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Alameda Vintage Dance Ensemble	The Alameda Vintage Dance Ensemble performs original dance performance recreations, original ballet works, and original group choreography dances to classical romantic music. Lead by Denise Brady, the Alameda Vintage Dance Ensemble has performed at Friday Night Waltz, Peers, and many other events.
Angela Amarillas	Angela, who has assisted Richard in his classes and workshops for the past ten years, was Stanford University's first Dance Minor. Angela is a graceful dancer who shares Richard's passion for historical and vernacular social dance. Richard and Angela have taught and performed in Rome, Prague, Venice, London, Paris, and St. Petersburg as well as across the U.S. Angela offers instruction for all soon-to-be-newlyweds who would like to elegantly dance around the dance floor for the first time as husband and wife. If you are interested in receiving lessons, you may e-mail her at angela@waffle.net
Anna Botelho	Anna Botelho has previously taught classes at Friday Night Waltz. Anne started dancing at age 4, and has barely gotten off the floor since. She studied jazz throughout her childhood, as well as learning tap and musical theater dance by performing in over 30 musical theater productions. Anna double majored in English and Music at Yale University - intending to become an orchestral and choral conductor. Anne frequently teaches at schools - she has been a guest instructor at Yale University and Stanford University. Anna teaches at her home studio, Starlite Dance Club, where she has been top teacher for the last 2 years and has won top solo performance awards, and was placed with the top teacher award at the International Grand Ball in San Francisco! Anna is the choreographer for Waltz Madness.. Anna's website email dancer at gmail dot com
Cin Barnes	Cin considers no dance style too outre. For 20 years, she has been dancing, costuming and performing with a number of Bay Area groups, including the Butterfly Bloomers Can-can troupe at San Juan Bautista, and Dickens Faire. Cin was a founding member of Danse Libre. She both danced and held comic roles Stanford Vintage Dance Ensemble. She choreographed a 20s styled "Trial By Jury" for Stanford Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Lately, she's spending lots of time with Rennaissance dance forms and currently translating her second 15th c Burgundian dance manual.
Brassworks	The Brassworks performs a wide range of musical styles: renaissance, baroque, classical & romantic, folk & fiddle tunes, marches, ragtime, Dixieland, blues, swing, rock, Motown, Latin, Broadway show tunes and concert works. The Band's specialty--to which our first album is devoted--is period ballroom music from 18th and 19th century Europe and America. Frank Beau Davis director. Brassworks' website
Baguette Quartette	The Baguette Quartette is a San Francisco Bay Area group that plays music that was heard in Paris between 1920 and 1940 on street corners, in cafes, and in popular dance halls. Led by accordionist Odile Lavault, its repertoire consists of valses musettes, tangos, pasos dobles, fox trots, marches and realistic songs. Baguette Quartette website
Lilli Ann Carey	Lilli Ann Carey began partner dancing as an adult when the draw of community, the music and of course the pure delight of dance made her a complete convert. She loves dancing a wide variety of partner dance styles, but focuses her teaching primarily on Waltz, Zydeco, various swing versions, Foxtrot, and One-step/Blues. Lilli Ann is based in Seattle where she teaches weekly with Living Traditions and Dance! On Bainbridge and promotes dance through classes, workshops and events through her own company Dance for Joy! She has also taught several times in the DC area, Portland, Eugene and the SF Bay area. Her sense of humor, critical analysis and right-on observations about partner dance lead to a fun and effective learning environment. Lilli Ann can be reached through her website http://www.danceforjoy.biz
Campbell Keatinge-Clay	Campbell Keatinge-Clay has partnered Richard Powers in classes for many years and completed a Dance Minor at Stanford University, where she earned the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, the Dance Division's highest arts award. She is passionate about many forms of dance and teaches Waltz, Swing, and Blues, along with several solo dance forms such as Tap and Jazz. Campbellloves to perform and has credits with Stanford Vintage Dance Ensemble, Swing Cats Rhythm Revue, Academy of Danse Libre, and Knotts Dance Company. Email Campbell to find out about group and private lessons: campbell at stanfordalumni.org
Carla Heiney	Carla's Website Carla and Kevin hold the titles of two time American Lindy Hop Champions for 2001 & 2002, two time US Open Lindy Hop Champions for 2001 & 2002, 4 TIme US Open Champions (2001 - 2004), 2005 World Lindy Hop Champions in the Improvisation division, and two time North Atlantic Lindy Hop Champions for 2002 & 2003.They have taught all over the world, from Australia, to Korea to Great Britain to Germany to Spain to Sweden to France. Kevin and Carla teach swing and Lindy at the Foresters Hall in Redwood City.
