Friday Night Waltz has mostly waltzes in the dances and classes, along with polka, tango, swing, and salsa. People come from all over the Bay Area. People are friendly, The atmosphere is warm and welcoming. Partners are not needed. We rotate rapidly in classes. Casual comfortable attire. All ages. To get on our email list, send request to email list: info@FridayNightWaltz.com Facebook page: or scott phone number

Masks are optional.

11.07.2025 Joan is teaching Hesitation Waltz and ragtime era mixers. John Bauer is djing.

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Joan Walton

Joan Walton is a Vintage Dance Teacher and Choreographer who has taught Vintage dance workshops across the United States, Russia and Europe. Her high-energy, focused teaching, and choreographic style have become well known to Vintage dancers over the past years. She has performed all over the United States, including at the Smithsonian, on the TV mini-series North and South, and with the Vintage Dance Ensemble at Stanford University. Her choreographies have been performed from coast to coast by Vintage and university dance companies. Joan is a graduate of Stanford's Dance Education Master's degree program, and is currently teaching, choreographing and residing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joan.walton.dance/ and email at jcwalton@gmail.com

7:15 HESITATION WALTZ: The Ragtime era graced us with an elegant dance called the Hesitation Waltz, danced to fast waltz music. We will learn short, easy patterns from Vernon Castle's book and other useful variations.

8:00RAGTIME ERA MIXERS: Learn a couple of easy Waltz and Tango mixers from the early 20th century, to be performed later that evening.

John Bauer dj dance music waltz, polka, swing, mixers, line dances 9:00-11:45

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John Bauer

John Bauer has been at Friday Night Waltz since the very beginning. When he's not dancing, John enjoys Dance Dance Revolution, working at Stanford NLP, and driving his kids to the rink.