Great Plain Squares

Welcome to Great Plain Squares  in
Needham, Massachusetts

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Hello fellow round and square dancers.  


This is current information about the Great Plain Squares season and our next events.

Come and dance with us every Wednesday.


Our next square dance class starts September 12, 2012. Click here to see our flyer.


 

We have a lot of exciting events coming up. Here is the list with the dates.

Wednesday May 9. Pie night.

Saturday May 19. TriClub dance at Fairs N Squares in Framingham.

Wednesday May 30. Ice-cream night and last Wednesday of dancing for the season.

Saturday June 2. Dinner Dance featuring our caller and cuers. This is a pot-luck dinner at 6 p.m. and dancing at 8 p.m. All are welcome to the pot-luck dinner.

Come to one event or come to all of our events. 

 

 

 


It is time to think of summer! The TriClub Summer dance is scheduled for August 18th. Mark your calendar now. We have a fantastic team of Steve Park and Phil Gatchell to entertain us. The hall is a nice wood floor with air conditioning. The location is First Parish Unitarian Church at 23 Dedham Ave in Needham. We will be dancing alternating plus and M/S with an A1 tip. Enjoy your summer but make sure you are here on August 18th for our TriClub dance.


If you have Internet access and can read Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) data on your computer, you can print the entire set of definitions from the official source via following URL:

What are you doing on Wednesdays? Why not come down and visit our club and have a fun time. We have round dancing and square dancing. We have Bob Butler and various guests. These are our square dance callers. We have Phil Gatchell and Scott Cohen. These are our round dance cuers.

Wednesday nights throughout the year:

square dancing class 7 PM to 8:15 PM

club dancing 8:15 to 10 PM

Dance Locations: See Map to Great Plain Squares
Wednesday Nights: Carter Memorial Church,800 Highland Avenue, Needham MA
Friday Night: First Parish Church of Westwood, 340 Clapboard Street, Westwood Ma
Saturday Nights: Carter Memorial Church,800 Highland Avenue, Needham MA 

Club Callers:  Bob Butler 
Club Cuers: 
Phil Gatchell and Scott Cohen

 

Mail: PO Box 920642, Needham, MA 02492-0008
E-mail: greatplainsquares@yahoo.com
Phone: 781.801.0725

Come join us:
Wednesday Nights - On Wednesday nights we extend a warm welcome to club dancers. Stop by and join the fun!

Saturday Nights - We host Mainstream and Plus level dances 8:00 to 11:00 PM. See our Monthly dance schedule for Great Plain Squares for specific information.


 

For the class handbook you can view it here. For the class schedule you can view it here.

 

 

This is a picture of the graduating class of 2011!!! 


To learn more about classes or our club contact us by E-mail:
greatplainsquares@yahoo.com 

 

For more Great Plain Squares photos of dancers you can view it here.

 


 

Reading Library

 

The Great Plain Squares is in the news again! Our local paper, covered the New Years Needham event on December 31, 2010. They featured two photos of GPS dancers. Click here and check out picture #1 and #7. The following week we had a letter to the editor written by Co-President Paul Howard. Here is that letter.

 

Needham Times, did a full page article on our club in September 2009 from the viewpoint of a High School Student. To see the article about the Great Plain Squares Click Here  

To see an article that was written a number of years ago in 2007 about the Great Plain Squares click here. To see the slide show from 2007 about the Great Plain Squares click here. Turn up your sound for the slide show. Happy reading.

Square dancing is good for you. Read an article on WebMD that talks about the healthy benefits of square dancing. WebMD article about square dance click here.

 

The Wall Street Journal is into Square Dancing. Here is an article that was in the December 16, 2009 issue. It talks about the image of square dancing and attracting younger dancers. Click Wall Street Journal for the article.


Have you ever seen Tractor Square Dancing? NO! Well click here for the video.