Academy of Danse Libre	Danse Libre, our namesake dance, was created by the students of the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840's. With liberated spirits, they took the intricate steps that they had learned as children in dancing school and "exploded" them into bounds, kicks and extravagant capers. The Academy of Danse Libre is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the lively exhibition of 19th and early 20th century social dances. We aspire to create a vivid picture of the mayhem and joyful passion of the Victorian ballroom, in the spirit of our namesakes.Academy of Danse Libre website
Ed Loomis	Ed Loomis has been dancing Argentine Tango for ten years and now teaches and organizes tango events in Sacramento, California. Ed focuses his instruction on lead/follow dynamics for improvisation and musicality. He began his studies with Nora Dinzelbacher in Berkeley in 1994 and has continued his studies with numerous tango maestros, in particular Carlos Gavito and Oscar Mandagaran. Since 1995 Ed has attended all but one of the Tango Weeks held first at Stanford University and then under Nora Dinzelbacher in Emeryville and is currently on staff with Nora's Tango Week.. He has a special love for Vals Cruzada which he will be presenting with Karen Tierney.
Edoardo Maragliano	Edoardo's Website Edoardo Maragliano is director for The Academy of Danse Libre, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the lively exhibition of 19th and early 20th century social dances. He has appeared with many Bay Area dance troupes, including the Stanford Vintage Dance Ensemble, Danse Libre, Radical Vintage, Stanford Viennese Ball, and Decadance. Edoardo has choreographed many dances.
Gail Barton	Gail Barton MA in PE with a Dance Emphasis from SF State University. Dual Fellow in US Terpsichore Association, & Certificated Integral Yoga Instructor. Currently teaching Ballroom, Latin, International Folk Dance, Production & Yoga at CCSF, she has also taught ballet, swing, tap, & modern dance for the department since 1981. Ms Barton has served as a Judge for the SF Ethnic Dance Festival on numerous occasions since 1989. She was a Panelist for the Dance Panel of the California Arts Commission & a Regional Vice President for the California Dance Educator’s Association. As a dancer, choreographer & artistic director in the Khadra Ethnic Music & Dance Ensemble, she performed in up to 60 shows a year, including the Renaissance Faire, Zellerbach Hall, & Home Seasons at the Palace of Fine Arts. She has also taught at Stanford University, where she directed the Dunai Ensemble, SF State University, University of SF & Mercy High School, Burlingame. Picture of Gail and her first swing dance teacher, her father.
James Shattuck	James has been djing for Friday Night Waltz for some time. James is well known at Dickens Christmas Faire, Peers, Gaskells.
Karen Tierney	Karen Tierney has been involved with both social dancing and it's history for many years. First with Richard Powers, as student and performer in California, Paris, Prague, St. Petersburg and Ireland and as an assistant in the organization and running Stanford Dance Weeks. She has held a board of directors position with Stanford's "Friends of Dance" and danced with Danse Libre for 4 years. Karen has studied dance in Paris and Argentina with several masters in both Vintage dance and Argentine Tango. She has taught French Tango with a visiting teacher from France and Argentine Tango with Fabian Salas at Stanford Danc e weeks. Karen now teaches private dance lessons as well as teaching design at a local University.
Jamie Furr	Jamie's Website Jamie Furr has been dancing for many years and performed briefly with the South Bay Lindy troupe SFBounce! She has studied many styles of dancing and is a graduate of the Ballroom Dance Teachers College in San Francisco. While Jamie enjoys different styles of dance, she has a special passion for partner dancing. In March 2004 Jamie opened her own dance studio, Studio J, in San Francisco, where she currently teaches group classes and private lessons.
James Kleinrath	James Kleinrath is the United States Amateur Ballroom Dance Association's National Champion (1999-2001). In March 2002 James won the Amateur American Smooth Open Championship at the San Francisco Open DanceSport championships. Currently, James is a popular social dance teacher with many students in San Francisco.
Jerry Duke	. Dr. Jerry Duke is Professor of Dance Ethnology and History and Coordinator for the Dance Program of Studies at SFSU. He also serves as Coordinator of Academic Program Review for the university. His research on dance and ritual extends through the U.S. and Europe, and to parts of Asia and the Pacific. He is former president of the Congress on Research in Dance. He has set folk and historical choreographies for dance companies, theater productions and opera. His folk choreographies have been performed in seven European countries and at Carnegie Hall in New York, Ahmanson Theater, Royce Hall, and Mark Tabor Forum in Los Angeles, Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and the Seattle Opera House. He produced three dance specials for educational television and choreographed for a Bob Hope Special at Hollywood Bowl.
