Spring Mini-Series
3 Wednesday Evenings
6:30p - 8:30p
April 9th - April 23rd
Arrillaga Family Recreation Center,
700 Alma St, Menlo Park, CA
No previous dance experience is required
Just show up. Partners typically rotate
Make friends from different backgrounds
Dress comfortably. Dance shoes are recommended
Cross Step Waltz, rooted in the elegant French Valse Boston of the 1920s, blends the grace of traditional waltz with foxtrot-inspired cross-steps. Revived in 1995, it now enchants dancers worldwide with its flowing style and endless variations.
A timeless state of energized focus, involvement, and enjoyment. Colloquially known as being in the zone
Cross Step Waltz
Experience the grace of Cross Step Waltz in this three-week course, featuring smooth rotations, effortless travel, and creative variations. Dance to beautiful, slower waltz music and join a vibrant, elegant community! Register solo or with a partner—no prior waltz or social dance experience needed. Partners rotate frequently.
3 Wednesday evenings, 6:30 pm - 7:20 pm
April 9th - April 23rd
Arrillaga Family Recreation Center
700 Alma St, Menlo Park, CA
Acquire the essentials of lead and follow roles, refine posture, Waltz position, connection, balance, line-of-dance, navigation, and graceful rotation. Basics of Waltz timing and music. And, we'll cover basic pattern of Cross Step Waltz that flows into a Turning Basic.
Flow Concept: Amor Fati
Review and refine the turning basic and see how small changes introduce new variations. Learn the Waterfall a variation of the Turning Basic and put everything together.
Flow Concept: Stages in Learning
Enhance your growing Waltz skills with a new relaxed move, Lead Under, while introducing various forms of Waltz turns!
Flow Concept: Body-Mind
Cross Step Waltz w/ Tango Infusion
Take your Cross Step Waltz to the next level in this three-week course, featuring fun challenges like grapevines and pivots, infused with Ochos & Castigada from Tango. Perfect for those who’ve completed Waltz Foundations I or have equivalent experience. Foundations I & II can be taken simultaneously for a seamless learning experience!y.
3 Wednesday evenings, 7:30 pm - 8:20 pm
April 9th - April 23rd
Arrillaga Family Recreation Center
700 Alma St, Menlo Park, CA
Like a magician’s sleight of hand, hand switches in waltz create seamless transitions, adding enchantment to your dance
Flow Concept: Connection
Grapevines in waltz are like a joyful game of "follow the leader," where your feet weave side to side, sipping elegance with every step! Learn to end a grapevine w/ a Castigada from tango!
Flow Concept: Body Mind
Like a Silicon Valley startup, learn to pivot! End the series with Ochos from Tango. Tango figures in waltz feel like heaven and earth meeting—combining the relaxed elegance of waltz with the fiery passion of tango!
Flow concept: Integration
Limited spots!
Redirects to City of Menlo Park Website.
$74/person for non-residents.
Redirects to City of Menlo Park Website.
$74/person for non-residents.
Karn Verma
Karn, founder of Feeling Flow, has taught at Stanford's Bechtel International Center, Jikoji Zen Center, Friday Night Waltz, and the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. He led the first MIT-CNC and Stanford Alumni workshops and hosts community classes and world-class artists at Tea & Tango. Teaching social dance since 2017, Karn blends engineering and meditation into his teaching philosophy, making dance easy and fun. You can read more about him here www.feelingflow.org/founder
Rachel Grant
Hearing how much her friends enjoyed social dancing, Rachel attended a free waltz class in 2018 ahead of a big event called the Viennese Ball. She fell in love with dance, went on to take more classes, and soon found herself performing at the same Ball where she took her first steps. Talk to Rachel for encouragement to dance, biology fun facts, poetry snippets, and strength training tips. Better yet, ask her to dance!
Viennese Ball: https://tinyurl.com/2xuxz82x
The Sequoia Room at the Arrillaga Family Recreation Center
Doors open 15 minutes before class.
Google MapsSome pictures of the campus and dance space
or email: teacher@feelingflow.org
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