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Recent Examples of square danceAnd the evening winds down with a festival-wide square dance led by KC Heil’s All-Star Dance Band.—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026 For less than $100, Sacramento travelers can experience the night-life of Las Vegas, square dance in Texas and get coffee in Seattle.—Sacbee.com, 6 Mar. 2026 The Wranglers Sq6uare Dance Club is starting a new learn to square dance class.—Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025 Workshops, square dances, free banjo lessons, and a celebrity chef biscuit bake-off are also planned.—Marcus K. Dowling, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for square dance
Some sponsors have pulled out of the celebrations Last year, some big corporations stopped contributing to Pride events.
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Geoff Mulvihill,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2026
Initially this brought an overdue celebration of figures, like Fred Eversley, Jack Whitten, and Howardena Pindell, who had been working within high-modernist modes but had been discriminated against by white curators, dealers, and critics.
While the film’s presence at the festival has sparked some controversy, Tribeca co-founder Jane Rosenthal defended the move to Variety, claiming the film should be looked at within the context of the ongoing Iran war.
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Corbin Bolies,
Variety,
3 June 2026
On the feature side, the festival includes three competitions for narrative, documentary, and international films, with other sections devoted to cutting-edge cinema in Viewpoints and a substantial short film program.
Likewise, in 2025 contestant Huda Mustafa’s shimmy became a popular dance move that fans posted themselves doing on social.
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Carolyn Burt,
Oc Register,
29 May 2026
The contemporary dance troupe closes out a 20-year run with its final three hometown shows, including works by choreographers Fernando Magadan, Cayetano Soto, Joan Rodriguez, Richard Siegal and Trey McIntyre.
Robert had spent the last few years accruing credit card points—more on that below—in the hopes of planning a blowout honeymoon experience for the wanderlusting couple, who had previously traveled together to romantic destinations like Japan and the south of France.
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Kaitlin Menza,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 June 2026
The posts criticizing White's coaching decisions, rotations and accountability picked up real traction across Clark-heavy corners of X after the blowout.
And that, in 1990, the Valentine’s Day masquerade ball at the George Hotel in Rye, Sussex, featured Lady Chatterley’s Lover’s Soup.
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Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
The long shadow of the occupation Twenty-three years after George Bush and Tony Blair resolved that Iraqis were to be emancipated, the country remains captive to a masquerade of power.
The younger generation is far less interested in cultural philanthropy, and increasingly, the gala class lives a life radically distant from most Americans.
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Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Before heading to a Tribeca Film Festival reception later in the evening, Katie Holmes took the thong sandal from gala dressing back to denim on Monday, wearing Malone Souliers’ Koko Embossed Thong Sandals while out in New York City.