2024 BSDG "Stereo Love" Main Stream Square Dance Pattern call by Soeren Lindergaard

May 25th 2024, 50 Anniversary of the Bonn Square Dance Group. 220 dances from 70 club had a lot of fun dancing with Soeren Lindengard, Björn Wagner and callers from the floor. You can tell, Soeren loves his job. • Edward Maya & Mia Mart...

[@flywelder]

Stefan, my wife and I enjoyed this video and the others from this event! We are square dancers in the USA who are in our early 60s. this is such a happy crowd, we felt we could join right in with all of you! And we would make new friends! and making new friends is an awesome experience! We are really amazed and pleased that so many people show up to dance that you have so many squares!! Wow! we struggle to get 2 or 3 squares! And so many younger people show up! enough to make two squares themselves! Awesome! that is not happening here! and it worries us older dancers. We have some questions for you, and your fellow dancers, and we hope you would consider asking/interviewing the dancers at the dances you attend or anywhere you can talk with them.
Questions are:
1) Can you share with us what is being done to attract young people to take square dance lessons and show up to the dances after they graduate?
2) My wife really likes the shirts, / blouses, the woman are wearing! she would like to hear from the woman, their thoughts on the tops they wear and about what the cost for the skirts are in Germany? here in the USA they are very expensive, like $100.00 - $120.00 and more just for the skirt. which is too much money, and then all the clothing items underneath are extra costs. far too much money to have several colors and styles. many women here, including my wife, are looking for ideas of suitable replacements. She would like to hear ideas from German woman and what they are using as substitutions.
3) My wife noticed that it looks as though many women are not wearing socks with their shoes, is this correct? and if true, she would like to know how they are able to tolerate not wearing socks?
4) Stefan, would you make a video with another couple and show us how you do that square through, but keep holding hands over head? Do it in slow motion so we can follow along and duplicate/ practice here at home. because it looks like fun!
5) Stefan, with a dancing partner, would you demonstrate how you do your twirling, during a promenade home call, where when your halfway to your home spot, the girl suddenly goes under your arm, and then you go under hers and then it ends beautifully at home! this is a beautiful maneuver! and my wife and I would like to learn this, would you do a video and do the movements in slow motion, so we can follow along at home. we will greatly appreciate these instructions!!
danke schön
David and Pam

[@flywelder]

Stefan, we want to make two more requests, 1) that would be to ask you to visit the food area and show us what foods are provided at these dances and tell us what each item you film is, because we want the entire experience that is happening at these dances, because we love trying different foods, and because we are infatuated with the excitement at these dances your attending! makes us want to jump into the TV screen and join you all! Lol! 2nd) how far are you and some others traveling to attend theses dances? are dancers finding that they have to travel great distances in order to attend a dance? because here in our part of eastern USA, after the covid 19 pandemic, finding a dance to attend is now much more difficult, and often we have to travel an hour or more away from home to attend a dance and then that time back to home .. makes for a long day and perhaps an expensive one! before covid, we could attend a dance 3 times a week and not travel more than 20 or 30 minutes. We are wondering if might be somewhat similar in Germany?
danke schön
David and Pam