About Modern Square Dance 

This is not your high school or Grandma's square dance...

Dr. Lloyd Shaw will forever be considered the father of modern square dance. For more than 30 years he led this movement from Cheyenne Mountain School in Colorado Springs and spread it around the world through his teaching, books and his dancers. This is not  high school square dancing!

If you are looking for a way to keep your step-count up during the fall and winter, or you want to meet fun people and have a great time, modern square dance is for you. Need to add something new to your exercise program but don’t want to go to the gym and have no room for a treadmill or stationary bike? Try modern square dancing.

WAIT, Read on! … Were pictures of crinolines, Western shirts, and old-time music running through your mind? No more! Square dancing has joined the 21 st century: casual clothes, modern music, and FUN! Do you like Classic Rock music? New country? Top 40 hits? Heavy Metal? Do you know your left from your right? Can you count to 5? Can you walk briskly? Then modern square dancing is perfect for you!

Modern square dancing is a fun, fast paced and social. We dance in groups of eight people (4 couples) – but you don’t need a partner to join. You’ll meet all sorts of people: young people, empty nesters, retirees. So, come as a couple, a single, or a group of friends. Everyone is welcome. In each dance lesson, you will learn different steps or calls. The dance leader then strings the calls together in order and dancers work together to execute the sequence as the calls are given. Our dance callers are great teachers: they are very patient in making sure you learn the calls before they are used in a dance!

Square dancing is great physically. It will make your Fitbit or Apple Watch go wild – you will easily register 5,000 steps in a normal two-hour dance night! It’s a great way to enjoy some exercise that is too much fun to be called exercise!

Monarch Mavericks Square Dance Club dances in beautiful Salida, Colorado. If you are interested in lessons, email: [email protected]

We will have you dancing up a storm to great music with new friends in no time at all.

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