Here's what others have to say about Joan:

I want you to know that my dance partner and I had an absolutely marvelous time in your workshop this weekend! This will go down as one of those WOW events in our lives :)
Berea Waltz Weekend. 2012

Thank you, again, for a wonderful weekend. We have received nothing but positive and enthusiastic comments about you, specifically, and the weekend in general.
Berea Waltz Weekend organizer, 2012

You encourage people to relate in a positive way, which invites the personal growth which can be the best part of learning, if not its main purpose.
College of San Mateo, 2012

I want to thank you for the delightful, well-taught, well-prepared lessons at Newport. I really enjoyed your demo of the Half and Half. Again, thanks for the great teaching and choreography. You are one of the top five dance teachers I have ever studied with.
Newport Vintage Dance Week, 2012

Joan Walton’s energetic, focused teaching, theatrical choreographies and morning warmups have become well known to dancers over the years. She has the ability to communicate movement concepts with energy, humor and interest. A keen observer of learning styles, Joan has an ongoing interest in understanding the many ways that people learn to dance.

Her classes in Ragtime, Jazz Age, Swing Era and 19th Century dance have been seen at Vintage Dance workshops across the USA, in Paris and the Czech Republic. As Assistant Director and dancer in Cincinnati with Richard Powers' Flying Cloud Vintage Dance Troupe for 10 years, she performed on the ABC-TV mini-series North and South.

Joan designed choreography for award-winning operas and musical theatre productions at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, and other schools in the midwest. She was a guest artist with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra under the direction of Keith Lockhart, performing Morton Gould’s challenging Tap Dance Concerto.

Along with free-lancing around the country and teaching dance at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, she currently teaches Dance in World Cultures and Dance Appreciation at San Jose State University, along with Social Dance, Swing Dance, Waltz, Latin and Tap Dance classes at the College of San Mateo. She has a Master’s degree in Dance Education from Stanford University’s top-ranked School of Education