The Swinging Mates’ feet still moved as beautifully to the music’s beat as a lyric poet’s rhyme. More than 100 modern Western square dancers stepped to their caller’s cadence, dazzling the crowd as ...

Have you heard that it’s good for your brain to learn a new skill? That physical exercise and social activity are good for your health? You can get it all in one package – learn how to square dance.

Retired Navy Master Chief Virgil Forbes was doling out orders at Meade Middle School Friday night. But he wasn’t instructing service members or ROTC cadets. Forbes is the caller for the Swinging ...

The strains of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” are pulsing, and the dance floor is packed. “There’s a fire starting in my heart reaching a fever pitch and it’s bringing me out the dark” Allemande left, ...