Tuesday Night Revival is a series of Balkan dances, aimed at experienced dancers. Our repertoire and our name come from the old MIT Folk Dance Club Tuesday night Balkan dances which were held from around 1965 to the late 1990s but our dances are now on Saturday. (Occasionally we have a Friday night dance because of scheduling issues.)
We dance at the First Parish in Waltham, 50 Church St., Waltham, MA, The church has two parking lots. The one closest to the room where we dance (Whitcomb Hall) has an entrance on Church St., but it is often full of cars from another group meeting in the chapel. There is another parking lot on the other side of the church with an entrance around the corner on School St. which is rarely full; there is also street parking nearby. (One exception: On March 7, 2026, our dance will be at the Park Avenue Congregational Church, 50 Paul Revere Road, Arlington, because of scheduling issues.)
Our dances are usually the first Saturday of every month, from 8 to 11 pm, but occasionally they are on a different day because of scheduling issues.
We have a YouTube channel, thanks to Andrew Carnie, of excerpts of some of our online dances.
Schedule: See below for the current schedule. Mailing lists: Sign up for one or more of our mailing lists to get reminders of upcoming dances or to participate in discussions about our dances. Contact: For more information, contact Ira Gessel at gessel@brandeis.edu or 781-648-6887.
Here’s the schedule of our upcoming indoor dances, with programmers (when known). They are at the First Parish in Waltham, 50 Church St, from 8 to 11 pm. For these attending in person, admission is $10. We request that attendees be vaccinated. These dances will also be on Zoom, at https://tinyurl.com/tnrzoom. (The meeting ID is 99176986857, with no password.)
| 2025 | ||
| Saturday | June 14 | Sue Rose |
| Saturday | July 5 | Patrick Yacono |
| Saturday | August 2 | Barbara Zeles |
| Saturday | September 6 | Paula Rosenstock |
| Friday | October 17 | Tom Roby |
| Saturday | November 22 (new date!) | Ira Gessel |
| Saturday | December 20 | Jeanne Clifford |
| 2026 | ||
| Saturday | January 3 | Syrie Fried |
| Saturday | February 7 | TBD |
| Saturday | March 7 (new date — at the Park Avenue Congregational Church in Arlington) | TBD |
| Saturday | April 4 | TBD |
| Saturday | May 16 | Sue Rose |
| Saturday | June 13 | TBD |
| Saturday | July 4 | TBD |
| Saturday | August 1 | TBD |
| Saturday | September 5 | TBD |
While the weather is good, we hold outdoor dances on some Sunday afternoons (or occasionally Monday holidays), organized by Barbara Gottfried. For location information, sign up for our mailing list or email me. The tentative dates for upcoming (2025) outdoor dances are
| Sunday, September 21 |
| Sunday, October 5 |
| Sunday, November 9, 2–4:30 pm (new date!) |
| Thursday, January 1 (2026) |
Tuesday Night Revival 