Waltz Toronto – Waltz workshops, classes and dances!

Saturday, September 20, 2025

2:00pm – 6:10pm

Saturday Afternoon Waltz & Beginner Classes

DJ Simon Threlkeld

Vaccination proof NOT required. Masks optional.

PREREQUISITE

No experience or partner required. Absolute beginners are welcome.

TEACHERS

VENUE

Upper Hall

Enter the Upper Hall from Hampton Avenue, just south of Danforth.

Use Bloor St. entrance towards west side of building

St. Barnabas on The Danforth Anglican Church
175 Hampton Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 2Z3

SCHEDULE

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Polka Beginner Lesson

2:00pm – 2:15pm

Cross-step Waltz Beginner Lesson

2:15pm – 2:50pm

Viennese Waltz Beginner Lesson

2:50pm – 4:10pm

Dance Party

4:15pm – 6:05pm

DETAILS

Take the beginner lessons, learn a lot, stay for the dance. Have a very fun afternoon.
Learn traditional Viennese Waltz. It is easy-to-learn, popular since the early 19th century, is done at fast, medium and slower tempos, and is perhaps the most romantic partner dance of all, done to great music of the 21st, 20th and 19th centuries. This class has a different theme each time.

Learn Cross-step Waltz, the favourite Waltz style of many people, usually done to slower tempos. A modern style of Waltz, with roots in the early 20th century.

The lessons begin with a brief introduction to Polka. An exuberant, fun dance, super popular in the 19th century, and done around the world today.

After Saturday Afternoon Waltz comes Saturday Night Swing in the same dance hall. Stay for that if you like.

PRICE

Prices are per person. HST INCLUDED.

Mother’s Day Special: Any Mom and their family can come to the lessons and dance for the price of two admissions to the lessons and dance!

$25

Regular Admission

$20

Full-Time Students with ID

$10

Dance only after 4:15pm cash only

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Saturday, October 18, 2025

6:15pm – 10:30pm

Saturday Night Waltz & Beginner Classes

DJ Simon Threlkeld

Vaccination proof NOT required. Masks optional.

PREREQUISITE

No prior experience needed, absolute beginners are welcome. There is no need to bring your own dance partners.

TEACHERS

TBA

VENUE

Upper Hall

Enter the Upper Hall from Hampton Avenue, just south of Danforth.

Use Bloor St. entrance towards west side of building

St. Barnabas on The Danforth Anglican Church
175 Hampton Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 2Z3

SCHEDULE

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Cross-step Waltz Beginner Lesson

6:15pm – 7:00pm

Viennese Waltz Beginner Lesson

7:00pm – 8:20pm

Dance Party

8:30pm – 10:30pm

DETAILS

Take the beginner lessons, learn a lot, have fun, stay for the dance social!
Learn traditional Viennese Waltz, the favourite social dance of many people, popular since the early 19th century, fun, improvisational, easy-to-learn. Good for fast, middling and slower tempos, and perhaps the most romantic partner dance of all.

Learn Cross-step Waltz, the favourite Waltz style of many people. Easy-to-learn, fun, usually done to slower tempos.

PRICE

Prices are per person. HST INCLUDED.

Mother’s Day Special: Any Mom and their family can come to the lessons and dance for the price of two admissions to the lessons and dance!

$25

Regular Admission

$20

Full-Time Students with ID

$10

Dance only after 4:15pm cash only

*Swing Toronto partners with Stripe for payment processing.

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Sunday, October 26, 2025

6:00pm – 8:45pm

Viennese Waltz (Right-turning) Beginner

Vaccination proof NOT required. Masks optional.

PREREQUISITE

No prior experience is needed, absolute beginners are welcome. There is no need to bring your own dance partners. Just $20 if you took this workshop with us before in the same role ($15 for F/T students).

TEACHERS

DETAILS

Learn the Right Turning basic of traditional Viennese Waltz (rotating to your right as you travel with a partner)! Plus Promenade, Follower-backing, Follower turns, and transitions between these and the the Right Turning Basic.
The Right Turning Basic, and the Left Turning Basic, are at the center of Viennese Waltz. They can be done in alternation in the same song. Learn both (we have a Left Turning Viennese Waltz workshop on Sunday September 14th).

WHY LEARN TRADITIONAL VIENNESE WALTZ?
It is fun, easy-to-learn, improvisational and playful, and is perhaps the most romantic partner dance of all. Popular since the early 19th century, it is done all around the world, at fast, medium and slower tempos, to great music of the 21st, 20th and 19th centuries. It is the favourite dance of many people, and there is no partner dance more classic, fun, graceful and influential.

