Tsukuba Square Dance Club

May 2009 Events

Tsukuba Square Dance Club — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:00:57 +0000

2 (Saturday)
Classes cancelled due to Golden Week holidays.

9 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Mainstream, Plus, and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Beginners’ Class (Basic) Day 5
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

16 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Mainstream, Plus, and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Beginners’ Class (Basic) Day 6
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

23 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Mainstream, Plus, and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Beginners’ Class (Basic) Day 7
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

30 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Mainstream, Plus, and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Beginners’ Class (Basic) Day 8
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

April 2009 Events

Tsukuba Square Dance Club — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:00:26 +0000

4 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Mainstream, Plus, and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Beginners’ Class (Basic) Day 1
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

11 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Mainstream, Plus, and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Beginners’ Class (Basic) Day 2
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

18 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Mainstream, Plus, and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Beginners’ Class (Basic) Day 3
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

25 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Mainstream, Plus, and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Beginners’ Class (Basic) Day 4
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

March 2009 Events

Tsukuba Square Dance Club — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:19:44 +0000

7 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

14 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus, Mainstream, and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Beginners’ Class (FREE TRIAL LESSON)
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

21 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus, Mainstream, and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Beginners’ Class (FREE TRIAL LESSON)
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

28 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus, Mainstream, and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Beginners’ Class (FREE TRIAL LESSON)
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

2009 Beginners’ Class

Tsukuba Square Dance Club — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:54:08 +0000

Tsukuba Square Dance Club offers an American Square Dance beginners’ class from April to July every year. Square dancing is a lot of fun, involving both rhythmic movement and a bit of puzzle-like brain work. It was originally an American folk dance, but in the last 30 years it has been considerably altered to its modern form, which is now quite popular all over Japan, as well as in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.

Come on and join the class!!

* Dates: March 14 to 28, 2009 (Free Trial Classes), April 4 to July 25, 2009 (Beginners’ Class)
* Time: Saturday evenings from 7pm to 9pm
* Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center)
* Fee: FREE in March; 2,000 yen for April to July
* Bring: Indoor-only shoes

During the class you will learn all of the steps at the “Basic” level. If you come to a majority of the classes and learn the steps, you will get an official graduation certificate in July!

February 2009 Events

Tsukuba Square Dance Club — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:01:59 +0000

7 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

14 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

21 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

28 (Saturday) and 29 (Sunday)
Square Dance Workshop in Moriya

January 2009 Events

Tsukuba Square Dance Club — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:00:27 +0000

10 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

17 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

24 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

31 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

December 2008 Events

Tsukuba Square Dance Club — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:00:19 +0000

6 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Kasuga Community Center.

13 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

20 (Saturday)
5:30pm to 9:30pm: Christmas Party
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

Classes will start again from January 10, 2009 at Takezono Community Center.

Online Square Dance Lessons

Shaney — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:09:29 +0000

Saddlebrooke Squares Square Dancing Club of Tucson, Arizona provides free access to their videos of Mainstream and Plus lessons. Watching the videos is a good way to prepare for a lesson or to review the lesson after you get home from your class.

Plus is quite complicated and it involves (1) stringing a lot of Basic and Mainstream steps together and (2) remembering where you are in the formation at any given time. Before I started learning Plus, one of the members of my club advised me to study the steps before I come to class. He said that while you can learn the Mainstream steps fairly easily by attending the classes and reviewing the steps often in class, you will be able to learn how to dance the Plus steps a lot better if you do some preparation at home before you come to the class. I have found this to be very valuable advice. I have been watching the above videos and reading “The Illustrated Plus Movements of Square Dancing” before my Plus lessons and I find that it is helping me to remember the moves. I am still having trouble with “Follow Your Neighbour” and “Spin Chain the Gears”, but hopefully practice (and watching the above videos) will make perfect!

Sets In Order: Old Square Dance Video

Shaney — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:40:21 +0000

“Sets In Order”, a magazine devoted to square dancing, created this film to attract new audiences.

I’m not sure when this video was made, but the square dancing that I am learning in Tsukuba looks quite different from this!

November 2008 Events

Tsukuba Square Dance Club — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:00:05 +0000

1 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Kasuga Community Center.

8 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

15 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Kasuga Community Center

22 (Saturday)
6pm to 7pm: Plus and Round Dance Class
7pm to 9pm: Mainstream and Round Dance Class
Location: Takezono Community Center (beside Takezono Shopping Center).

29 (Saturday)
10am to 4pm: 5th Annual Ibaraki Dosado Party
Location: Tatsunoko Arena, Ryugasaki