Square Dancing No More?
“Do-si-do and promenade with your partner.”
Every year, I look forward to the week before the winter holidays during which we go down to the gym with our classes and square dance. However, I have recently been informed that square dancing this year might be cancelled (gasp). To all the grade nines who have not yet experienced this wonderful Bell High School tradition, square dancing may seem really random and unpleasant (because you have to hold boys’ hands- ew) but trust me when I say that it’s so much more entertaining than it sounds.
Square dancing is great because it forces us to pair up with seven other people that aren’t necessarily in our tight group of friends. Once you get over the initial awkwardness, it doesn’t even matter if you don’t know your partner all that well. The dance moves aren’t too challenging and it doesn’t matter if your group isn’t great at it, everyone’s just there to enjoy themselves.
Square dancing gets the whole school into the holiday spirit. If we don’t have it this year, what are we going to do with ourselves in the week leading up to the holidays?
Editor’s Note: Apparently we do have square dancing. No worries, then. Just get out and dance!