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Times Squares Board Minutes for November Available Now

Read the November board minutes here. Read about the results of our first Mainstream Blast Weekend as well as our first look at the results from Peel the Pumpkin 2019 ...
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November 15, 2019 / Warren Livesley

Times Squares Board Minutes for October Available Now

Read the October minutes. Read updates for Peel the Pumpkin 2019 and January's Annual Meeting ...
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October 23, 2019 / Administrator

Times Squares Board Minutes for August and Septmeber Available Now

Read the August minutes. Read the Stonewall 50 summary. Read the September minutes. Read about the upcoming Mainstream Blast Weekend. Volunteer opportunities to set up/breakdown on club nights. Peel the ...
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September 25, 2019 / Warren Livesley

Times Squares Board Minutes for July Available Now

Read the July minutes. Plus Class will be offered for four Thursdays in September. Go Mets! Pride Night. Take me out to the ballgame! Karaoke Night for those who can ...
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August 2, 2019 / Warren Livesley

Times Squares Board Minutes for May and June Available Now

Read the May minutes. September 0utreach event: Fun Dance at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST), which serves the NYC LGBTQ community. Weekend Mainstream Blast Class in October. International Friendship dance ...
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June 15, 2019 / Administrator

Times Squares Board Minutes for April Available Now

Read the latest minutes. A great social event! Times Squares members and their friends are invited to attend a free 45-minute tour of the photo exhibitof the Stonewall era, Love ...
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April 9, 2019 / Warren Livesley

Times Squares Board Minutes for January to March Available Now

Board minutes for January and February are available. In the March minutes read about our new theme nights, Fall Mainstream Blitz weekend and more ...
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March 5, 2019 / Administrator

Times Squares Annual Meeting 2019 Minutes Available Now

Click here to read the minutes. Congratulations to Jim Babcock, Michael Coan, and Nadine Posner for being elected to the Times Squares Board. Since there was not a quorum ...
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January 7, 2019 / Warren Livesley

Times Squares Board Minutes for December Available Now

Read December's Board minutes here. Come meet prospective members at our upcoming Dance Party/Open House events on January 25, January 29 and February 5. We are more than half way ...
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December 8, 2018 / Warren Livesley

CANCELLED – A2/C1 Workshops on 12/20 and 12/17

The A2/C1 dances on December 20 and December 27 have been cancelled. Enjoy the holidays and dance with us again on January 3, 2109. With such a long break between ...
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December 8, 2018 / Warren Livesley
Featured Stories

Response to “Why At My Club?” by Roy Gotta published in the April 1994 issue of American Square Dance magazine

This letter to the editor helps us think about how brave Roy Gotta was to publish his article in a national magazine as early as he did. Dear Editor: ...
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December 7, 2019 / Administrator

“Why At My Club?” By Roy Gotta reprinted from the February 1994 issue of American Square Dance Magazine.

Now that gay and lesbian square dancers can comfortably dance in many venues, we tend to forget that this was not always the case. Roy Gotta's article appeared in ...
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December 5, 2019 / Administrator

“Don’t Cry Over Broken Squares … Fix Them! Part 4” by Allan Hurst reprinted from the May 2004 issue of Times Squared

Click here for previous part. The Last Resort Finally, there’s the method of last resort, which I’ve often heard termed “find a hole and fill it”. If you get totally ...
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November 21, 2019 / Administrator

“Don’t Cry Over Broken Squares … Fix Them! Part 3” by Allan Hurst reprinted from the May 2004 issue of Times Squared

Click here for the previous part and here for the next part. Symmetry and Image Dancers In his book, The Extemporaneous Caller, Bill Davis defines the concept of “Image ...
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November 14, 2019 / Administrator

“Don’t Cry Over Broken Squares … Fix Them! Part 2” by Allan Hurst reprinted from the May 2004 issue of Times Squared

Click here for the previous part and here for the next part. Callerlab Recovery Callerlab’s suggested method of recovery is for everyone in the broken square to return to their ...
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November 7, 2019 / Administrator

“Don’t Cry Over Broken Squares … Fix Them! Part 1” by Allan Hurst reprinted from the May 2004 issue of Times Squared

This is a great four part article about fixing broken down squares. Maybe we can implement more them in our dancing. It’s one of the ultimate cultural taboos in ...
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October 31, 2019 / Administrator

“A Limerick for Howard Richman” reprinted from the December 1987 issue of Times Squared

Yet another limerick. You should be happy we're only printing some of them. Upon meeting our curly-haired Howard, Someone said, “If I weren’t such a coward, I would ...
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October 17, 2019 / Administrator

Japanese Square Dancers are Visiting Times Squares!

Dancers from Fujilina, an international group connecting square dancers from Mt. Fuji and North Carolina, will be in New York City as they dance their way from Japan to the ...
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October 9, 2019 / Warren Livesley

“Thank you Betsy” by Richard Bearse from the May 1996 issue of Times Squared

After all these years, and we're still saying "Thank you Betsy!" Dear Editor: I had vowed a couple of years ago to stop writing letters to the editor, after my ...
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October 3, 2019 / Administrator

“You Know You’re Hooked When” by Guy Leighton from the October 1992 issue of Times Squares

Square dancing is not a disorder. Even though you might exhibit almost all of the symptoms below. You Know You’re Hooked When: You walk into a room and figure ...
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September 19, 2019 / Administrator
Dance Calendar

  1. Club Night with Howard Richman

    Tuesday December 10 at6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

  2. A1 Class/C1 Workshop #9 with Betsy Gotta

    Thursday December 12 at6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

  3. Holiday All-Level Dance Party with Todd Fellegy

    Saturday December 14 at4:00 pm - 9:30 pm

  4. Dance Party with Howard Richman

    Tuesday December 17 at7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  5. A1 Class/C1 Workshop #10 with Betsy Gotta

    Thursday December 19 at6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

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Peel the Pumpkin

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Hilton Hasbrouck Heights

October 30 - November 1, 2020

Howard Richman, Michael Kellogg,
Todd Fellegy

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