Towards the end of the workshop, you will be introduced to the option of a more linear style of Right Turning Viennese Waltz, which you can add to your repertoire.

At our monthly Saturday Waltz Dance we always have a Viennese Waltz beginner lesson, and teach all kinds of things other than the turning basics, to expand, diversify and round out your Viennese Waltzing.

RETURNING STUDENTS DISCOUNT
We strongly encourage everyone to take each of our Waltz workshops more than once, to learn more thoroughly and fully, to refresh, and for fun. It is just $20 when you do (F/T students $15).

VENUE

Studio

Use Bloor St. entrance towards west side of building.

Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts, 427 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1X7

SCHEDULE

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Workshop

6:00pm – 8:45pm

PRICE

Prices are per person. HST included.

Regular Admission

$45

Full-Time Students with ID

$30

$20

Took this wkshp before in same role

$15

Took before, F/T student

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Saturday, November 1, 2025

3:00pm – 5:45pm

Cross-Step Waltz Beginner

Vaccination proof NOT required. Masks optional.

PREREQUISITE

No prior experience is needed. Absolute beginners are welcome. There is no need to bring your own dance partners. Just $20 if you took this workshop with us before in the same role ($15 for F/T students).

TEACHERS

DETAILS

Learn Cross-step Waltz, the favourite Waltz style of many people, usually done to slower tempos than Viennese Waltz.
There is an enthusiastic ongoing revival and evolution of Cross-step Waltz going on around the world. It is a flowing, fun, graceful dance, with many possibilities and variations.

You will learn the turning basic of Cross-step Waltz, which is the center of the dance, and some variations of it. Plus quite a bit more, including Cross-step Waltz Promenade variations, and Lead Goes, Follow Goes variations.

We strongly encourage everyone to take this workshop more than once, to learn better, for practice and for fun. When you take it the second time in the same role it is just $20 ($15 for full-time students).

Cross-step Waltz and traditional Viennese Waltz are our two favourite forms of Waltz, and are the most danced Waltz styles at our monthly Waltz dances.

VENUE

Upper Hall

Enter the Upper Hall from Hampton Avenue, just south of Danforth.

St. Barnabas on The Danforth Anglican Church, 175 Hampton Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 2Z3

SCHEDULE

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Workshop

3:00pm – 5:30pm

PRICE

Prices are per person. HST included.

Regular Admission

$45

Full-Time Students with ID

$30

$20

Took this wkshp before in same role

$15

Took before, F/T student

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Sunday, November 9, 2025

2:00pm – 6:00pm

Sunday Afternoon Waltz & Beginner Classes

DJ Simon Threlkeld

Vaccination proof NOT required. Masks optional.

PREREQUISITE

No prior experience needed, absolute beginners are welcome. There is no need to bring your own dance partners.

TEACHERS

TBA

VENUE

Upper Hall

Enter the Upper Hall from Hampton Avenue, just south of Danforth.

Use Bloor St. entrance towards west side of building

St. Barnabas on The Danforth Anglican Church
175 Hampton Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 2Z3

SCHEDULE

Sunday, November 9, 2025

Cross-step Waltz Beginner Lesson

2:00pm – 2:40pm

Viennese Waltz Beginner Lesson

2:40pm – 4:00pm

Dance Party

4:15pm – 6:00pm

DETAILS

Learn Cross-step Waltz, the favourite Waltz style of many people. Easy-to-learn, fun, usually done to slower tempos.

The lessons cover different things each time. In combination with our workshops they are designed to teach you a full and broad repertoire of traditional Viennese Waltz and Cross-step Waltz, with good frame, connection, technique and flow.

PRICE

Prices are per person. HST INCLUDED.

Mother’s Day Special: Any Mom and their family can come to the lessons and dance for the price of two admissions to the lessons and dance!

$25

Regular Admission

$20

Full-Time Students with ID

$10

Dance only after 4:15pm cash only

*Swing Toronto partners with Stripe for payment processing.

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Sunday, November 23, 2025

6:00pm – 8:45pm

Cross-step Waltz Intermediate – Pivots & More

Vaccination proof NOT required. Masks optional.

