26th Anniversary Dance - Pajama Party!
Grap your footsies or long johns! Smoking jackets welcome. It's time for a great Pajama Party with WSD! Stick with Mother Goose or venture towards the Playboy Mansion. (Info)
Classes
Western Star Dancers meet Monday evenings 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center (EVRC), 100 Collingwood at 18th Street, San Francisco, located just behind DeLano's Grocery Store, formerly Cala Foods (view map). Weekly classes are led by Rich Reel. Monthly, Club Night is held every third Wednesday. Find out more about classes...
Become A Member
Would you like to be a member of Western Star Dancers? Are you an old member who would like to rejoin? We'd love to have you. Simply download the membership form (73KB) and send it back to us.
Don't Stop! Don't Slow Down!
Western Star Dancers, one of the founding members of the International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs (IAGSDC), was organized in March of 1982. Western Star was the first club in San Francisco to use the Callerlab format. From the beginning Western Star has actively promoted interaction with the straight square dance callers and the dancers in our area, and in 1986, club member Bob Bellville was approved as the first openly gay member of the Northern California Callers Association.
Western Star Dancers offers classes in Mainstream or Plus on Mondays led by Rich Reel, and Club Nights with guest callers on the third Wednesday of each month. We have three annual dances and numerous social activities and events with other Bay Area square dancing clubs.
Our home has long been the Eureka Valley Recreation Center (EVRC) in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood. If you are in the area, check our calendar and drop by!
For more additional information, write:
Western Star Dancers
PMB 480
584 Castro Street
San Francisco, CA 94114-2594
or please feel free to contact Daryl Daniels, Club Administrator, at 415.586.2599 or
Calendar Highlights
April 2008
- APR 07: Mainstream Class
- APR 14: Mainstream Class
- APR 16: Club Night - Taxes Squared | Fen Tamanaha
- APR 21: Mainstream Class
- APR 28: Mainstream Class
May 2008
- MAY 05: Mainstream Class
- MAY 12: Mainstream Class
- MAY 19: ORANGE Mainstream Class Completion Celebration
- MAY 21: Club Night | John Kenny
- MAY 26: No Class | Memorial Day
Links
- Animated Square Dance Calls
- Basic, Mainstream, Plus, and Advanced by Noriko Takahashi
- Basic, Mainstream, and Plus “people picture” animations by Hiroshi Yaoko
- Mainstream, Plus, and Advanced by Jim Penrod (click "animation")
- Resources for Dancers
- Tips for Square Dancers: Tips for class members (and the helping Angels too), courtesy of El Camino Reelers
- How May I Help?: Helpful hints for hinting helpfully by Barry Clasper
- Handholds - Why and How by Orlo Hoadley
- Square Dance Call Sound Effects by Paul Asente
- Helping in a Square by Clark Baker
- Additional Resources
- Bay Area Dance Calendar
For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area, this is a great way to learn what hot! - International Dance Calendar
If you're looking for a great dance anywhere in the world, check out this calendar - Multi-Day Dance Calendar
Many clubs host "fly-ins" which are an entertaining and exciting way to dance for the whole weekend * * * * *
- Bay Area LGBT Square Dance Clubs: List of nearby gay/lesbian and supportive straight square dance clubs
- Dosado.com: General information about all aspects of contemporary square dancing
- IAGSDC: International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs
- Squares Across The Border: Our sister club in Canada
- Square Dancing Stained Glass: A Project of San Francisco Arts Commission Equity Grants Program
- Bay Area Dance Calendar