Dances Taught

Contemporary Couple Dances

  • Turning Waltz

  • Cross-Step Waltz

  • Blues Waltz

  • Waltz Swing

  • Hambo

  • Fox Trot

  • Tango

  • Polka

  • Schottische

  • Zweifacher

Contemporary Group Dances

  • English Country Dances

  • Appalachian Big Set and Set Running

  • Virginia Reel and other community set dances

  • Circle Dances and Mixers

  • Shim Sham, Charleston Madison, Midnight Waltz and other line dances

Renaissance & Baroque Period (1575-1750)

  • Basse Dance

  • Branles

  • Galliarde

  • Minuet

  • BourrĂ©e

  • Country Dances

  • Contradances

Regency Period (1790-1820)

  • Country Dances

  • Scottish Reel

  • Early Mazurka

  • French Quadrille

  • Royal Scottish Quadrille

  • Sir Roger de Coverley

Romantic/Civil War Era (1830-1875)

  • Waltz and Redowa

  • Polka

  • Galop

  • Schottische

  • Mazurka

  • Five-Step Waltz

  • Can Can, Lancers, and other Quadrilles

Late Victorian/Turn of Century (1880-1910)

  • Two Step

  • Cake Walk

  • Veleta Waltz, Boston Two-Step and other English sequence dances

  • Boston/Viennese Waltz

Ragtime Era (1910s)

  • One Step

  • Tango

  • Maxixe

  • Fox Trot

  • Hesitation Waltz

  • Half & Half

Jazz Age (1920s)

  • Blues

  • Fox Trot

  • Charleston

  • Toddle

  • Lindy

  • Samba

  • Shag