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Wedding Dance Lessons

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Private lessons are available September-June; (no lessons in July or August.) You can make your wedding dance the most joyfully memorable dance of your life, no matter how many left feet you think you have! At our award-winning dance studio, we guarantee you’ll gain the basic dance skills and the confidence to look great and feel relaxed on the dance floor when all eyes are on you. Plus, dancing is a proven stress-reliever as you count down to the Big Day, and our 25+ years of experience prove we will make learning to dance one of the most fun parts of your wedding preparation!

Private dance lessons are one of several options. One to three lessons will usually give you all you need; or take five lessons if you want even more dance moves. You’ll bring your song, or a few songs you’re undecided about, and we’ll give you the footwork, timing, leading and following skills, and as many or few fun dance moves as you’d like.

Your other options: group dance classes or a wedding dance workshop (see below), or any combo of these. It depends; how much fun do you want to have? 🙂

Email us to get info on private lessons and group dance classes.

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Private Dance Lessons for 2 People:

Cancellations: Please give us 48 hours notice by phone if you need to cancel your lesson; but if you have any symptoms of a cold or Covid, or you test positive, cancel at any time with no penalty.

2 people
One (1) one hour lesson:
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2 people
Three (3) one hour lessons:
$285; ($95 per lesson;) save $15.Sign up

2 people
Five (5) one hour lessons:
$450; ($90 per lesson;) save $50.Sign up

Wedding Dance Lessons

Wed. May 8, 2024

OUT To Dance at the Wedding; a semi-private workshop

In-person

Wed. May 8, 2024

7-8:30 pm

Workshop will be held at our private studio in Roslindale; directions will be emailed to you upon registration.

Instructor: Liz Nania, Director of OUT to Dance

A minimum of two couples is needed to run the workshop. (If fewer than two couples register, you may apply your tuition to private lessons, if you choose to do so.) Limited to 5 couples. Most of last year's workshops filled, so register early.

About the Class

Our 1½ Hour Semi-Private Dance Workshop

We’re now planning our Spring 2025 workshops; stay tuned!

This workshop will give you the skills and confidence to dance your first dance of your wedding, or to any slow to mid-tempo song at any event, with grace and confidence. Bring your song! You’ll learn creative slow dancing/schmooze foxtrot, (a contemporary improvisational ballroom dance,) enough to allow you to look and feel natural and spontaneous; you’ll learn the secrets of leading and following smoothly; you’ll experience the fun and romance of partner dancing, and you’ll leave with a sense of relief and triumph, (and a surprising desire to hit the nearest dance floor as soon as possible!)

This workshop will give you some valuable experience dancing in the room with other people, just like on your wedding day! (Except there’ll be way fewer people.) Absolutely no dance experience necessary. (You may also combine this workshop with any private dance lesson package, counting this 1 1/2 hour workshop as only one hour of your total private wedding dance lessons for some savings.) Last season’s workshops filled with waiting lists, so book as soon as possible.

Covid protocol: we do require masking.

$89 per couple / person

Early Bird Registration Expired

$110 per couple / person

Regular Registration

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Will return in 2025; TBD

Your Best Dance Ever

In-person

Will return in 2025; TBD

Workshop will be held at our private studio in Roslindale; directions will be emailed to you upon registration.

Instructor: Liz Nania, Director of OUT to Dance

A minimum of two couples is needed to run the workshop. If fewer than two couples register, you may apply your tuition to private lessons during the same hour as the workshop, if you choose to do so. Most of last year's workshops filled, so register early.

About the Class

A fun 3-session semi-private workshop on creative wedding dancing and “Romance Dancing”. This workshop will return in 2024. Email us for dates.

Create your beautiful first dance in just 3 weeks! You’ll look forward to your first wedding dance once you experience this fun and exciting semi-private workshop. Bring your slow or mid-tempo song (or songs) in any genre; any kind of music is danceable! Join us for three classes in our Roslindale studio. You’ll create a believable personalized dance, uniquely yours, ready for the big day! (Hint: no memorized choreography necessary: you’ll leave with a toolbox of natural well-executed movements and spins, initiated by your new leading and following dance skills.)

This workshop gives you some great experience dancing in the room with other people, just like on your wedding day. (Except there’ll be a lot fewer people, and they won’t be looking at you!) Absolutely no dance experience needed. Space is limited to two to four couples. Most of our last season’s wedding dance workshops filled up, so register early to avoid disappointment!