Joan Walton	Joan's Website Joan Walton is a Vintage Dance Teacher and Choreographer Vintage Dance Classes and San Diego Vintage Dance Week Joan Walton has taught Vintage dance workshops across the United States, Australia 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, 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 recent graduate of Stanford's Dance Education Master's degree program, and is currently teaching, choreographing and residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. JOAN WALTON will offer private dance lessons for couples, by pre-arrangement, 11:45-12:45 on the dates of Waltz by the Waves & Waltz Classes: $80./hr.$40./half hour: jcwalton@stanfordalumni.org
John Bauer	John has been ballroom dancing for years. Recently he DJed at the Big Dance at Stanford, and has DJed for the SwingKids group at Stanford.
Leslie Gordon	Leslie has been teaching and djing salsa and tango for years at the Stanford Bechtel International Center, as well as Steppin Out dance club in Sunnyvale. Lesie has also djed at Cell Space Tango in San Francisco several times. She also teaches and djs weekly at Ultimate Tango in Palo Alto.
Maria Reese	Maria Reese co-founded Swingtime and co-directed Urban Styles jazz dance troupe, and has performed with Decadance, Salseros, the Stanford Vintage Dance Ensemble, Jam Pac'd and the Stanford Dollies. Maria also taught dance for community service groups and did a dance therapy internship at a New York psychiatric center. Maria has assisted Richard Powers in his classes for the past three years.
Ryan and Monica Shen Knotts	Ryan and Monica's Website Ryan Knotts and Monica Shen Knotts’ clear instruction and attention to partnering has been featured at the Stanford University dance weeks and other workshops for the last nine years. They teach vintage and social dance with an energetic focus on a personal style. As the directors of the Knotts Dance Company (KDC), founding members of Danse Libre, and assistant directors of the Stanford Vintage Dance Ensemble, they have taught classes and performed throughout the western United States, in Paris, St. Petersburg, and Prague. Recent projects include a return engagement to teach at Stanford Waltz Week and directing the concert "Stepping Out," showcasing their choreographies for KDC, Danse Libre, and Stanford Swingtime.
Patty Ting	Patty's Website Patty Ting enjoys vintage dance with the Academy of Danse Libre and swings with SF Bounce! She has taught swing and aerials classes at the Menlo Academy of Dance. She often assists Edoardo Maragliano and Joan Walton at Friday Night Waltz.
Richard Powers	Richard's Website Stanford Faculty page Richard Powers is one of the world's foremost experts in American social dance, noted for his choreographies for dozens of stage productions and films, and his workshops across the country, in Paris, Prague, London, Rome, Geneva, Russia, and Japan. He has been researching and reconstructing historic social dances for twenty-five years and is currently a full-time instructor at Stanford's Dance Division. Selected by the Centennial Issue of Stanford Magazine as one of Stanford University's most notable graduates of its first century. Awarded the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for distinctive and exceptional contributions to education at Stanford University. (1999). Teaches social dance forms of North America and directs the 70-member Stanford Vintage Dance Ensemble. Faculty liason to Friends of Dance at Stanford. Joined the Dance Faculty in 1992.
Persephone	Persephone's Website Persephone,a co-founder of Friday Night Waltz, along with Scott Gamble and Tom Hill, has DJed many times for Friday Night Waltz. Persephone is a long time swing dance teacher and DJ.
Tom Hill	Tom Hill has been dancing vintage and modern social dance for over 10 years. He has taught at the Gaskell Ball, the Dickens Fair, and has been teaching at Friday Night Waltz since its inception.A co-founder of Friday Night Waltz with Scott and Persephone. He has studied with Richard Powers, Joan Walton and with Diane Jarmolow, at the Ballroom Dance Teacher's College. He also organized the Dance Teaching Lab in Palo Alto, which gave aspiring social dance teachers a place to hone their teaching skills.
Scott Gamble	Scott started Friday Night Waltz with co-founders Persephone and Tom Hill. Scott also produced several Formal Waltz Balls, including Friday Night Waltz's annual, along with "Bastille Day Waltz Ball", "Romantic Waltz Ball", and the annual "Waltz Macabre Halloween Ball" along with the "New Year's Eve Waltz Ball". Scott also produces"Waltz Workshop", and the various "Dance Samplers", a popular day of introductory social dances.
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