TWDCC Adult Programs
Adult Classes are drop-in only and may be cancelled or changed on short notice. Plan to arrive early to assure your spot, to fill out the TWDCC Waiver, and so your teacher can start their class on time.
All adult teachers, staff, dancers, drummers, and participants are required to sign a waiver the first time they take a class.
Adult classes ask varying amounts for class. Please arrive with cash or be ready to pay via a digital app like Venmo, Paypal, Cashapp, or something similar.
Monday
Studio A
Connections: A 5Rhythms Dance Class
Tom Truman
Mondays
7:15PM – 9:00PM
Cost: $20
Studio 111
This studio is available to be rented starting at 7:30PM for your class or rehearsal!
Host your class or rehearsal here, or find a slot in the morning.
Tuesday
Studio A
Santa Cruz Dance Circle Medicine
6:45-9PM
Cost: Donations $5-25 suggested, but no one is ever turned away due to lack of funds.
Studio 111
Wednesday
Studio A
Worldanz DCF with Gina Garcia
10-11:30AM
A high energy fitness program and joyous exploration of global dance forms, infused with crazy cardio spurts, twerking, and general goofy behavior.
All levels welcome!
For more info visit: www.worldanz.com
Cost: $15 drop-in/discount class cards available. FIRST CLASS FREE!!
Beginning Contemporary for Adults
with Molly Katzman
7PM – 8:15PM
Cost: $15 for one class, or $60 for 5 classes
Class canceled: 9/30/23
This class is for the adult who has never danced, who hasn’t danced in years, who dances every day and can’t stop, won’t stop. This class is all about connecting to our bodies, our sensation, our joy of moving; you could never get it wrong since there is an endlessness of possibilities. We will also play with gravity and the weight of our bodies and practice releasing into momentum so we can fly, swing, swoop, surrender, yield, and fall. Let’s remember we have bodies who have an incredible capacity to feel and what it’s like to move together in person again.
Studio 111
Class with Oumou Faye
7-8:30PM
TWDCC Diaspora Performance Artist
Cost: $15
Thursday
Studio 111
This studio is available to be rented starting at 8PM for your class or rehearsal!
Host your class or rehearsal here, or find a slot in the morning.
Friday
Studio A
Haitian Class with Shawn Merriman-Roberts
TWDCC Diaspora Performance Artist
6:30PM – 8PM
Cost: $15
*Shawn’s class only:
Vaccinated dancers and drummers only.
Proof of vaccination and ID are required.
Taught to all levels, from beginners to advanced dancers. All are welcome. I will be teaching both Rada and Petro dances such as Yanvalou, Nago, Mahi, Congo and Petro as well as other Haitian dances.
Studio 111
This studio is available to be rented starting at 6:45PM for your class or rehearsal!
Host your class or rehearsal here, or find a slot in the morning.
Saturday
Studio A
Salsa Rueda Cuban-Style
with Ramon Ramos Alayo
1st, 2nd, and 4th Saturdays of the month
11AM – 12:30PM
Cost: $15
African Diasporic Dance
with Rotating Guest Artist Teacher
3rd Saturday every month!
11AM – 12:30PM
Cost: $15
Click here for more info!
Studio 111
This studio is available to be rented starting at 3PM!
Host your weekly class or rehearsal here.
Sunday
Studio A
Santa Cruz Dance Circle
9AM – 10:55AM: DANCE
10:55 – 11:15AM: Closing Circle
Cost: Donations $5-25 suggested, but no one is ever turned away due to lack of funds.
Congolese Class with Vivien Bassouamina
TWDCC Diaspora Performance Artist
11:30AM – 1PM
Cost: $20
Studio 111
Balinese Dance with Noni
4/23/23 – 5/28/23
11:30AM-12:30PM
***Special Dance Week Class: 4/22 from 5-6PM
Sliding scale, $10 – $20
Mindfulness movements using the gait, gestures, breathing, and music of Balinese dance. We welcome people of any gender, age, and level.
Arts and culture are the soul and breath in Balinese life, therefore dance is also practiced as spiritual and artistic expression. The poses in Balinese dance are angular and maintained to support the movements and the articulation of limbs, trunk, head, and facial expressions that are coordinated with the tempo and rhythms in Balinese gamelan orchestra.
The most revered essence of Balinese dance is taksu. Similar to charisma or soul, taksu involves projecting subtle emotions and movements in moments of apparent stillness within the chaos of dance and music.
Noni (Luh Andarawati) is a dancer from Klungkung, Bali, whose entire life has been surrounded by Balinese and Indonesian arts and culture. She specializes in Balinese dance, and further expanded her repertoire to include dances from Java and studied some modern, contemporary, and classical dances in the US.
