The official folk dance of Georgia, square dancing involves four couples or groups of four couples performing in a compressed framework of a square, where each couple forms a corner. Traditionally accompanied by a fiddle, banjo, accordion and guitar, modern square dancing clubs mainly use recordings instead of a live band. The couples learn movements and patterns as they listen to the sung prompts of a caller. Cooperative movement is the trademark of expert square dancers.
Lakeshore Squares, Gainesville, Georgia
Dancers in the Lakeshore Squares club meet at the First Presbyterian Church gym on the first and third Saturdays of each month. Early rounds begin at 7:30 p.m. Mainstream, plus, rounds and lines go from 8 to 10:30 p.m. The club regularly brings in guest callers or hosts themed dances.
Lakeshore Squares, Gainesville, GA
First Presbyterian Church
800 S. Enota Drive
Gainesvilla, GA 30501
770-536-3049
lakeshoresquares.com
The Habersham Squares, Cornelia, Georgia
The Habersham Squares club dances on the second and fourth Saturday of each month from 8 to 10 p.m. and offers dancing at the mainstream and plus level. The club dances at the Grant Reeves VFW Post #7720 and is not strict in dance attire but requires dancers to come dressed in nice-looking clothes. Traditional square dance attire is always acceptable at any dance, but the club goes casual from Memorial Day through summer until Labor Day.
Habersham Squares Dance Club
Grant Reeves VFW Post #7720
423 VFW Post Road
Cornelia, Georgia 30531
Hotlanta Squares, Atlanta, Georgia
The Hotlanta Squares is a nonprofit dedicated to modern Western square dancing within the GLBT community. The club holds weekly classes that cost $5 and monthly dances that cost $5 for members and $7 for guests. Annual membership is $25, but dancers interested in the club do not have to be a member of the club to participate in classes, dances or other events sponsored by Hotlanta Squares. The club officers do require non-member dancers to have completed the Callerlab-based course for the level that they plan to dance.
Hotlanta Squares
P.O. Box 15533
Atlanta, GA 30333
www.iagsdc.org/hotlanta/index.html
hotlanta.squares@gmail.com
Classic City Squares, Athens, Georgia
Classic City Squares is a noncompetitive mainstream and plus club in downtown Athens, Georgia, that dances at the First United Methodist Church on the second and fourth Saturday of each month. The club offers a 7:30 p.m. class with the dance starting at 8:30 p.m.
Classic City Squares
327 N. Lumpkin St.
Athens, GA 30601
classiccitysquares.com
