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Social Dance Workshops

taught by Nick & Melissa Enge

Past Workshops

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

Fire Ant Frolic (October 2018, Austin, TX)

• Waltz Workshop
• Schottische Workshop

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

• Intro to Swing Dancing

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

© 2014-2025 Nick Enge

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For more dance descriptions, see our three books on dancing:
The Book of Mixers: 100 Easy-Teach Dances for Getting Acquainted (2022) by Richard Powers and Nick & Melissa Enge,
Cross-Step Waltz: A Dancer's Guide (2019) by Richard Powers and Nick & Melissa Enge, and
Waltzing: A Manual for Dancing and Living (2013) by Richard Powers and Nick Enge.

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