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Exercise
for your mind and body: responding to the caller's calls
and moving to the rhythm of the music uses all parts of your
brain at one time and provides moderate physical exercise for
your body. A wholesome family activity for adults and
children with no fancy moves required, no age limits: if
you can walk and follow directions, you can square dance.
This
is a universal activity Modern Western Square Dance
clubs can be found all over the world and, no matter where you
go, the calls are called in English.
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Mainstream
and Plus Level Squares and Cued Lines between Square Tips
Central Community Services Center 55 Jones Bend Rd. Ext. Paris, TN (see map at left) Dance Monday nights, 7:00 - 9:00 except Memorial Day and Labor Day Contact: stonehuntr@yahoo.com 731-642-2491 Or check our Facebook Page for current schedules and/or changes: Paris Squares dances at Central Community Services Center in cooperation with the Henry County Office On Aging. Part of our agreement says that we do not charge for dances, so there is no charge for dancing or classes. Our classes usually start the Monday after Labor Day with two "open house" sessions which are introductory. Classes run from 6:30 to 7:30 with the club dance going from 7:30 to 9:00 on class nights. Class members are welcome to stay and watch the club dance. There are usually 15 lessons, one hour each week for 15 weeks. This takes dancers through Basic and Mainstream levels of dance. It is important to be willing to commit to regular attendance at classes as each class builds on what was learned in the previous class. We are a Mainstream and Plus level dance club, so after graduation from the Mainstream class, new dancers will begin to learn plus level calls. Below are some links to introduce you to Modern Western Square Dance and to demonstrate the Basic, Mainstream and Plus Calls. |
See Map for Dance at Left (3rd map down) FISH FRY CELEBRATION INFORMATION This
year Paris, TN is celebrating their 71st World's Biggest Fish
Fry and Paris Squares is sponsoring a dance in celebration of
this event.
The
World's Biggest Fish Fry is an annual week-long celebration in
Paris Tennessee. Leading up to this week there are beauty
pageants. During the week there are rodeos, demolition
derbies, street dances, concerts, week-long carnival with rides
and sideshows and a "Fish Tent". All week long they serve
tons of catfish with beans , slaw, hush puppies, and
fries. The week ends with a Grand Parade on Friday and a
Small Fry parade and Catfish Races on Saturday. The "Fish
Tent" always has long lines that can be 1 to 2 hours long at
peak times. There are at least three restaurants in Paris
that do an excellent job of serving Catfish.
In
years past, (as early as the 1960's) square dance clubs in Paris
always had a square dance on that Friday night. After the
second club folded due to lack of participation, we did not have
the dance for several years. When we decided to bring the
dance back in 2023, we decided to move the dance to Saturday so
we could have better out of town participation and also add an
afternoon session.
Since
we had such great success last year we plan to continue.
Our plan is to have well known callers at the dances to help
draw visitors as well as give our local dancers a chance to
dance to well known callers.
For
our 1st dance Robert Townsend was our caller. We had 10
squares and were packed in our hall. We have found a
larger venue for this year and Tom Miller has agreed to call the
dance for us. We are charging a little more than last year
to help pay for the event hall and the caller. Paris
Squares uses all the gate receipts and donations for expenses
and the caller. We will also have a 50/50 pot.
Some
visitors to the Fish Fry actually get rooms in neighboring towns
due to local rooms being booked up. We recommend you
actually book rooms now. You can always cancel
reservations. If the hotel you try to reserve online shows
it is booked, try calling the hotel directly. Sometimes
they block out rooms for the week and reserve them directly for
their regular customers.
Hampton
Inn (brand new building) and Super Eight both have inside
rooms. The next best to Hampton Inn is a Quality Inn (used
to be a Hampton). It has mostly outside easy access
rooms. The other motels are lesser and we would not
recommend them. McKenzie & Dover in TN and Murray, KY
have several motels and are 25 to 35 minutes away. Paris
Landing State Park Resort has rooms about 20 minutes away, but,
again, it is a true hotel with inside access and they like their
rooms.
Paris
Squares hopes you come and enjoy The World's Biggest Fish Fry
and dance with Tom Miller.
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Go
to Squaredancehistory.org and view this video. It is
great! https://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/2007 While you are there, view the other sections for history, etc. |
The
Tennessee State website for square dancing: http://www.tnsquaredance.org/ This site gives you access to all the clubs in Tennessee and other info. |
Taminations https://www.tamtwirlers.org/taminations/ This is a graphic version of all the calls. |
You
Tube Square Dance Lessons https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=p-wDn9QRjJ0 This starts Mainstream Lesson 1A and will continue through each lesson. |
Square Dance
Lessons https://videosquaredancelessons.com/lessons/ This link is a list of all lessons and each lesson can be run online. Also has a 2 set DVD available to order for all Mainstream and Plus calls. |