The San Diego Viennese Waltz Club maintains several controlled email lists via Yahoo Groups as a service to the dance community, including:

• San Diego Waltz (planning, questions, discussion, announcements)
    
• San Diego Waltz Event (announcements only)

Please sign on to one of these email lists for announcements of waltz dances and classes, and to discuss, plan, and encourage waltz-related events. And then come to dance!

Our events are announced via the email lists.

The best place to ask questions is on the San Diego Waltz discussion list; or send us a note:
dance@SanDiegoWaltz.org
  

  
Music in waltz time had come to England from the Continent in the late 1790s, when certain aspects of the dance, notably its entwining arm movements and the turning of the lady under her partner's arm, received leering comments in the newspapers:

The Balls at Southampton are exceedingly lively, and well-attended. The young Ladies are particularly favourable to a German Dance, called the Volse; for squeezing, hugging, &c, it is excellent in its kind, and more than one Lady has actually fainted in the middle of it.

The idea of a couple clasping each other even more closely, with one hand on the other's waist, was held to be positively indecent, and this style of waltzing did not become acceptable until after 1815.

Deirdre Le Faye
Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels