Back in the late ’90’s, some dancers had a cool idea: why not use video and audio internet feeds to let dancers from all over the world have a dance at the same time to the same callers. World Square Dance 2000 was born. The idea:

Since square dancing is a world-wide activity and technology has advanced to the point that it is possible to communicate to the world

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, it would be of great benefit to square dancing and the world as a whole to perform a world-wide square dance. A world-wide square dance would help unite the activity as well as advance peace and understanding among the peoples of the world. The basic concept would be to have a group of square dance callers perform live over the internet to all the square dancers in the world. It would be an eight hour-long dance. This would be a non-profit venture.

At the time, the group decided that the technology wasn’t there yet, and the event was postponed indefinitely. Now there’s some action; the committee has sent out a survey asking clubs around the world if they could and would participate.

Our local square dance facility, the Albuquerque Square Dance Center doesn’t have broadband access, but we do have a phone line, so we could go for an audio-only link.

I think it’s a cool idea (but then, I’m a techno-freak anyway). Not only would it be fun, but it would also be the kind of thing that could be used to get square dancing in the news.

To keep up with what’s going on, check the website: World Square Dance 2000

For the past few months, I’ve been collecting LiveJournal (and other) personal blog entries relating to both square dancing and contra dancing. I’ve been meaning to organize

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, collate, compare, contrast, etc., but haven’t gotten around to it. So I just made a couple of HTML pages out of the raw entries. You can see them here. Click on the cover to see the first page (Square Dancing); cllick up in the corner of the page to see the second page (Contra Dancing). BTW, these pages are large; give ’em some time to download.

Now here’s an idea: a square dance club, the Flushing Roadrunners, has a blog: Blogger: User Profile: Flushing Roadrunners Square Dance Club. I couldn’t find an indication on who’s writing it; seems to be mostly little news snippets.

This seems like a good thing: it’s a way for club members to keep up with what’s going on (the club could do this with an email list also)

, and it makes the club’s activities visible to anyone who happens to be looking (like a website, but much easier to update on a regular basis).

I hope they keep it up.