PREREQUISITE

You have taken our Cross-step Waltz beginner workshop at least once, or can do the Turning Basic of Cross-step Waltz.
If you have taken intermediate Cross-step Waltz workshops with us before, in both Pivots and Waterfalls, it is just $20 for you to take this workshop in the same role ($15 for F/T students).

TEACHERS

DETAILS

Cross-step Waltz Intermediate Workshop – Pivots & Waterfalls
Learn Cross-step Waltz Pivot variations, Lead’s Waterfalls, and more.

Workshop begins with a brief review of the Cross-step Waltz Turning Basic.

We may do the Cross-step Waltz Mixer at the end, if time allows.

VENUE

Studio

Use Bloor St. entrance towards west side of building.

Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts, 427 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1X7

SCHEDULE

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Workshop

6:00pm – 8:45pm

PRICE

Prices are per person. HST included.

Regular Admission

$45

Full-Time Students with ID

$30

$20

Took this wkshp before in same role

$15

Took before, F/T student

*Swing Toronto partners with Stripe for payment processing.

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Our Instructors

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Simon

Waltz, Polka, 1920’s Dances, Ragtime Dances, 19th Century Dances, Lindy Hop

Simon teaches and loves traditional Viennese Waltz, Cross-Step Waltz, Polka, 1920s dances, Ragtime dances, 19th century dances and Lindy Hop. He also teaches and loves lifts, drops, dips, floorials and Air Steps, and thinks this is some of the best and most fun stuff in dance.

Simon has been teaching dance for over 20 years, has taught many dance workshops and classes, has presented many Waltz dances and various Waltz and Vintage Dance workshop weekends, and has attended various Waltz and Vintage Dance workshop weekends and weeks in the USA. His favourite teacher for Waltz is Richard Powers, the renowned Stanford University historian and teacher of social dance.

Simon is the coordinator of Waltz Toronto and of Swing Toronto.

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Cheryl

Waltz, 1920’s Dances, Ragtime Dances, Lindy Hop

Cheryl Henry started dancing Lindy Hop in March 2000. After learning this dance was created by African-Americans, she has been relentless in her research and teaching of early Afrocentric dance styles. She has had the honour to meet and study with international Lindy Hop, Tap, Jazz, and music Masters Frankie Manning, Norma Miller, Chester Whitmore, Chazz Young, Skip Cunningham, Jeni LeGon, Dawn Hampton, Sugar Sullivan and Barbara Billups, as well as, their students Paulette Brockington, Ron Parker, Steven Mitchell, and many others. Cheryl’s keen interest in 19th and early 20th century vernacular dances also led her to workshops with Richard Powers and Angela Amarillas which included Waltz, and with Chad Fasca and Midori Asakura to learn Peabody. Cheryl has choreographed for and performed on local, provincial and international stages. She is eager to continue learning, teaching and collaborating on the majestic dances and music history of the African Diaspora.

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Naum

Waltz, Polka, 1920s Dances

Naum has been dancing since 1998, taught dance for three years in the 2000s, and started teaching again in late 2021. Dance is his main passion and hobby. He takes every opportunity to dance and take lessons, and likes sharing this passion and his dance skills with others. His favourite dances are Viennese Waltz, Balboa and Cumbia style Salsa.

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Katherine

Waltz, Polka, 1920s Dances

Katherine started dancing at a young age, starting with folkdance. At 18, she became fascinated with latin and ballroom. She started dancing Lindy Hop and West Coast Swing in the early 2000’s. Katherine and Frank, her partner at the time, organized the Toronto International Swing Dance Championships in 2008; later, she organized the 2011 TISDC. Argentine Tango became her main focus in 2012. Katherine has taught dance since her university days in various studios, public schools, at Swing Toronto, and privately. While mostly dancing Argentine Tango, Lindy Hop, and West Coast Swing over the last decade, there is no doubt in her mind that every single social dance has a spirit of its own that cannot be duplicated by any other dance. As such, she believes that the greater the array of dances one is capable of studying in one’s lifetime, the deeper, wider, and higher one’s spirit soars through movement and music.

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About Us

A Swing Toronto production!

At Waltz Toronto, formerly known as Mostly Waltz Toronto, we take pride in offering a welcoming atmosphere to everyone, from the most inexperienced novice to long time social dance enthusiasts. Our events are among the most established and terrifically fun dances in the city of Toronto, and many would agree that they’re among Toronto’s best kept secrets.

We also like and teach Polka, Ragtime Dancing, Blues Dance, Peabody, Schottische, and other partner dances.

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