$150 per couple / person

Early Bird Registration Expired

$175 per couple / person

Regular Registration

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The Three Most Popular Wedding Dance Questions:

What style of dance should we learn for our first wedding dance?
Slow-tempo through mid-tempo songs will require you to learn how to lead and follow, with some simple footwork and a few easy moves. We’ll teach you a simple couple-dance style, (sometimes called “creative slow dancing” or “schmooze foxtrot”). That’s the quickest and easiest dance style to learn, and the most popular in our studio for couples learning for a first wedding dance. However, couples may choose a first dance song from a wide variety of fresh, contemporary music or vintage classics, and the rhythm may turn out to be good for a swing dance, foxtrot, cha cha, rhumba, waltz, salsa, two-step, or something completely different. You can choose your dance style based on what feels best to you, and also the amount of time you want to devote to learning. Your instructor will help you figure out what will be the easiest and most fun.
Should we choreograph our dance?
Unless you’re a seasoned dance performer, we strongly recommend against choreographing (meaning completely memorizing) a “routine”; that’s super time-consuming and almost always ends up looking stiff and unnatural. Plus, it’s added stress for you in the moment. (We won’t allow you to end up dancing robotically while moving your lips, resembling a deer in the headlights, as your guests look on in morbid fascination. Where’s the fun in that?) You may be surprised how easy it is to look impressive and polished with a simple repertoire, danced smoothly and creatively, with no counting or memorization of sequences.
Can we dance to something really different?
Absolutely! We guarantee you: if it has a beat, we can teach you to dance to it. Your first dance is a unique expression of you, and you don’t need to fit any mold. You want to love your song, and your dance!
More questions? Check out our Private Lessons Page.

Student Testimonials

“Who knew that two novice, nervous dancers would acquire enough skill and confidence to pull off a swing dance to Natalie Cole’s L-O-V-E as our first dance? Our family and friends cheered in the middle of it when we did the fancy move you taught us! We can’t thank you enough for helping us learn to dance, trust each other, build confidence, and then let go and have fun. We’ve never danced so much or had as much fun as on our wedding day- it was just what we were hoping for! We will be recommending OUT to Dance to everyone we know.”

Jamie and Ashley Davis, Somerville, MA

“Honestly, our dance lessons were the most fun part of all our wedding preparation; we looked forward to every lesson!”

Sarah and Jeff, Jamaica Plain, MA

I dreaded having to dance at my wedding; now I’m actually excited about it. Unbelievable.

Jason K., Boston, MA

“We had a great time in our dance lessons and will now feel much more at ease dancing in front of everyone at our wedding, and I’m sure we’ll look a lot better in our wedding video, too! We will definitely recommend you to our friends! ”

John and Amy Perry, Boston, MA

We were afraid the song we picked would be hard for us with four left feet. But, all it took was one lesson from you and our wedding dance was awesome. You helped calm our nerves by teaching us the basics like leading and following (who knew that two leads is one too many!). On the Big Day we remembered your instructions and we looked elegant. We even slipped in the twirls you taught us and people cheered! Thank you, Liz!

Stephanie Higgins
Director of the film “The Gay Marriage Thing”
Belmont, MA

My wife Katey and I took dancing lessons with you recently in June. Katey and I wanted to send you a thank you email for the class. It made us so much more relaxed and more confident out there on the dance floor during our 1st dance. Everyone was complimenting us and telling us how well we danced out there and how natural it looked.

Jerry and Katey O’Neill, West Roxbury, MA

Reviews

What our customers are saying

I really can’t believe I let my fear of looking like an idiot get the better of me for so long; if I had found you sooner, I’d have been dancing for years now!

Michael O., Dedham, MA

Who knew that two novice, nervous dancers would acquire enough skill and confidence to pull off a swing dance to Natalie Cole’s L-O-V-E as our first dance? Our family and friends cheered in the middle of it when we did the fancy move you taught us! We can’t thank you enough for helping us learn to dance, trust each other, build confidence, and then let go and have fun. We’ve never danced so much or had as much fun as on our wedding day- it was just what we were hoping for! We will be recommending OUT to Dance to everyone we know.

