Burleson's Square Dance Encylopedia #1

A friend of mine has an encylopedia of square dance calls authored by a Bill Burleson. In several cases it has proven to be a most inclusive source of information, coming up with the answers when other authorities have fallen by the wayside. She says she purchased it on E-bay and the contact information in it have been dead ends. I would like to acquire a copy and wonder if you can provide me with any leads to a source.

Although the Encylopedia is the most inclusive source we have for square dance calls, unfortunately the definitions are often poor quality, especially for the calls used at the challenge levels.

If you're looking for historical calls, Burleson's is a decent resource. A much better book (in my opinion) is Jay King's Glossary, which unfortunately is no longer in print.

For the advanced and challenge levels, there are much better definition books available (including our own Ceder Chest Square Dance Definition books).

You can also download definition sets from the Callerlab website ( http://www.callerlab.org/ ).

Burleson's Square Dance Encylopedia #2
We would like to buy a copy of Burleson's encyclopedia for our caller who has been looking for one for years. I haven't had any success locating one. Any ideas about where to check?

1. Go to Palomino Records's web site (http://www.palominorecords.com/) and click on 'Square Dance (Products Directory)' then click on 'Square Dance Books'. You'll find it in the list there. (http://www.palominorecords.com/sd/booksdBurl.htm).
2. Go to Western Square Dancing's web site (http://www.dosado.com/) and click on the 'Books' link under 'Caller's Corner' (navigation area on the left hand side). From there, click on 'Complete Listing of Square & Round Dance Books' (http://www.dosado.com/sdpubs.htm) where you will find it listed.

C-1 Teach Tapes
I would appreciate it if you could let me know where I could purchase C1 Teaching Tapes. They would have to be posted to England.

A couple of years ago, in Plon Germany, we recorded the C1-teach. Callers were myself, Dave Wilson, and Lars Asplund. The series should be available from RHC Enterprises as I sent them a copy. The series may also be available from Steffan Mauring in Hamburg Germany.

C-2 Tapes and Videos
Do you sell C-2 tapes and/or C-2 videos and, if not, could you give me some names, addresses, and phone numbers of persons or corporations that DO sell C-2 tapes or videos?

Dick Cook (RHC Enterprises) has some of my C-2 tapes.
http://www.quiknet.com/~rhc/tapes.htm

CDs with calls

We are fairly new to square dancing - we are taking lessons (Plus level). We recognize we need to practice, practice and practice actual dancing and we are trying to do just that, but we can't find music! Specifically, we've gotten 3 other couples to agree to meet twice a week in our home to practice, and now I am looking for music. I can only deal with CD's and/or MP3 or WAV files, if it is possible to download songs with calls. Do you have any ideas? Can I join your site and download what we need (for a fee, I assume?). That would be ideal, because then I can make a CD for practicing!

You can buy CDs with square dance calling from some callers, and or music producers.

Record dealers (also selling CDs and MP3) can be found via
http://www.ceder.net/recorddb/record_dealers.php

Also, check out the web sites of music producers, as some of them sell CDs. For example,
http://www.buddyweaver.com/DanceRanch.htm

A list of music producers can be found at
http://www.ceder.net/recorddb/label_web_sites.php

Being a caller myself, you can download a few samples of me calling at my local Plus club at
http://www.ceder.net/vic/samples/

Checkers
Where can I purchase some Square Dance Checkers?

Many Square Dance Badge makers sell checkers.

I use checkers sold by Ed Foote. His snail mail address is:

ED & MARILYN FOOTE, 140 McCANDLESS DR., WEXFORD, PA 15090

Instructional tapes
Do you have any instructional tapes for mainstream and plus? Our friends have a small group, no caller.

There are some VIDEO tapes available at http://www.squaredancevideos.com/

Also contact R & R Video International; 3649 Whittier Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90023 EMAIL: randrvideo@aol.com

You can probably find some AUDIO instructional tapes at http://www.supremeaudio.com/

Ed Foote might have also have produced some tapes.

Magnetic figures
I want to get our square dance caller 6 magnetic figures so he can play with hexagon squares. Where can I purchase them?

I don't know of any place to buy them. You might try Dosado.com. I glued magnets onto regular square dance checkers and use a metal board for a background. A square dance badge maker should be able to make you a set of checkers to which you can attach magnets.

Movements
We are trying to learn some square dances. (Virginia Reel and etc.) We have a CD that has the music but we are hoping to find a video or something that can show us the actual lay outs and moves. We are homeschooling and we were hoping to teach this to our kids and the other homeschoolers as a fun way to exercise. Thank you.

For instance, the Virginia Reel is located at http://www.ceder.net/recorddb/viewsingle.php?RecordId=623

Our Links Database contains links to other sites,

In particular, we have a link to Products, one of which is a Video company, http://www.ceder.net/links/view.php#sub500.

Sets In Order
I am looking for old "Sets-In-Order" year books that have the calls in them. Where can I find them?

Sets In Order used to produce 8"x8" 'dancer handout' books that had call definitions and photographs of dancers at various stages executing the calls. (BTW, the pictures were taken at our local university, U.C.S.B.). Is this what you are referring to?

Sets In Order also used to produce a yearly 33 & 1/3 Vinyl Record Album with featured callers, which I believe sometimes listed the choreography used. Is this what you are referring to?

Two Couple C1 Tapes
Please send us any information you may have on how we can order some C1 dance tapes for two couples only. Thanks.

1. Dick Cook (RHC Enterprises) in Sacramento, CA. He sells tapes for several callers. http://www.quiknet.com/~rhc/
2. I believe that Wayne Alexander has produced some two couple tapes.

Video tapes
We're MS-dancers from Germany and would like to join a new Plus-class. To prepare ourselves, I am looking for a video tape with Plus-level. A German dealer told me, that there are none available here. He could not order any in the USA. But if I could find one, I must be sure that it is for PAL-colour. Where can I find such a video tape?

1. Gold Star Video Productions; PO BOX 215734; Sacramento CA 95821
   EMAIL: 1goldstar@netscape.net
   WEB: http://members.xoom.com/GOLDSTARVP/
   This vendor's ad explicitly states that they have PAL format.
2. R & R Video International; 3649 Whittier Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90023
   EMAIL: randrvideo@aol.com
3. Ed Foote Videos from Dave Garlock, 2107 Shunk Avenue, Alliance, Ohio 44601

I hope this helps.