Adult Class Summer 2025
June 9 – August 17, 2025
Dance Place will be closed on June 19 and August 7, 2025
Move with us this Summer! All Dance Place adult classes are drop-in based. Students are highly encouraged to register ahead of time to ensure your space is reserved! There will be a waitlist available to sign-up for through Sawyer.
For general adult class questions, please email us at adultclasses@danceplace.org.
Summer 2025 Schedule
Monday:
- 6:30pm-8:00pm
Intermediate/Advanced Modern with Sarah Beth Oppenheim - 6:30pm-8:00pm
Heels Series with Daché - 6:30-8:00pm
Jazz Technique & Choreography with Christina Collins
Tuesday:
- 6:30pm-7:45pm
West African with Tiffany Harris
Wednesday:
- 7:00pm-8:30pm
Rooting the Dance Hip-Hop Series with Chitra Subramanian, Diyanna Monet, Annastazia “Duchess” Unce, Angela Gladue, and Ama Law - 7:00-8:30pm
Cuban Dance Workshops with DC Casineros. Class is every other week beginning June 11.
Thursday:
- 6:30pm-8:00pm
West African with Sylvia Soumah - 6:30pm-8:00pm
Beginner Ballet with Brenna Dames
Saturday:
- 9:30am-11am
Beginning/Advanced Modern with Carla Perlo - 11:15am-12:45pm
Intermediate Modern with Deborah Riley - 1:00pm – 2:30 pm
- 1:00pm-2:30pm
Advanced Contemporary with Jamison Curcio & Shanice Mason
Sunday:
- 2:00-5:00pm
Contact Improvisation with DC Contact Improv
Class Descriptions
Explore the richness of African Dance traditions from Guinea, Mali and Senegal.
This class uses pop music to disrupt the atmosphere of traditional ballet classes. All experiences, gender expressions, and bodies are welcome as we tap into the strength and precision that ballet can develop.
Contact Improvisation holds a class during the first hour of each session to help newcomers and experienced dancers alike develop and deepen their skills and understanding of Contact Improvisation. This leads into a jam. The 2-hour jam is a safe space for spontaneous dance connections. On the first Sunday of each month we practice an “Underscore,” a kind of combined class and jam that takes up the entire session. People of all levels of movement experience are welcome.
Learn different Cuban popular and social dances such as Cuban Son, Casino and a lively and fun group dance called Rueda de Casino. Popularly known as “Cuban salsa.”
Heels dance class at Dance Place will be an amazing and innovative dance experience. Classes will focus on building confidence and allow dancers to discover new possibilities about their dance journey. All classes will focus on movement across the floor and choreography that welcomes dancers from all levels and backgrounds. Dancers are encouraged to have experience dancing in their choice of heels prior to taking class.
Experience a wide range of dance and movement techniques including Laban/Bartinieff, Horton, Social Dance and Yoga, using floorwork, gesture phrases and combinations.
Scheduled Visiting Artist Master Classes and Intergenerational Family Classes. Check back here for the latest updates for visit danceplace.org/classes-workshops
This series brings together a diverse and multi-talented group of women artists who embody Hip Hop in the DMV. Pulling from their cultural roots and stories of transformation within Hip Hop culture, these artists will share Hip Hop dance as a form of community connection, soul connection, and joy. This series is open to all levels and experiences!
Influences of classical technique are fused with contemporary and improvisational movement practices while we explore floorwork, inversions, weight shifting, and partnering.
This class is centered around the exploration of Black and Afrocentric movement such as, Afrobeats, Hip-Hop, Step, Majorette, Baltimore/Jersey Mix and more.
In this high-energy Jazz class, we will explore directional facings, rhythm, test your endurance, and center our focus on the performance value while also moving in and out of the floor. We will be using both Jazz and Contemporary concepts as inspiration for this class.
Class Locations
Dance Place Cafritz Theater: 3225 8th St NE
Dance Place Hyman M. Perlo Studio: 3225 8th St NE
Brookland Artspace Lofts (BAL) Studio: 3305 8th St NE
Edgewood Arts Center (EAC): 3415 8th St NE
Photos above: Mama Sylvia Soumah, Orange Grove Dance
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