Jamie and Ashley Davis, Somerville, MA

This is “the place” for dance lessons in Boston. Liz Nania is amazing and I’d give her 6 stars if I could. My partner and I started taking lessons this winter, and with Liz’s help I’ve gone from avoiding the dance floor to looking forward to dance in just a few sessions. She is knowledgeable and patient, and focuses on what you are doing right before moving on to ideas to make you even better.

Her class is the perfect end/beginning to the work week, and it seems she also has a strange telekinetic ability to attract some of the nicest people I have ever met to her classes. 🙂 In addition, her rates are extremely affordable and she offers discounts for taking more than one class in a term.

Tim Bussey, Boston, MA

Taking these dance lessons literally changed my life.

Eileen Thurston, Hyde Park, MA

My partner and I went to Liz to learn swing dancing steps for our wedding, and we took ten private lessons. I consider myself as someone with “two left feet,” but after these lessons I felt like a pro! I am still unable to believe how much I learned, and how confident I now feel on the dance floor. We were amazing at our wedding, and now we go out swing dancing together! We took a follow up group class with Liz for intermediate swing where we learned new steps and met lots of fun other people. We cannot say enough great things about Liz, for she is a wonderful dancer, a patient instructor, and her enthusiasm and joy light up the room. We would highly recommend Out to Dance, and we can’t wait to go back!

Sherri S., Boston, MA

I just want to say thank you for being so patient, kind and fun throughout all of our classes. When I come to your class my heavy load of the week at work or home just melts away, so I thank you from my heart.

Susan Glasper, Boston, MA

When Jason and I were dancing at a wedding, I’m not joking when I tell you that lots of people were coming up to us afterward asking how we learned how to dance like this, including the DJ. When a DJ from the NYC area, who I assume sees lots of weddings/dancing asks us this, this has to be attributed to your fantastic teachings!!! We had a blast in your class and are looking forward to more lessons in the future. Thank you!!!!

Karin and Jason, South Shore

Your relaxed, fun and inviting way makes it so easy for us to participate, learn and have fun. Everyone commented on how you were such a wonderful salsa dance instructor.

Sharon Bueno Washington, Jamaica Plain, MA

My girlfriend and I took 10 lessons in merengue and salsa from Liz. I had never succeeded in dancing, despite many efforts, prior to taking these lessons.

I am a self-confessed, lifelong failure at dancing. It looks like it could be fun and it has been important, in each of my relationships, that dancing become a part of our time away from kids, work, and responsibility. I have taken salsa and swing lessons many times and, each time, I have completely embarrassed myself. I am not a natural at this and I grew to hate the thought of dancing, dance lessons, etc.

I am now settled and my life partner has desperately wanted me to learn to dance. After several years of avoidance, I reluctantly agreed to sign up for 10 lessons with Liz Nania at Out to Dance.

Bottom line: by the 4th or 5th lesson I started to enjoy it. By the 7th or 8th lesson, I could actually dance. Fred Astaire, I’m not. But I’m good enough to have fun and not embarrass myself. And, for my girlfriend, it is important. We just agreed to go out dancing on New Year’s eve. I would have never done this before taking lessons with Liz. I highly recommend her – especially if you are new to dancing and certainly if you, like me, have felt as though it is impossible to learn. She is funny, lively, and she is an expert in teaching novices. If you are considering dance lessons, I recommend that you give Liz a try. She makes it easy. I got more than my money’s worth.

J. Britt, Newton, MA

We were afraid the song we picked would be hard for us with four left feet. But, all it took was one lesson from you and our wedding dance was awesome. You helped calm our nerves by teaching us the basics like leading and following (who knew that two leads is one too many!). On the Big Day we remembered your instructions and we looked elegant. We even slipped in the twirls you taught us and people cheered! Thank you, Liz!

Stephanie Higgins, Director of the film "The Gay Marriage Thing", Belmont, MA

Liz, an accomplished and beloved social dance teacher, has the blessed ability, good heart, and talent to make each and every student of any age, level, ability, and persuasion, feel confident, make progress, get in touch with their individual self expression, and learn the basics and many great moves of all popular forms of social dance. As the executive artistic director and co-founder of the BCCA, and also as a life-long dancer, choreographer, and instructor of many styles and fusions of classical, folkloric, and modern genres of solo and partner dances, I can wholeheartedly say that Liz is the best social dance instructor I have ever met!

Liz has made an art of distilling the essence of every ballroom dance and many other social/popular dances into palatable forms, in combination with a great taste for music, and an ability to show both the fun, cardiovascular, rhythmic, and classy nature of every dance, and over the years, Liz has always been my first choice to recommend a social dance instructor to those interested!

