Visitors From California

February 28, 2011 we were fortunate to receive the visit of fellow square dancers from San José, California. Our four new friends, who are vacationing in Puerto Rico after their cruise, stayed throughout our class and danced with us.

They are also members of the Committee to Promote Square Dancing and they shared ideas on how we can attract more dancers to our club. We are very happy and excited that they visited with us and we hope to maintain contact with them. We invite you to visit their website to promote square dancing, www.c-p-s-d.org and the website for their club www.rockinjokers.com .

We also celebrated this quarter's birthdays. Congratulations to all!

For some videos of this visit, go to www.youtube.com and search "sjsquare".

Back to School January 2011

San Juan Squares started the new year 2011 with a new course of the Square Dance Basic Course. New students have already learned the very basic steps and are able to dance a few numbers. José Julio has been taking care of the new students while Mariel has continued practice with graduates. We have also had different dancers (Gloria, Lorraine, Karlos), direct the line dances at the beginning of the class. They are all doing a great job.

Dance Exhibitions

San Juan Squares have been very active through 2010. In addition to the weekly classes, we have had several exhibitions throughout the year.

• June 10 we danced at Hogar La Providencia, San Juan.
• July 3 we danced at the BBQ contest held at Centro Convenciones, Miramar.
• July 26 we danced at the children's summer camp at the Methodist Church at Rio Piedras Heights.
• On August 3 we danced for Programa Renacer Dorado at Bayamón.
• On August 14 we danced at the Central High Class Reunion.
• On October 3 we danced at the Teresa Jornet's home in Rio Piedras.
• On October 28 we danced at Hogar Carmelitano in Rio Piedras.
• On November 13 we danced at the Margarita Janer's Class Reunion in Guaynabo.
• On December 11 we danced for the AARP's Hato Rey chapter.

In addition to all these dances, we were interviewed and our class of June 28, 2010 recorded for a segment in the Cultura Viva TV show, broadcast on local Channel 6, WIPR TUTV during the month of August.

You can see videos of these activities at www.youtube.com, search for "sjsquare".

Christmas 2010

San Juan Squares held a graduation ceremony on December 6, 2010. Our new dancers are all doing great. Congratulations!!

The Christmas Party was held in conjunction with the BaileTerapia ballroom dance group on December 13, 2010.

To watch videos of this activity go to www.youtube.com and look for sjsquare and there you will find 4 videos of this party.

Visitors

On Monday, September 6, 2010 we were happy to receive the visit of fellow square dancers from Germany. They had come to visit Puerto Rico for two weeks, and contacted us for a visit. We enjoyed their visit very much, and we all danced together and had a great time. Here are some photos.

September 2010

Many things have happened since we last published news on this page. We reorganized our club and elected a Board of Directors in April. Our club has 46 active members, who participate in weekly classes and in exhibitions. You can see some of our classes and exhibitions in http://www.youtube.com/ .

We had a graduation in June 2010. Here is a picture of our graduates,

and of our group.

If you wish to see videos of the activity go to www.youtube.com/watch?tv=yhGyGD1JmaE

We have done some exhibitions:

• The day after graduation we held an exhibition at the retirement home La Providencia in Old San Juan.
• We danced at the Miramar Convention Center on July 3rd, 2010 during the Cattleman's BBQ Contest.
• On July 26, 2010 we visited the children's summer camp held by Iglesia Metodista of Rio Piedras Heights where we danced and taught the children and teachers to square dance and to line dance.
• We danced for the group Renacer Dorado at the Bayamon Municipal Library on August 3rd, 2010
• We also performed at the Central High School Reunion, Class of 1954, on August 14, 2010.

We have been very active and expect to continue dancing through the year. We continue with our classes every Monday, so feel welcome to come and visit us anytime.

More videos of 3/15/2010

We line danced and square danced, practicing the steps we learned that night.