It covers a wide variety of formation dancing from easy to most difficult sequences. Besides moving in time to the music a great deal of thinking is required to translate given calls into formation dependent movements. Nevertheless, dancers have great fun in giving all the attention, concentration, and team cooperation necessary to succeed.

To learn square dancing you attend a beginners' course. Depending on the learners' and teacher's skills such a course may run for about 8 to 40 weeks or sessions. The first major goal is to graduate as a "Mainstream dancer" with enough knowledge and practice to start dancing in a regular Mainstream (ca. 70 calls) square dance club.

It is recommended to start square dancing with a partner. Without a partner you're bound to run into trouble: You have to either take away somebody else's partner or sit out many a dance. Neither choice is much fun.

Usually, beginners' courses start in the winter semester, in September or October. If the previous course is finished, the vhs Vaterstetten offers a beginners' course also in the summer semester. To cover costs, 16 dancers are required to run a course. Currently, the fee is 3 EUR per dancer and session. The vhs also offers the possibility to start a course whenever enough people are willing to learn square dancing.

If you want to find out if square dancing suits you as a pastime and learn just a few fundamental figures of it, you may attend a free introductory session, called OPEN HOUSE. If you just want to see how square dancing is done and talk to dancers, visit a club (e.g. our club on a Friday night in the entrance hall of the school in Vaterstetten Wendelsteinstraße 8, see Calendar).

A new way to start square dancing is to attend "Dancing ABC" sessions if offered. You can go to a session whenever you like. It's just come, pay for the session (3 EUR), dance and have fun. And come again, if you enjoyed it.