The Wedding Dances Collection

(DAN 27)

Would you like to know how to do the basic dances seen at weddings, with style and flair? Are you ever in a position to help someone else plan their post-wedding party? Are you getting married yourself and would like to learn an easy but impressive newlywed dance? Whether you’re a wedding-goer, potential advisor, soon-to-be-newlywed, or someone who thinks “some day I’ll need to know these dances,” you’ll enjoy this series of five dance classes. Dances covered will include the essential box-step waltz variations, newer cross-step waltz and cross-step foxtrot, basic swing, and some new twists on the basic slow dancing everyone does at weddings. The instructors will also offer a few quick wedding dance games to show what else can be done to make a wedding party successful. No dance experience is required, just a funloving attitude and lots of enthusiasm. If you already dance, bring a friend who doesn’t. This is a great way to introduce someone to social dancing.

Richard Powers, Lecturer in Dance

Richard Powers has been studying contemporary and historic social dances for more than thirty years and currently teaches in Stanford Drama’s Dance Division. He was awarded the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contributions to Undergraduate Education and was also selected by the centennial issue of Stanford Magazine as one of the university’s most notable graduates of its first century.

Angela Amarillas, Dance Instructor

Angela Amarillas teaches and performs historical and vernacular social dance with Richard Powers around the US and throughout Europe. She received a BA in human biology and an MA in education from Stanford, and also completed the school’s first minor in dance.