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| Mostly Waltz! Welcome to Toronto's
Mostly Waltz page mostlywaltz.ca
Come to the monthly Friday Night Mostly Waltz Dance
Parties
featuring beginner dance lessons
and sometimes an excellent live band!
Come to our Monday night waltz classes
and Saturday and Sunday day-time workshops!
There is no need to
bring your own dance partners to the classes, workshops or dances. Subway
and parking are close by. All events are held
on excellent large wooden dance floors in charming dance halls on the Bloor
subway line. See some videos
of waltz at the bottom of this page.
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Mostly Waltz Events in Toronto:
 | Monthly Waltz Dance Party Friday Night or Sunday
Night! One
Friday or Sunday night a month, Franco
Dance Studio, featuring DJ'd music
and sometimes featuring an excellent live band! And with beginner
classes before the Dance! 6pm to 10:30pm on a Sunday. 7pm to 11:30pm on
a Friday. |
| Saturday Afternoon Waltz Workshops at Dovercourt
House. Sunday Afternoon Waltz Workshops at the Franco
Dance Studio |
| Monday Night Waltz Classes. Trinity St. Paul's Center,
427 Bloor Street West, Toronto, 8pm. |
Schedule:
| Date |
Lesson/Workshop |
Dance & Band |
Location |
Price |
Saturday April 21
2pm to 5pm |
Viennese Waltz Beginner Workshop!
Teachers: Bonnie & Simon
Viennese Waltz is one of the best, most fun, and most romantic partner
dances ever. We teach traditional Viennese Waltz. The focus of this
workshop is right/clockwise turning Viennese Waltz as done from the mid
19th century onwards. |
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Dovercourt
House, 805 Dovercourt Road, Toronto. Subway and parking close by. |
$30, full-time students $25.
Just $10 if you are in the Viennese Waltz course, or have done our
course or workshop before. |
Sunday April 22
The April Waltz Dance 6pm to 10:30pm |
Beginner classes:
One Step 6pm to 6:50pm, Traditional Waltz 7pm
to 7:50pm.
Teachers: Bonnie & Simon
(One Step is a fun easy-to-learn partner dance. It is the main
dance of the huge early 20th century Ragtime Dance Craze and was very
popular in different forms and under different names from the 1920s to
the 1940s.) |
The April Waltz Dance
Party!
8pm to 10:30pm
Come and do some of the best partner dances ever to some of the best
music of the 21st, 20th and 19th centuries.
DJs include Simon & Bonnie |
Franco Dance Studio,
1222A Bloor Street West (upstairs), Toronto. At Brock Avenue,
three blocks west of Dufferin and Dufferin subway, three blocks east of
Lansdowne and Lansdowne subway. |
Dance $7, $10 with one class,
$15 with both. Full-time students $5/$8/$10. |
Monday April 30
8pm to 9pm |
Viennese Waltz Intermediate Class!
8pm to 9pm.
Teachers: Bonnie & Simon
(Prerequirement: You can do right turning Viennese Waltz of
some kind or have taken our beginner Viennese Waltz workshop/course) |
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Trinity St.
Paul's, Gym, 427 Bloor Street West, Toronto. (Two blocks west
of Spadina, across the street from the west exit of the Spadina subway
stop) |
$10, full-time students $8 |
Sunday May 6
2pm to 5pm |
Viennese Waltz Left Turning Workshop!
Teachers: Simon & Bonnie
2pm to 5pm
No prior experience required. |
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Franco Dance Studio,
1222A Bloor Street West (upstairs), Toronto. At Brock Avenue,
three blocks west of Dufferin and Dufferin subway. |
$30, $25 for full-time
students |
Mondays in May
starting Monday May 7
8pm to 9pm |
Cross-step Waltz Beginner Course!
Mondays May 7, 14, 28, 8pm to 9pm.
(No class May 21 as it is Victoria Day.)
Cross-step Waltz
is a new way of waltzing and the favourite waltz style of many
people. Done to slower tempos than Viennese Waltz. |
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Trinity St.
Paul's, Gym, 427 Bloor Street West, Toronto. |
$30, $25 for full-time
students |
Sunday May 20
The May Waltz Dance 6pm to 10:30pm |
Beginner classes:
Cross-step Waltz 6pm to 6:50pm, Traditional Waltz 7pm
to 7:50pm.
Teachers: Bonnie & Simon
(Cross-step Waltz is a new way of doing Waltz
and is the favourite Waltz style of many people across the U.S. It
is done to slower tempos than Viennese.) |
The May Waltz Dance
Party!
8pm to 10:30pm
Do some of the best partner dances ever to some of the best
music of the 21st, 20th and 19th centuries.
