Try Square Dancing
No partner, no experience and no fancy clothes needed. If you can walk and you can laugh, you can square dance.
Lessons on Thursday nights
The Promenaders teach new dancers on Thursday nights, 7:00 – 9:00 PM, starting each September, at Church of the Messiah UMC, 51 N. State Street, Westerville, with caller Jason Raleigh. Singles, couples and teens welcome.
Questions about lessons? Call Bob Hindman at 614-571-3981, or send us a note.
No lesson dates listed? A new class may be about to start: ask us, or see every class around Columbus below.
How it works
A caller stands at the front and calls out each move in time to the music. Eight dancers, four couples in a square, follow along together. Nobody memorizes a routine: you learn the calls a few at a time in friendly lessons, and before long you’re dancing to callers all over Ohio, and anywhere in the world.
At the Promenaders we dance squares and rounds. Round dancing is couples dancing to a cuer, who calls the steps of waltzes, two-steps and cha-chas, so you never have to remember the routine.
Why people love it
- Fun. You’ll laugh more in one evening than you have all week.
- Fitness. A night of dancing covers miles without feeling like exercise.
- Friendship. As our members say, square dancing is friendship set to music.
- Good for the mind. Reacting to the caller keeps you sharp.
More classes around Columbus
Other Central Ohio clubs teach too, on different nights of the week. Find every beginner class around Columbus at Columbus Square Dance.
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Want a head start?
Our 3D Animations page shows any call danced out, step by step, so you can see a move before you try it.
