Every Monday and 2-3 Fridays a month (1 in July & August)
7:30-9:30 pm (7:30-10 on Fridays)
At the Lake City Community Center
$5 suggested donation
It's not just another dance. People arrange work schedules and plan vacations to avoid missing Waltz etcetera. There's a spirit of community; there's great music you don't hear anywhere else; there's... well, here's what some of our dancers say about it. We dance to waltz and blues, plus Latin, swing, etcetera. We play about half waltzes, lotsa blues, etcetera.
We have attitude. Dancing should be fun, easygoing, expressive, playful, and creative - not stuffy, condescending, and hung up with a bunch of rules. No formality, no competitions, no recreating the past, no dance organizations, none of that shinola. "Dance etiquette"? Simple human courtesy plus common sense covers it. More about our philosophy.
Waltz is a living dance with us. It's not a vintage artifact or a ballroom syllabus. Waltz is developing, getting reinvented by the creative play of good dancers, being done to new and unexpected music. More about our approach to waltz.
We don't play Regular Dance Music (gag me). We play juicy, gutsy, danceable tunes we honestly like, songs with blood in them. Dancers rave about our music; they tell us nobody else even comes close. "Dance music" is such insipid dreck. We've built an amazing music library, with songs contributed by many dancers, finely tuned by dancers' responses to individual songs.
We teach classes during the hour before the dance. Monday classes are intermediate level; Friday classes are easygoing & slower paced than Monday classes. Friday classes are a good place to start if you're new with us, or new to partner dance. More about our classes. Current & upcoming classes are listed on Current events. Or subscribe to my waltz emails.
It really is more than just a dance. Waltz etcetera breathes real air, has real blood. It's lively; it'll buttonhole you and not let you loose until you have some fun. Come let it work you over; you might just like it.
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Updated May 9, 2008; website lovingly handwritten and maintained by Zachariah