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  • blue text with an image if a dancer on a purple background reads: DanceFit for body and mind

    DANCE FIT

    Join us for a dance series designed to keep your body moving and your spirits up! New dance styles every month, meeting Saturday mornings. Although bringing a friend is always welcome, a partner is never needed for any of our DanceFit classes, just come ready to move & groove. 

    $15/class | Cash, Check, or Credit Card Accepted at the Door 

    Further details in class descriptions!

    April | 10:00am - 11:00am | Shake Your Soul with Katy Baytosh and Cheryl Sabo

    Experience the JOY of dance through Shake Your Soul! Shake Your Soul is a dynamic movement practice that energizes your body, relaxes your nervous system, and awakens your soul through a dance repertoire set to world music. Fun, freeing, meditative, graceful, and sweaty, the class invites you to dance from within and with others in community. Absolutely no dance experience is needed to experience this body mind connection. This class is appropriate for all levels and welcomes all movers and music lovers.

    Three classes on Saturdays: April 5, 19, 26. Come to any or all!  [NOTE: SEE BELOW FOR APRIL 12 INFORMATION]

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    Presenter: Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts & Culture

    Instructors: Katy Baytosh and Cheryl Sabo

    Time: 10:00am - 11:00am

    Location: Ballroom Back Room 

    Admission: $15 Cash, Check or Credit Card. No pre-registration, pay at the door.

    Ages: 18+

    Email: info@glenechopark.org

     

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    Instructor Katy Baytosh

    APRIL 12 ONLY!

    Join this special one-time Saturday morning class to experience the spontaneous creativity Movement Improvisation offers. Class covers a warm up, group dance/movement structures that lend themselves to a collective, ensemble-building environment and beautiful music to move your body, mind, and soul

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    Presenter: Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts & Culture

    Instructor(s): Annetta Dexter Sawyer

    Time: 10:00am - 11:00am

    Location: Ballroom Back Room 

    Admission: $15 Cash, Check or Credit Card. No pre-registration, pay at the door.

    Ages: 18+

    Email: info@glenechopark.org

     

    April | 11:15am - 12:15pm | Bollywood & Bhangra with Smita Khatri 

    Dance to the soul-stirring rhythms of India and feel your spirits lift! In this class you will learn: Bhangra — a celebratory and uplifting folk dance from the state of Punjab in North India and Bollywood dance — which borrows from Indian classical and folk dance styles, and is seen in Indian cinema.

    Four consecutive classes on Saturdays: April 5, 12, 19, and 26. Come to any or all!

    ** Please Note: This class will meet in the Hall of Mirrors Dance Studio on April 5th, 12th, and 19th. On April 26th, we will meet in the Ballroom Back Room. 

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    Presenter: Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts & Culture

    Instructor(s): Smita Khatri

    Time:  11:15am - 12:15pm

    Location: Hall of Mirrors Dance Studio on April 5th, 12th, and 19th + Ballroom Back Room on April 26th

    Admission: $15 Cash, Check or Credit Card. No pre-registration, pay at the door.

    Ages: 10+

    Email: info@glenechopark.org

     

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    Instructor Smita Khatri

    May | 6:30pm - 7:15pm | Zumba with Keira Hart

    Join Keira Hart for upbeat evening cardio latin dance ZUMBA classes! No experience needed to come and have fun and get your heart rate up while burning calories. All you need are comfortable shoes and clothes to get this party started!

    Four consecutive classes on Wednesdays: May 7, 14, 21, and 28. Come to any or all!

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    Presenter: Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts & Culture

    Instructor: Keira Hart

    Time: 6:30pm - 7:15pm

    Location: Ballroom Back Room

    Admission: $15 Cash, Check or Credit Card. No pre-registration, pay at the door.

    Ages: 18+

    Email: info@glenechopark.org

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    Instructor Keira Hart

     

    May | 11:15am - 12:15pm | Bollywood & Bhangra with Smita Khatri 

    Dance to the soul-stirring rhythms of India and feel your spirits lift! In this class you will learn: Bhangra — a celebratory and uplifting folk dance from the state of Punjab in North India and Bollywood dance — which borrows from Indian classical and folk dance styles, and is seen in Indian cinema.

    Four consecutive classes on Saturdays: May 10, 17, 24, and 31. Come to any or all!

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    Presenter: Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts & Culture

    Instructor(s): Smita Khatri

    Time:  11:15am - 12:15pm

    Location: Hall of Mirrors Dance Studio 

    Admission: $15 Cash, Check or Credit Card. No pre-registration, pay at the door.

    Ages: 10+

    Email: info@glenechopark.org

     

    Smita Khatri headshot


    Instructor Smita Khatri


    *Please note that Line Dancing from 11:15am-12:15pm had to be canceled for the month of March. Stay tuned for Line Dancing to return in the future.
     

    For more information on dance events and programs, visit our dances page.