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taught by Nick & Melissa Enge

Upcoming Workshops

Berea Waltz and More Weekend (March 13-15, 2026, Berea, KY)

Hosted by Lexington Vintage Dance

Teachers: Nick & Melissa Enge

Classes:

Waltz In, Waltz Out: Short and Sweet Figures in Rotary Waltz
Glide and Stroll: The Party Dances of 1930s London
Swing It Slow: Laminu & Slow Bal
Waltz in Glass Slippers: Cinderella Waltzing from 1899 to Present
Beyond the Swing Move: Expanding Your East Coast Swing Vocabulary
From Two Step to Two Step: Tracing the Lineage of Texas Two Step
Waltz In and Steal the Show: Social Rotary Waltz Moves from Stage and Screen
Beyond the Swingout: Expanding Your Lindy Hop Vocabulary
Waltz in a Square: The Fall Waltz Quadrille
Waltz into the Sunset: Ending a Rotary Waltz with Flair

Anchorage Dance Weekend (May 15-17, 2026, Anchorage, AK)

Hosted by the Anchorage Social Dance Club

Teachers: Nick & Melissa Enge

Classes:

The 45th Anniversary Cincinnati Vintage Dance Week (June 13-19, 2027, Cincinnati, OH)

Hosted by the Flying Cloud Academy of Vintage Dance

Teachers: Nick & Melissa Enge, Richard Powers, & more!

Classes:

Past Workshops

Teachers are Nick & Melissa Enge unless otherwise noted.

Tejas Club (December 2025, Austin, TX)

Blues and Swing

Collaborative Cross-Step Waltz Weekend II (October 2025, Seattle, WA)

The Devil (or Heaven) Is in the Details
Beautiful Moves That Highlight the Essence of Cross-Step Waltz
Lunch Talk: Concepts for Creating Beautiful Partnering
Ways to Hit Musical Moments
Short Bites: The Love Languages of Dance
Nick & Melissa's Favorites from the Weekend

National Dance Society Conference (June 2025, Virtual)

Do All the Dances: A Crash Course in Social Dancing

Tejas Club (December 2024, Austin, TX)

Blues and Swing

Texas Camp (November 2024, Bruceville, TX)

Fox Trot
Merengue & Fusion
Sweetheart Waltz
Texas Two-Step
Culture Session: How a Step Becomes a Dance: Footwork, Style, and Musicality

Collaborative Cross-Step Waltz Weekend (September 2024, Seattle, WA)

Building Moves from Cross-Step Waltz Basics
Adapting Moves from Other Dances into Cross-Step Waltz
Lunch Talk: How We Think about Creating New Moves in Cross-Step Waltz
Nick & Melissa's Recent Favorites in Cross-Step Waltz
Short Bites: Dips in Cross-Step Waltz
Nick & Melissa's Favorites from the Weekend

New Mexico Camp (July 2024, Socorro, NM)

Mix It Up: Favorite Mixers from The Book of Mixers (and Beyond)
Glide and Stroll: The Party Dances of 1930s London
Culture Corner: The Love Languages of Dance
Line Dancing in 2024
Bachata Mezcla: A Freestyle Bachata Mixer
Kids' Camp: Chaos Contra
Balfolk: Scottish & Mazurka

National Dance Society Conference (June 2024, Columbia, SC)

Fun with Salsa Shines

The Flying Cloud Academy of Vintage Dance's Balboa and More Dance Weekend (November 2022, Cincinnati, OH)

Bal 1: What's Up?
Fox Trot 1: Zoomin'
Bal 2: Get Down
Fox Trot 2: Fundamentals
Bal 3: Feel the Music
Tango Made Easy
Waltz 1: Sweetheart Waltz
Bal 4: Mess Around
Waltz 2: Cross-Step Waltz

Broadening Dance Education: A National Dance Society Virtual Professional Development Day (October 2022, Virtual)

All about Angles 2.0: Teaching Dance to a Hybrid Audience

National Dance Society Conference (July 2022, San Antonio, TX)

The Transformative Power of Social Dancing

The Flying Cloud Academy of Vintage Dance's 40th Annual Vintage Dance Week (June 2022, Cincinnati, OH)

Balboa I: What's Up?
Shall We Play a Game?: The Forgotten Joy of the German Cotillion
Balboa II: Get Down
Take It Easy: A Stroll through 1920s Blues
Balboa III: Mess Around
Finding the Soul of Golden Age Tango
Five-Step Waltz from F-to-Z
Cheek to Cheek: The Foxtrot of Fred and Ginger
As Time Goes By: Balfolk Interpretations of 19th Century Waltzes
Trek and Stroll: The Party Dances of London '38 and '39

Historical Dance at Play (August 2021, Marin, CA)

Stopping Time: The Scandal of Early Tango

Cross-Step Waltz Festival (August 2021, St. Petersburg, Russia)

Cross-Step Waltz Moves Invented at UT Austin
(provided material for local teachers to present on our behalf)

National Dance Society Conference (June 2021, Virtual)

All about Angles: Effective Methods for Teaching Dance Partnering Online

Austin Saengerrunde (February 2019, Austin, TX)

