It’s Sunday evening and dozens of people are ping-ponging around the room at Berkeley’s Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center. It’s the end of a three-day traveling music festival called “Dare to Be ...

There was a time when Henry Ford weaponized square dancing to fight the growth of jazz music, which he claimed was a Jewish attempt to subvert wholesome American culture. The Detroit Square Dance ...

CAMBRIDGE — The Dorchester Square Dance Club is a lively bunch who enjoy each other’s company just as much as they enjoy dancing. Some members joined a few months ago. Others have been a part of the ...

It’s a Thursday night and a group of folks in Washington Heights do-si-do to the bassline from “Shake Your Groove Thing” by Peaches & Herb. Square dancing has a reputation as more of a hobby for white ...

It’d been years — decades, perhaps — since Jim Stuart had been to a square dance at the Taney Center. The small community hub in rural Missouri was built for neighbors to gather, and, at its start, ...