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Square Dance Club

Saratoga, California

Top Cats is a square dance club that primarily dances the C-3A program of modern square dancing, as defined by CALLERLAB. As part of this, from time to time we offer classes for dancers who are interested in learning C-2 and C-3A.

Expectations

For dancers interested in learning C-2:

  • Based on classes previously taken and current experience dancing C-1 or previous experience dancing C-2, students should be reasonably familiar with basic Challenge dancing skills.
  • Students must commit to studying before each class session the calls to be introduced in that session.
  • Students should plan to attend class regularly and to attend for the full time of each session.
  • Students should be currently dancing C-1 on a regular basis (e.g., at Interlocked), and preferably also be dancing Advanced and/or APD Plus (e.g., at Quads) on a regular basis, and plan to continue such additional dancing throughout the class season.

For dancers interested in learning C-3A:

  • All of the above, plus...
  • Students should have knowledge of all the calls on the C-2 list.
  • Students should have experience dancing (successfully) with phantoms at Plus and/or Advanced.

Most Recent Classes

We held a C-2 class that ran from November 2015 through August 2016. You may want to review the syllabus for that class -- future classes are likely to be structured similarly.

In 2017-2018 we did workshopping to familarize several people with the C-3A calls.

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted a "virtual dancing" workshop in which we reviewed most of the calls and concepts of C-2 and C-3A.

If you might be interested in being part of a future class, please let us know by contacting Joe Dehn at jwd3@dehnbase.org.

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