Tanzkurs: Waltz
Tanzkurs: Polka
Tanzkurs: Schottische

Friday Night Waltz (January 2019, Palo Alto, CA)

Teachers: Nick Enge & Brenée Carvell

Bachata
Texas Shuffle and Rhythm Two Step

Fire Ant Frolic (October 2018, Austin, TX)

Waltz Workshop
Schottische Workshop

Dancing 'Til Dusk (July 2018, Seattle, WA)

Intro to Swing Dancing

Friday Night Waltz (August 2017, Palo Alto, CA)

Country Two Step
New Easy-Going Rotary Waltz Variations

Contra Waltz at Friday Night Waltz (April 2017, Palo Alto, CA)

Teachers: Nick Enge & Lauren Gibson

Polka

Friday Night Waltz (March 2017, Palo Alto, CA)

An Rince Mór Mixer
The New Kerry Polka Sets

Friday Night Waltz (March 2017, Palo Alto, CA)

Basic Waltz and Classic Viennese Ball Variations
New Viennese Ball Variations from 2017

Friday Night Waltz (September 2016, Palo Alto, CA)

Introduction to Rotary Waltz
The Common Waltz, Part 4

Friday Night Waltz (August 2016, Palo Alto, CA)

Introduction to Rotary Waltz
The Common Waltz, Part 3

Friday Night Waltz (August 2016, Palo Alto, CA)

Introduction to Rotary Waltz
The Common Waltz, Part 2

Friday Night Waltz (August 2016, Palo Alto, CA)

Introduction to Rotary Waltz
The Common Waltz, Part 1

Friday Night Waltz (February 2016, Palo Alto, CA)

Tango Essentials
Tango Endings

Friday Night Waltz (September 2015, Palo Alto, CA)

1920s Lindy Hop
1920s Charleston

Friday Night Waltz (September 2015, Palo Alto, CA)

Tag Team Nightclub Two-Step Variations with Richard Powers & Mirage Greene
Tag Team Cross-Step Waltz Variations with Richard Powers & Mirage Greene

Friday Night Waltz (July 2015, Palo Alto, CA)

Shadow Figures in Cross-Step Waltz
Cradle Figures in Cross-Step Waltz

Friday Night Waltz (May 2015, Palo Alto, CA)

Rotary Waltz
The Cinderella Variations

Friday Night Waltz (April 2015, Palo Alto, CA)

Tag Team Swing Variations with Richard Powers & Mirage Greene
Tag Team Waltz Variations with Richard Powers & Mirage Greene

Friday Night Waltz (April 2015, Palo Alto, CA)

New Variations in Salsa
West Coast Swing in 2015

Friday Night Waltz (April 2015, Palo Alto, CA)

The 12 Days of Cross-Step Waltz, Part I
The 12 Days of Cross-Step Waltz, Part II

Friday Night Waltz (November 2014, Palo Alto, CA)

Black(light) Friday: New Figures in Nightclub Two Step
Black(light) Friday: New Figures in Four Count Swing

Friday Night Waltz (October 2014, Palo Alto, CA)

Sweetheart Variations in Salsa
Rumba

Friday Night Waltz (October 2014, Palo Alto, CA)

Do ALL the Dances, Part I: Swing and Latin
Do ALL the Dances, Part II: Waltz

Friday Night Waltz (September 2014, Palo Alto, CA)

More Easy West Coast Swing
Salsa Doesn't Have to Be Hard

Friday Night Waltz (September 2014, Palo Alto, CA)

West Coast Swing Doesn't Have to Be Hard, Part I
West Coast Swing Doesn't Have to Be Hard, Part II

Friday Night Waltz (August 2014, Palo Alto, CA)

Bachata
Mazurka Clandestina, Part III

Friday Night Waltz (June 2014, Palo Alto, CA)

Even More Ways to Waltz
Waltzing in 4/4 Time

Friday Night Waltz (May 2014, Palo Alto, CA)

New Innovations in Cross-Step Waltz
New Innovations in Rotary Waltz

Friday Night Waltz (May 2014, Palo Alto, CA)

Royal Boston Waltz Mixer
Spanish Waltz Mixer

Friday Night Waltz (April 2014, Palo Alto, CA)

Latin Waltz
Social Tango

Austin Waltz Weekend (March 2014, Austin, TX)

Favorite Innovations in Cross-Step Waltz (Part 1)
New Rotary Waltz Variations from the Stanford Viennese Ball
Insights from Waltzing: A Manual for Dancing and Living
Favorite Innovations in Cross-Step Waltz (Part 2)
The Flying Waltz, a.k.a. Redowa
Kerry Polka Sets
How to Innovate in Cross-Step Waltz
Schottische Quadrilles

Friday Night Waltz (March 2014, Palo Alto, CA)

Inside Turns in Cross-Step Waltz
Redowa

Friday Night Waltz (March 2014, Palo Alto, CA)

Introductory Rotary Waltz
Kerry Polka Sets

Friday Night Waltz (February 2014, Palo Alto, CA)

New Cross-Step Waltz Variations
New Rotary Waltz Variations