Dancing Club, which include square dancing along with other dancing activities. The video was created by a member of the Cal Poly Country Line Dancing Club and includes clips from when Darren Gallina, Square Dance Caller was teaching them. It shows young people having a lot of fun with dance activities, and square dancing is part of it. |
| Article Type | Author | Publication Date | Links | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document |
JW Davis, Temecula Grape Stompers Square Dance Club |
2020-01-23 |
This promotional video was produced in 2019. It shows an attractive collage of slides depicting dancers having fun over a soundtrack of Dan Nordbye doing a singing call. |
| Article Type | Author | Last Update | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Barry Clasper (barry@clasper.ca) | 2019-11-24 |
For the past several years CALLERLAB has included a convention session called “A Visit With the Legends”. In each session several well known and pioneer people were interviewed and told “war stories” about their careers and events in their lives. These sessions have proven to be extremely popular with the convention audience. The sessions were recorded, some with audio only, some with video, and some both. While the recordings are all contained in the pages that list CALLERLAB education session recordings, we have created this summary article listing the “legend” recordings so you can find them faster. |
| Year | Link(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Audio | Moderator, Jerry Junck and Panelists, Bob Brundage, Marshall Flippo, Jerry Helt and Melton Luttrell. |
| 2013 | Audio | Moderator, Mike Seastrom and Panelists, Don Beck, Lee Kopman, and Carl Sims |
| 2014 | Audio Video |
Moderators, Jerry Junck and Mike Seastrom and Panelists, Ernie Kinney, Daryl Clendenin, Dick Henschel and Calvin Campbell |
| 2015 | Audio Video |
Moderator, Jerry Reed and Panelists, Jon Jones, Mike Seastrom, Elmer Sheffield and Al Stevens. |
| 2016 | Audio Video |
Moderator, Mike Seastrom and Panelists, Bill Heyman, Carl Sims, Johnny Wedge, and Bob Worley |
| 2017 | Video | Moderators, Jerry Junck & Mike Seastrom and Panelists, Ken Bower, Ed Foote, Johnny LeClair, and Paul Moore. |
| 2018 | Video | 67th NSDC This panel includes Betsy Gotta, Gary Shoemake and Ernie and Barbara Stone (NEC). Moderator is Jerry Junck to help lead the discussion |
| 2018 | Video | Moderator, Mike Seastrom and Panelists, Betsy Gotta, Bill Litchman, and Stew Shacklette. |
| 2019 | Video | Moderator, Johnny Wedge, and Panelists, Ed Foote, Betsy Gotta, and Jerry Junck. |
| Article Type | Author | Publication Date | Links | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document |
Dan Sahlstrom |
2019-08-25 |
This 4-minute promotional video features an interview with caller Dan Sahlstrom of Minnesota describing what MWSD is, what it’s like, who can do it, and how to learn more. A condensed 30-second version is also available. It is featured on a larger promotional website at trydancingnow.com |
| Article Type | Owner | Links | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resource |
Cal Campbell (calcampbl@gmail.com) |
Cal Campbell has put up over 200 teaching videos for Community Dance and party night dances. Sometimes the written description of a dance isn’t enough to figure out how it works if you’ve never seen it done. This resource let’s you see how the dances work and how to teach them. These videos are contained in the BDPLS Channel on YouTube. |
| Article Type | Submitter | Date | Story Abstract | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winning Ways Story | Bruce Holmes (Bruce@BruceTHolmes.com) | 2019-01-16 |
Bruce Holmes is the caller for a new club in Evanston, ILL called North Shore Squares, which at the time of this writing has been in operation for about 18 months and now has 50+ members. This story is an inspiring personal narrative that charts his journey through the process of using the Social Square Dance (SSD – formerly named Sustainable Square Dance) system as a tool to dig their club out of an all-too-common hole. All the clubs in the area danced Plus or beyond and you can’t realistically take the average recruit from nothing to Plus in a dance season. Result: at most one student intake a year, sparse student numbers, and heavy attrition. Club membership was falling. Along the way, the group faced all the usual hurdles: resistance to change, demoralization, lack of resources, reluctance to do the hard work. Bruce’s narrative takes you through how they stick-handled their way through the obstacles and grew their club. You can click on the links below to get more information on the North Shore Squares story, and also see some of the supporting materials they developed to support their marketing and teaching.
