About Us
Celebrating 50 Years of Dance at Westview
(Video compiled by current member, Margie Martin)
This video celebrates fifty years of the Westview Dance Club’s history! Go back to the 70s when Winnipeg was a hotbed of ballroom dance and people were dancing 4-5 nights a week. A time when the Westview Dance Club was known city wide for their costume parties. Don’t miss the demos of the three ringed circus with one song but a different dance in each ring (rhumba, triple swing, cha cha) to the Emerald Ball Viennese Waltz showcase, to the more recent 2011 Tango demonstration. One member from 1993 shared her feelings about the club: “We love the elegance of the dinner dances; the gowns, the glamour, the sparkles and the spats”. This video inspires us to dance and captures the spirit of the dance club over the last 50 years.
History
In 1970 a small group of people were dancing at a street party on a Cortez Bay driveway in the Westwood area of Winnipeg. While they were dancing the rhumba, foxtrot, swing and waltz, they came up with the idea for starting a dance club. It started with 13 couples practicing in the Kirkfield United Church and developed into the oldest dance club in Winnipeg and one of the longest running in Western Canada.
The Westview Dance Club
is a non-profit, volunteer run organization offering ballroom dance lessons and social dance events in a friendly, noncompetitive environment. Our dance lessons include: Waltz, Foxtrot, Rhumba, Cha Cha, Swing, and Tango. Whether you are new to ballroom dance or familiar with some steps, you are welcome in the Westview Dance Club.
