Susan English

Secretary-elect

Susan English (Wooster, OH) taught her first dance class on a rooftop in China in 1980. In 2017, she returned to China with a $50,000 cultural exchange grant from the U.S. State Department featuring the Country Dancers of Berea, KY. With work and living experience with diverse groups in Europe, China, West Africa, and the U.S., Susan brings her enthusiasm for people of every background.

Susan has called monthly contra and old-time square dances since 1990, as well as ECD since 2000. She and her late husband, Bill Alkire, co-developed the intergenerational program at Terpsichore’s Dance Holiday. On the road, Susan has called contra and square dances across the Midwest, plus gender-free workshops in waltz, schottische, hambo, polka, salsa, and East Coast swing. At home, Susan is in demand for weddings and barn dances, plus homeschool, Civil War, and Jane Austen balls.

Susan writes and publishes a dance blog, woosterdance.com. With her PhD in higher education and consulting experience with strategic evaluation, Susan cares a lot about quality programs for lifelong growth and learning.