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.

Beginning Swing Dancing with Richard Powers at Friday Night Waltz, 5/16

Swing dance is a regular on every FNW playlist, so here is a great chance to learn or improve it. Many people call this East Coast Swing, to differentiate it from West Coast Swing, but it's actually the most widely known and danced kind of swing in the world, also known as Jitterbug.

Swing dancing can be enthusiastic or silly. It's expressive and welcoming. It’s impossible to be in a bad mood while swing dancing!

If you already swing dance, would you like to learn some new figures and styling? Do you know all three kinds of East Coast Swing? Here is your chance! If you swing dance, bring a friend who doesn't.

Richard Powers teaches tonight's classes.

7:15pm - Four Count Swing. This is the easiest timing, to let beginners focus on the figures and partnering. It's also called 4-count Hustle and Bugg. These swing moves are common in many other social dances, like cross-step waltz and salsa, so this class will teach you connection and skills that you can use in all of your dancing.

8:15pm - Six Count and Triple Step Swing. In this second class, we'll do the same steps and figures, but in 6-count timing. Why? Because it fits a lot of swing music better, and because millions of dancers around the world know and love it, and you'll want to be able to dance with them. Then triple step 6-count swing is the icing on the cake!

9 pm - Dance Party! Waltz, swing, polka, cha cha, cross-step waltz, BNP, salsa, Tokyo Polka, Lindy, tango, Romany Polka, WCS, hustle and more.

For those who don't know about Richard Powers, he is one of the world's foremost experts in social dance. He has taught dance in Paris, London, Rome, Venice, Prague, Vienna, Geneva, Seville, Edinburgh, Krakow, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tokyo and Kyoto, including 29 workshops in France (teaching in French), 28 in Japan (teaching in Japanese), and 22 in Russia (not teaching in Russian). Richard is currently the full-time social dance instructor at Stanford University.

This Friday, May 16th

Doors open at 6:45.

Classes start at 7:15. Please arrive 15 minutes early to avoid the rush.

$15 general. $10 for students with ID.

Cash, Check, Credit Card, Apple Pay. We do not accept Venmo. Tickets at the door.

No partner necessary. We rotate rapidly in class.

All Ages. Casual comfortable attire.

Masks are optional. Free Masks. Free bottles of water.

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First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto CA, upstairs Fellowship Hall.

Parking in rear parking lot. Many on-street parking spaces available.

Large Webster/Cowper parking garage one block away.

http://www.fridaynightwaltz.com

05.23.2025 Lucas is djing tonight.