Starlight Strut is a Queer Country-Western Dance for Women, Trans People, and Non-Binary People in Oakland, California.
Join us for our Fall Harvest Dance!!! 🍂🍁✨ the leaves are changing, we are getting into cozier weather and it’s a great time to reflect on the past year.
There is so much to be grateful for with our community and we want to encourage folks to join in on our clothing swap during the dance! Anything not exchanged will be donated locally.
⭐️ 6:30 - Doors Open
🍁 6:45 - Line Dance Lessons
🍂 7:15 - Partner Dance Lessons
🪩 8:00 - Dance Party Begins!
We will be at 200 Grand Ave in Oakland in the first floor ballroom and lounge.
Tickets are $15 at the door, sliding scale available. (card/mobile/cash) No one turned away for lack of funds!
Want to be a volunteer? Send us a message. Volunteers get into the dance for free 🌟
There will be no December dance, so please join us for our final dance of 2026! 🧡
Partner Dancing
At the social dance we mostly do country-western two-step, country waltz, and west coast swing—and little bit of nightclub two-step and east coast swing. Before the dance we will have beginner and intermediate lessons for partner dancing in two rooms.
Our culture is to ask each other to dance, agree to lead or follow (or sometimes switch), and get consent. Often the answer is “yes” and we dance to a song that is about 3 minutes long. It is okay to politely decline for any reason, and we move on.
Line Dancing
We love line dancing and have lessons for beginner and intermediate line dances in two rooms before the social dance.
At the main dance, we will call a pair of line dances every half-hour. After the start of the main social dance, we will open the lounge across the hall for a line dance marathon. The set list is posted and dancers are encouraged to move between rooms and try different things.
