Friday Night Waltz

Friday Night Waltz has mostly Waltzes in the dances and classes, along with Polka,Tango, and Cha Cha. People come from all over the Bay Area, including San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Rosa, San Rafael, and Santa Cruz. People are friendly, and the atmosphere is warm and welcoming. Partners are not needed as we rotate rapidly in classes. Casual comfortable attire. All ages. Tickets at the door. $15 general, $10 students with id. no separate pricing for dance only. Cash, Checks, debit/credit cards. Please wear your n95 or kn 95 mask. We have free bottles of water, masks, hand wipes, gloves. due to covid, we will not be serving refreshments. Please no cotton masks. . Bring vax card, Stanford green card, cell phone QR, or printed QR. 625 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto upstairs. Parking in rear parking lot. contact: info@FridayNightWaltz.com Facebook page: or http://www.FridayNightWaltz.com Copyright © 2001-2022 Scott Gamble

Friday Night Waltz is now safer than ever. We have conducted Carbon Dioxide tests. A level of 400 is what you find outside. A level of 800 begins to become poor air. When we activate our powerful fans, the CO2 level in our dance hall is 400, same as outside. Any covid in the hall air is evacuated along with the excess CO2 in just a few minutes. With mask requirements, free masks, vax card requirements, free water bottles, free gloves, purex bottles, and email addresses for contact tracing, we feel that we have minimized possible spread. There is no possiblity of 100% prevention, but we feel that we have made FNW as safe as we can. Thanks for cooperating in making FNW a healthy and safe and FUN! environment.

After two and a half years of dancing drought, the Couple Dancing classes are returning!

Tuesday nights, October 4 to November 8

A six-week series of partnered social dance classes

Downtown Palo Alto (only 12 minutes from campus by bike, 8 minutes by car)

Taught by Richard Powers and Rocky Aikens with Annika Mauro

7 pm - Introduction to Waltz taught by Richard and Rocky

Cross-Step, Rotary and Viennese Waltz. The most romantic partner dance of all. Get ready now for dance parties, weddings, Friday Night Waltz, and the Stanford Viennese Ball!

8 pm - Introduction to Swing taught by Richard and Rocky

Swing is not just one dance but a family of some of the most popular dances around today! Learn three types of swing: 4-count, 6-count, and triple step swing. Bring a friend or two—they'll thank you.

9 pm - All-Levels West Coast Swing Foundations taught by Rocky

WCS is the smooth, popular youngest sibling in the swing family, danced to many of the songs you hear on the radio! Whether you're new to WCS or you want to return to basics to master your fundamentals, this is the class for you.

$40 for students $55 for non-students for each of the three courses.

Each of the three courses includes six Tuesday night classes.

Come with or without a partner.

All details and online registration are here.

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Spaces often fill up!

Richard Powers teaches classes with Annika Mauro from 7:15 to 9 pm. Richard is our dance music DJ from 9pm to midnight.

7:15 - Cross-Step Waltz - Learn the basics plus some variations and the Cross-Step Waltz Mixer. Also learn how to transition from Cross-Step to Rotary Waltz. Richard is acknowledged as the world's foremost expert in cross-step waltz, teaching cross-step waltz workshops around the world.

8:10 - Rotary Waltz - This is the original waltz, also known as the Natural Turn Waltz, widely danced around the world. If you already waltz, brush up on what you've forgotten during the pandemic, with dozens of pointers to make your dancing even better, or just for the joy of dancing. If you're a beginner, please arrive at 7:15 for the first steps.

This class is the ideal way to ramp up your waltzing for Friday Night Waltz and elsewhere. These are ALL-LEVELS CLASSES, no previous experience required.

9 pm - Full Moon Dance Party will feature Richard's favorite dance music plus some premieres. Waltz, swing, polka, cha cha, cross-step waltz, BNP, salsa, Tokyo Polka, Lindy, tango, Romany Polka, WCS, hustle, blues and more!

10.14 Long time friend, dancer extraordinaire, and fab choreographer Anna Botelho is back teaching. Yay! lucky us!

Doors open at 6:45.
$15 everyone tickets at the door. $10 for students with ID.
Cash, Check, Credit Card. Tickets at the door.
No partner necessary. We rotate rapidly in class.
All Ages. Casual comfortable attire.
Please wear your N95 or KN95 mask. We have free N95 or KN95 masks.
We cannot allow cotton masks anymore.
Bring vax card, Stanford green card, cell phone QR, or printed QR.
First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto CA. x Byron, Upstairs Fellowship hall.
Parking in rear parking lot. Many on street parking spaces available.
Very large parking structure one block away, Webster/Cowper garage.
We are providing free bottles of water.
http://www.fridaynightwaltz.com

12.31 New Year's Eve Ball

We have tentative agreement to rent the Oakland Scottish Rite Center for our New Year's Eve Ball. Dancing from 9 to midnight. Doors open at 8pm. This is a full dress up elegant attire dance evening with live music. The format will be very similar to the normal Friday Night Waltz with additional line dances, mixers and set dances. Waltz, polka, one step, cha cha, tango, swing, congress of vienna, t'smidge, cross step mixer, Sir Roger, Strip the Willow and more. No partner necessary. We expect to have 2-3 hours of introductory waltz classes in the afternoon. Admission will likely be $35 to $40. We expect attendance will be 200 to 250.