SanDiegoVintageDanceSociety


	Titanic 100 Year Anniversary Weekend, April 6-8, 2012

Historic Dance Week on the Queen Mary, Summer 2011

Our best ever historic/vintage dance week,on the fabulous Queen Mary in Long Beach Harbor is now history! Incomparable vintage dance instruction with Richard Powers, Joan Walton, Susan de Guardiola & Joel Plys; plus evening themed events, live authentic music, tea & much more! Add your name to our email list (above) to get updates on future events.

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SanDiegoVintageDanceSociety

DANCING
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The San Diego Vintage Dance Society is a 501C nonprofit organization dedicated the study and preservation of historic social dances of the 19th and early-mid 20th Centuries. We are available for special dance performances, most recently at the Lyceum Theater. Our group also sponsors vintage dance events complete with authentic live music, encouraging appropriate historic style attire by attendees.

We periodically host special weekend dance festivals which include lessons as well as themed dances. We have also hosted 5 dance weeks, each one unique. Preliminary plans for our next week event, in 2013, include serious consideration of the Grand Hotel in Makinac Island, a unique dance venue really somewhere else in time.

Our next dance weekend is April 6-8, 2012--Titanic 100 Year Anniversary Commemoration Weekend. Click on Titanic label on the left for more information and to register for this limited attendance event.

VIENNESE NIGHTS: A Ball, January 28, 2012
We again experienced the enchantment of a traditional 19th Century Victorian Ball, celebrating the music and dances of the Strauss family and their contemporaries. San Diego's own Grand Pacific Waltz Orchestra,under the direction of Mr Joe Dyke, provided LIVE authentic music for Waltzes, Polkas, Quadrilles, Schottisches and more! Mid-late 19th Century ball wear was much in evidence, with everyone dressed to kill. The fabulous Ms. Joan Walton of San Jose, California was our Dance Mistress for the evening. Ms Walton, an authority on historic vintage dances, also taught a basic class in "survival waltz", as well as the Quadrilles of the evening, in the afternoon prior to the ball.
The Ball and afternoon class both took place in our favorite grand ballroom, the Balboa Park Club, a 12,000 sf 1915 ballroom in famous Balboa Park, here in San Diego. This is always a formal event, and formal wear is required (no jeans, tennis shoes, mini-skirts, sandals, etc. allowed, please. Our next Victorian Ball is scheduled, as always, the last Saturday in January, this time January 28, 2013.

Viennese Ball 2011

Vintage Dance Lessons - FREE!
There are free beginning/intermediate vintage dance lessons on Fridays in Balboa Park at the Casa Del Prado Bldg. Rm 207, from 7:30-9:45 PM. Learn basic dance steps as well as choreographies.

Contact WaltznSuch link(left) for more information.

SDVDW 2009

Richard Powers: Musings & Thoughts on Dance
Going Out Dancing – How to have more fun; how to let your dance partners have more fun!A few (MUST) ground rules:
Some dances travel in line-of-direction, like waltz, polka, one-step and foxtrot. For these dances... 1) The fast lane is on the outside. Please don't block or slow down the traffic. Dance in the fast lane only if you can keep up.... don't be a rock in the rapids! 2) The slow lane or stationary steps are in the center, the eye of the hurricane.
If you're not dancing for a moment, please clear completely off the floor. The dancers will appreciate it.
Floorcraft-- Please take extra care not to bump other couples. i.e. don't step on others, don't rock-step back onto others, don't throw your partner into someone else (!) and don't ram another couple (!!). Always be aware of the others around you. Guys, look where you are going to lead her before you send her there. Don't start a move unless there is room. Protect her from collisions.
In swing, don't do aerials or kicks in crowded conditions. Even if you have lots of space, never attempt to lead an aerial with someone unless you've carefully practiced that move with them.
Don't wear heavy perfumes and colognes to a social dance. Most people don't consider it very sociable, and some have allergies. And similarly...Dance hygiene! Need we say more? (Your partners may find it hard to dance while holding their breath.)
Further(optional)suggestions:
We encourage you to dance with people you don't already know. Most dancers will be happy to dance with someone new.
If you are far more experienced than your partner, dance for your partner's style and comfort. Yes, some challenges and surprises are fun, but being pushed around uncomfortably isn't.
Give your partners all of your attention. Let them know, somehow, that you'd rather be dancing with them than someone else.
Dancing is all about having fun. Criticizing your partner isn't fun. Don't give an impromptu lesson unless asked.
If there is live music, don't treat the musicians like canned music. Let them know that you appreciate their presence and their talent.
Relax. Don't get flustered, keep moving, laugh at what happened if appropriate but keep dancing. Truly exceptional dancers will almost always make a mistake look like something they planned if at all possible. There are no mistakes in dancing, only new moves.
Dance for your partner. But also dance with your partner — have fun yourself and let your partner know that you're having fun with them.
Happiness itself is the way to dance and to live. It isn't something you try to get from dancing or living. Happiness is something that you bring to dancing, and to life.

— Richard Powers

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