This article describes an approach to teaching square dance that is advantageous for both the teacher and students. Lessons in dance become more meaningful to students when the music and vocabulary is consistent with experiences in their own lives. When students create their own squaring to the rap, lessons become more student-centered, encouraging them to take more responsibility in the learning process. Traditional square dance can be introduced as a type of "rapping," since the "calls" are linked to basic movements as colorful phrases or rhymes. In the end, a common experience for students who learn to dance either traditional square dance or squaring to the rap is the joy of a "community" of dancers who move smoothly from one sequence of calls, or raps, to the next.