About Nick & Melissa Enge

Nick and Melissa Enge are social dance instructors and historians at the University of Texas at Austin. Before teaching at UT, they studied and taught with Richard Powers at Stanford University. In collaboration with Richard, they have written three books on social dance, Waltzing: A Manual for Dancing and Living, Cross-Step Waltz: A Dancer’s Guide,  and The Book of Mixers: 100 Easy-Teach Dances for Getting Acquainted. In addition to teaching and writing about dance, Nick and Melissa are co-founders of the Library of Dance (a website that features an annotated bibliography of over 6,700 primary sources relating to social dance from the 15th century to present as well as over 2,400 videos demonstrating selected dance steps), and the University of Dance (a website featuring full-length teaching videos of selected dances). In 2023, they won the Undergraduate Teaching Award in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at UT.