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.

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. These dances will also be on Zoom, at https://tinyurl.com/tnrzoom. (The meeting ID is 99176986857, with no password.)

2026
SaturdayJune 13Jane Katz
SaturdayJuly 11 Paula Rosenstock
SaturdayAugust 1 Syrie Fried
SaturdaySeptember 5 Tom Roby
SaturdayOctober 3 TBA
SaturdayNovember 7 TBA
SaturdayDecember 19 TBA
2027
SaturdayJanuary 3TBD
SaturdayFebruary 6TBD
SaturdayMarch 6TBD
SaturdayApril 3TBD
SaturdayMay 15TBD
SaturdayJune 12TBD
SaturdayJuly 3 TBD
SaturdayAugust 7 TBD
SaturdaySeptember 4 TBD

When 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. Here is the schedule of outdoor dances for the summer of 2026. They are all on Sunday afternoons except for September 7 (Labor Day).

April 191–3:30 pm
May 31 3–5:30 pm
June 21 3–5:30 pm
July 193–5:30 pmbirthday celebration
August 163–5:30 pm
August 303–5:30 pmRed Drum for second half
September 73–5:30 pmLabor Day picnic