DJs include Simon & Bonnie |
Franco Dance Studio,
1222A Bloor Street West (upstairs), Toronto. At Brock Avenue,
three blocks west of Dufferin and Dufferin subway, three blocks east of
Lansdowne and Lansdowne subway. |
Dance $7, $10 with one class,
$15 with both. Full-time students $5/$8/$10. |
| Saturday June 2 |
Viennese Waltz Beginner Workshop!
Teachers: Bonnie & Simon
No prior experience needed
2pm to 5pm |
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Dovercourt
House, 805 Dovercourt Road, Toronto. Subway and parking close by. |
$30, full-time studetns $25 |
Recent comment about
Mostly Waltz in Toronto:
"Tonight's Waltz lesson and dance - incredible!!! Thank you very much
for a wonderful introduction to waltz tonight. I greatly appreciated
the positive, patient and lovely atmosphere created by Simon and Bonnie
tonight. It was an unexpectedly magical evening that transported me
back in time." Grace from Toronto, December 2011
Waltz Dance
Parties with beginner dance classes before the Dance are held
one Friday or Sunday Night each month at the Franco Dance Studio!
Special Workshops on some Saturday afternoons at Dovercourt
House and on some Sunday afternoons at Franco Dance Studio! Dates and details in the calendar above.
Monday Night classes at Trinity St. Paul's, 427 Bloor
Street West, 8pm to 9pm. |
We teach traditional Viennese
Waltz, Rotary Waltz, Cross-step Waltz, Charleston, Peabody, One Step,
Ragtime Era dancing, Polka, Blues
Dance,
Cakewalk, Schottische and other partner dances. We also give private lessons
for wedding dances. For special events
we provide
dance performances and demos, dance classes and workshops,
dance animators and dance hosts. Let us help make your
charity ball or other special event extra special, especially if it has a
Waltz, Victorian Era, Ragtime Era, Roaring 20s, Swing Era, 1950s, Polka,
Polkamania, or Vienna theme. We are also happy to refer you to
excellent live bands suited for special events involving dance.
If you are interested in
lessons or other things, or have any questions, please email Mostly Waltz at
mostlyw@gmail.co
To get on our email list simply email
mostlyw@gmail.com and ask to be on
our elist. Special deal for returning
students: If you repeat a beginner course or workshop with us which you have already
done, it is only $10 for the entire course or workshop. Taking it again is a
good refresher and good practice. |
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Some recommended
out
of town Waltz Weekends and Waltz Weeks (weekends and weeks
featuring waltz and related dances)
Mostly Waltz Groups in the U.S. and Canada
Some
of the Waltz Music on youtube we love:
Videos:
| The first Mostly Waltz Dance in Toronto was on May 3,
2008, it was fun and had a very good vibe - here is a 90 second video from
that Dance taken by Tony Hornick:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=axGm_kKD_68
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Fred
Astaire & Ginger Rogers waltzing |
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Waltz
performance in High School Musical 3 |
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Vienna Teng live at Stanford, California Waltz Dance |
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Danse
Libre waltz performance at weekly dance in Palo Alto,
California |
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Waltzing in Gone With the Wind
(at about 26 seconds into the video)
Atlanta Bazaar in Gone With the Wind |
| Stanford University, California,
Viennese Ball Opening Committee Waltz 2009 (a waltz performance to
open/commence the Ball) |
| Waltz at
Jammix Dance, Stanford University, California |
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Ragtime Waltz choreography at a PEERS Dance (California) |
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Waltz
Ball in Moscow (Gone With the Wind) |
| Richard & Angela demonstrate
Cross
step waltz variations |
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Bluesy Waltz class demo
Campbell Miller & Chris Meyer -
longer clip of same |
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Waltz Fusion class demo
Campbell Miller & Chris Meyer |
| Waltz swingout with
Ari &
Julie |
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Cross-step Waltz mixer at Palo Alto weekly waltz dance |
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Viennese Waltz |
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Polka at Gaskels Dance, Oakland, California |
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Ball opening in Vienna (excerpts) |
| Viennese Waltz choreography,
Montreal |
Viennese Waltz - the core of Viennese Waltz is
rotating with your partner while traveling around the room. This can have a
hypnotic or dreamlike quality. Viennese Waltz has been popular for over 150
years and has roots going back to the Middle Ages. We teach traditional
Viennese Waltz.
"Cross-Step Waltz is
the newest waltz on the dance floor, spreading quickly because it's easy to
learn yet endlessly innovative, satisfying for both beginners and the most
experienced dancers. It travels and rotates like traditional waltz but the
addition of the cross-step opens up a wide range of playful yet gracefully
flowing variations." Richard Powers
Waltz Eclectic page with waltz videos
Richard Powers Cross-step Waltz page
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