{"id":1633,"date":"2013-10-12T07:53:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T05:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepage.nanninga.myds.me\/modern-western-square-dance\/"},"modified":"2019-01-19T10:19:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T09:19:01","slug":"modern-western-square-dance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/homepage.nanninga.me\/en\/square-dance\/modern-western-square-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Western Square Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Many activities were still running side by side. The groups dedicated to the Country Dance and the Square Dance\u00a0worked separately from each other. Each region had its own dances and special customs. In the 60s,\u00a0a group of callers began\u00a0to collect material and standardize it. In the early 70s\u00a0they created the first programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">This meant that every dancer who mastered a particular program,\u00a0could dance anywhere else too where this program was danced. The Callers were able to exchange their material much easier and suggest new figures.\u00a0New figures were\u00a0developed and &#8220;tested&#8221; around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In a large collection\u00a0more than 5,000 square dance figures are documented. About 400 of them are listed in approximately 10 programs that are danced around \u00a0the world. The address list of international square dance clubs is a book of letter format, two inches thick and contains about 10,000 addresses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The square dance came to Germany\u00a0after the end of\u00a0World War II with the U.S. Armed Forces. In 1949, Paul Hartman\u00a0founded\u00a0the first European Square Dance Club in Bremen. Originally intended\u00a0for the U.S. Army only, the Square Dance virus spread\u00a0all over Germany soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Also other European countries were &#8220;infected&#8221;:\u00a0Switzerland, Austria, the Benelux countries and even in the Czech Republic you find Square Dance clubs. In England and in Sweden there is a very active scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/homepage.nanninga.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1633?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/homepage.nanninga.me\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print Page<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many activities were still running side by side. The groups dedicated to the Country Dance and the Square Dance\u00a0worked separately from each other. Each region had its own dances and special customs. In the 60s,\u00a0a group of callers began\u00a0to collect <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/homepage.nanninga.me\/en\/square-dance\/modern-western-square-dance\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1702,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1633","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homepage.nanninga.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homepage.nanninga.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homepage.nanninga.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homepage.nanninga.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homepage.nanninga.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/homepage.nanninga.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/homepage.nanninga.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1633\/revisions\/1719"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homepage.nanninga.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homepage.nanninga.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}