As a member of a club or other square dance organization, dancers are involved in the promotion of that groups events. The members develop the promotional concept and then follow it through to the event. As officers of a club or other organization danoers are called upon to provide leadership and guidance for their fellow dancers. On the club level its finding a hall, hiring a caller, planning refreshments, advertising, etc. This expands to the national level where volunteers deal with the logistics of as mqpy as 20,000 dancers or more converging on a city for a three day national convention.
Social skills are a natural part of square dancing.
It starts with the first greeting as you enter a hall and ends with the lastthank you of the evening. Through constant interaction with others square dancing helps to develop social skills in a very comfortable and varied enviroment. Today's square dancer has the opportunity to interact with dancers of almost every nationality, religious, ethnic and economic background. For in a square every person is important and every person is dependent on the other seven people in the square. As you can see today's square dancing is truly in step with today's world.