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 Masks are optional. Free water bottles.

10.11 Irish music and ceili night!

7:15 Bob and Kayla will be teaching easy beginner Irish dances

8:00 Bob and Kayla will be teaching Irish set dances.

We do this only once a year, not to be missed!

9:00 -11:45 Ken and Deanna are playing wonderful Irishe and scottish themese waltzed and polkas. Great fun music

Doors open at 6:45.
Classes start at 7:15. Please arrive 15 minutes early to avoid the rush.

10.18

Salsa Rueda night! our very popular salsa rueda night is back!

Ken, Deanna, and Bandana Bob are teaching and djing very popular salsa rueda night

see youthen!

Doors open at 6:45.
Classes start at 7:15. Please arrive 15 minutes early to avoid the rush.

10.25 Vintage Dance Reunion. Long time ago there was a group the Stanford Vintage Dance Ensemble

For ten years the Stanford Vintage Dance Ensemble performed early versions of today's social dances. The group was comprised of up to 85 Stanford students (at it's largest) with a wide variety of dance training and experience. Vintage performed dances from many eras, in full costume, including the Regency Era, 1830s Paris, the mid-19th century dance craze, Ragtime, Roaring Twenties, the Swing Era and the dances of today and beyond (Radical Vintage). Performances included Stanford's Ragtime and Viennese Balls, the Big Dance, a concert at the Smithsonian Institution, the filming of "Spring Awakenings" plus exhibitions in Japan, Paris, Prague and St. Petersburg. Many of the dances and dancers of the Vintage Dance Ensemble continue today within Danse Libre, Swingtime and decadance.

Friday Night Waltz is very happy to host this reunion of the Stanford Vintage Dance Ensemble

Richard Powers is our instructor and dj tonight.

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.

Doors open at 6:45.
Classes start at 7:15. Please arrive 15 minutes early to avoid the rush.

Richard Powers is our instructor from 7:15 to 9:00

Richard Powers is our dj for dancing from 9 to 11:45

$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.

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.

11.01 Annual Halloween dance

7:15 Caroline is teaching Halloween dances

9:00 Jason is tentatively djing his most popular Halloween music!

Doors open at 6:45.
Classes start at 7:15. Please arrive 15 minutes early to avoid the rush.

11.08 Gus is teaching tonight

Doors open at 6:45.
Classes start at 7:15. Please arrive 15 minutes early to avoid the rush.

11.15 Romantic Music Night

Richard Powers is our instructor and dj tonight.

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.

Tonight is a special night. Romantic Music night. Please dress up a bit for the dance.

Doors open at 6:45.
Classes start at 7:15. Please arrive 15 minutes early to avoid the rush.

Dj dancing from 9:00 to 11:45

11.22 Symphony Classical Music Night. class in Viennese waltz night

7:15 Viennese waltz night beginner class in Viennese Waltz

8:00 sightly more advanced Viennese Waltz

9:00 John Bauer is our dj for classical symphonic music from the 1800's to the mid twentieth century. going to be fun. Only once a year do we play classical symphonic dance able music.

Doors open at 6:45.
Classes start at 7:15. Please arrive 15 minutes early to avoid the rush.

12.06

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. 
Free Masks. Free bottles of water.

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.

12.13 Holiday Ball

Richard Powers is our instructor and dj tonight.

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.

Doors open at 6:45.
Classes start at 7:15. Please arrive 15 minutes early to avoid the rush.

12.20

Lisa is djing.

Doors open at 6:45.
Classes start at 7:15. Please arrive 15 minutes early to avoid the rush.

12.27 Bob Galloway is both teaching and djing tonight!

classes start at 7:15 until 9:00

Please arrive 15 minutes early to avoid the rush.

Dj dancing byBob starts at 9:00 until 11:45

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