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| Article Type | Owner | Links | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resource | North Shore Squares (northshoresquares@gmail.com) |
North Shore Squares dances in Evanston, ILL and has been using the Sustainable Square Dance (also known as SSD and Club 50) teaching list as their intake level. To help their dancers they have created a series of teaching videos that demonstrate the calls in the SSD 50-call lesson plan. Follow the link to see the list of call videos, both in alphabetical order and by lesson. |
| Article Type | Author | Publication Date | Links | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document |
Goldrushoutlaws49 (YouTube channel) |
2014-03-29 |
This 6 minute promotional video shows some of the top modern callers, a variety of dance floors, ages, and dress. and shows how square dancing has evolved from its earliest roots to the modern form. |
| Article Type | Author | Last Update | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Barry Clasper (barry@clasper.ca) | 2018-03-21 |
Click on the button below to see a table listing three short promotional videos posted to YouTube by Jon Hansell Nilsson from Sweden. All are under two minutes long. |
| Video Title (click to view video) | Creator | YouTube Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| You should probably try Square Dance too | Jon Hansell Nilsson | 2018-01-30 | This video shows modern American Square Dance. You may see a lot of traditional clothing in this video since it was filmed at a Swedish National Convention, you may however dress the way you like when you attend a dance. The purpose of the video is for you to get a feeling for Square Dance |
| Try Square Dance | Jon Hansell Nilsson | 2018-01-30 | This is modern squaredancing! 4 couples dance together in a square figure. You can attend a dance by yourself or together with a partner. As soon as you get together you will begin to make new friends! |
| Make Time For Square Dancing | Jon Hansell Nilsson | 2018-02-04 | A video to market Square Dance. The benefits are many! Come as yourself, learn to dance step by step and do the most of your leisure. |
| Article Type | Owner | Links | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resource | Dave Wilkinson | Video |
This 28 minute video was produced by Dave Wilkinson in cooperation with the Sage Swingers in Maine. It does a great job of describing a little square dance history, explaining how their local clubs work, explaining the benefits and appeal of square dancing, and showing dancers having fun at dances. Production values are excellent. |
| Article Type | Submitter | Date | Story Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winning Ways Story | Mike & Edie Kirsch | 2004-02-28 |
The desire for a tape to show at square dance demos, showing the fun and excitement of Square Dancing, has developed into a 15 minute Square Dancing Infomercial in Minnesota’s Central East Region. In previous years one of the local clubs recorded a tape each year in the studios of a local public access cable TV station. It was shot in a studio with 2 or 3 squares and no scenery. It did net a few couples each year but wasn’t really that exciting. Knowing that a professionally done film, produced by a recording studio would be cost prohibitive they approached the regional cable access company about taping some scenes at local square dances. The company was very receptive and offered to produce a 15-minute infomercial about square dancing for a maximum of $1500.00. The final cost was $1300.00.
Read More … |
| Article Type | Submitter | Date | Story Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winning Ways Story | Spring Park, MN, Dee Scott: 952-472-2987 |
2005-01-01 |
This report provided Questions and Answers concerning the Square Dance Video produced by the Minnesota square dancers. In October and November, 2003, Ken and Dee Scott took classes at the Lake Minnetonka Communications Commission TV studio in Spring Park, Minnesota and became ‘certified community television producers.’ This certification entitled them to use the LMCC studio free of cost for any TV production they wished to undertake. Being square dancers, they thought a TV show would be the perfect way to communicate the many extraordinary qualities of square dance to the public. Read More … |
| Article Type | Submitter | Date | Story Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winning Ways Story | Charles Class, Santa Clara Valley, Class@aol.com |
2005-02-02 |
We received the following information from Mary Knoppe with information about a square dance video program made available to viewers on Public Access television in the Santa Clara Valley area of Northern California. Our first taping was on April 19, 2004. We have taped a total of 26 shows since our starting date. We tape at the Comcast studio in San Jose, Ca. On each show taping date, two 28 minute programs are taped. Shows are live tape (no post production editing). Read More … |
| Article Type | Author | Last Update | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Barry Clasper (barry@clasper.ca) | 2015-08-21 |
This summary page points to material useful for doing single party nights or other dances aimed at people with no prior dance training. These dances are intended to be stand-alone events held strictly for the enjoyment of the dancers on that night. They are not designed to be recruiting vehicles for MWSD clubs, although there may well be cases where such an event might pique someone’s interest in a MWSD club. The article below lists a number of systems or repositories of material to help design single-night dances. |