Travis Cook and his wife, Dorothy, live in Crestwood, Kentucky, just outside Louisville. Both grew up in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky — Travis in Knott County and Dorothy in Perry County.
Travis started square dancing around 2002, drawn in (honestly) by the good meals at the dances. A few years later, he met Dorothy there.
He learned to dance under Joe Lowe and started calling shortly afterward. In 2004 he became the club caller for a club in Hazard, Kentucky. The next year he left the mountains for the University of Louisville. He called less during college, but after graduating in fall 2010 he was soon back at it, mentored in dancing and calling Advanced and Challenge by Kenny Jarvis and Sparky Sparks.
Today Travis works full time in healthcare technology and travels throughout the region calling up through C1. He joined the staff of Royal Records in 2021, served as Vice Chairman of Squares for the Evansville and Mobile National Square Dance Conventions, and sits on several convention boards in the area.
Travis and Dorothy have two children, Thomas and Anna, who are regulars at local events.