Dan Yonah Ben-Dror Marshall, choreographer for Walt Disney's "The Finest Hours"; Executive Artistic Director, BCCA

Liz is an exceptional dance instructor. I have hired her extensively over the last 2 years for special events and she is top notch! A joy to work with and she makes everyone feel like they could be on Dancing with the Stars!

Kristen Porter, Boston, MA

These dance classes are pure joy- the high point of my week.

Sarah Bassler, Boston, MA

Liz’s dance lessons are lighthearted, fun, and unintimidating. Those of us with little dance experience or aptitude learn easily, and have a great time; more advanced students get a little something extra to keep them busy as well. Liz is a delightful and effective instructor, and I highly recommend her classes!

Marilyn Yohe, Somerville, MA

We had the most wonderful time; never having taken partner dance lessons you immediately made us feel comfortable and excited. We had such a great time learning swing, and as two teachers we couldn’t stop raving about what a great teacher you are and how wonderful your style was.

Sharon L., Quincy, MA

Jess and I had an extraordinary wedding! Our dance was most beautiful and magical. Thanks for all your teaching and coaching – it made a difference in the way we are together!

Michael Lynch and Jessica Day, Newton, MA

Liz Nania is a gentle, playful and highly skilled dance instructor. If you think nobody could teach you to be a fancy dancer, she will change your mind!

Kathleen Sands, Boston, MA

Liz is quite simply the best dance instructor I’ve ever had. Whether in a group setting or in a private lesson, she gives excellent instruction, and is always positive and encouraging with students of all levels.

Ailsa Wu, Lexington, MA

Liz, you are a truly amazing teacher—unfailingly upbeat, encouraging, and inspiring. You make even the most challenging steps fun to learn! I only wish I’d started taking these classes years ago, but I’m amazed by how far I’ve come in a few short months. No matter how tired I am when I come to dance class, I always leave feeling energized. Thank you for all you have taught me!

Suzanne W., Roslindale, MA

A family member gave us 3 private dance lessons as a wedding present a few months before our big day. We were nervous for our first dance, and we also were initially nervous about these dance lessons! Would we be the worst students Liz had ever had? Would she be able to teach us in 3 hours to look good on the dance floor? After the first five minutes with Liz, we knew our worries were completely unfounded; she is truly wonderful. Unbelievably to us at the time, dance lessons with Liz became the part of wedding planning we most looked forward to, and the lessons are one of the parts of the process we remember with the greatest fondness. Needless to say, we highly recommend Liz and Out to Dance!

Julie Bowerman, Somerville, MA

Doing the private lessons before our wedding didn’t just teach us how to dance, it also provided a much needed respite from the chaos of planning and preparing. We would be super stressed out and grumpy when we arrived and then your happy spirit and the joy of moving would inevitably seep into us and we’d always leave smiling and relaxed. Many people think the dance is a nerve wracking bit of the wedding event, especially if you “can’t dance.”

Learning your dance seems like an impossible task when you already have so much to think about, but this was the exact opposite of our experience. We didn’t learn a choreographed dance, we just learned how to move together and a few steps to do so with “flair.” Ultimately, on the wedding dance floor we weren’t dancing, we were just spending time together, alone in the middle of the party, taking a break and enjoying each us other’s company as newlyweds.

It was possibly the best part of the event and I am 100 percent sure this is because of the way you approached teaching us. Thank you!!!!

Angela H., Boston, MA

We had a great time in our ballroom dance lessons and will now feel much more at ease dancing in front of everyone at our wedding, and I’m sure we’ll look a lot better in our wedding video, too! We will definitely recommend you to our friends!

John and Amy Perry, Boston, MA

Not only did I get better at swing dancing, I got better at dancing in general! Liz built up my confidence in moving my body to music such that I felt more comfortable no matter the style of dance.

Mike S., Boston, MA

Wedding Dance Lessons

Now booking private lessons and group classes

We were awarded an “A” rating and Super Service Award on Angie’s List!

Private Dance Lessons for 2 People:

Wedding Dance Lessons

OUT To Dance at the Wedding; a semi-private workshop

About the Class

Your Best Dance Ever

About the Class

We also offer…

The Three Most Popular Wedding Dance Questions:

Student Testimonials

Dance Lessons

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