Beginners-Intermediate Salsa Dancing Lessons

Beginners-Intermediate Salsa Class Monday at 8pm, now through October 30th with our talented and friendly instructor Juliana Mendonca!  Classes are drop-in friendly and affordable! $5 for students, $7-$10 sliding scale for non-students per 1 hour class.

Juliana’s teaching style will make you feel the music and the rhythms before you get technical. This is a beginners-intermediate class, so come learn salsa or brush up on your salsa dancing skills every Monday at 8pm!

About the Instructor:

Juliana is a dance performer, choreographer and teacher from Venezuela. She graduated with a degree in dance from University Institute of Caracas, Venezuela (IUDANZA – UNEARTE) in 2005, she also served as an instructor at the Performing Arts Department of the University of the Andes in Mérida, Venezuela (U.L.A.) (2012-2015); and at the Traditional Dance Program of the National University for the Arts (UNEARTE) (2008); Juliana also served as an independent Yoga and Latin Rhythms dance teacher. In 2011 she received certification as a Yoga instructor by the Physiology of Exercise Program of the University of the Andes (U.L.A.), Mérida, Venezuela. In 2005, Juliana co-founded Raíz de Agua, a music and dance company, which is her principal artistic endeavor. Since then, she has performed mostly as a solo artist with the Company and through dance has found a way to connect her creativity to spirit and nature, compounded with a unique feminine and artistic self-awareness.

Juliana has worked in collaboration with other artists and companies such as Sarta de Cuentas, an Afro-Venezuelan contemporary dance company, Fundación Andróginos, a physical theater company and played the leading role in Xarop, a movie about Venezuelan Llanero music and dance. She has also worked in a wide variety of projects and events in conventional and non-conventional spaces such as plazas, galleries, museums, parks and national and international festivals such as: 21 Marató L’Espectacle (Barcelona, Spain. 2004), Festival Internacional Mujeres en La Danza (Quito, Ecuador. 2005, 2007), Festival Jóvenes Coreógrafos (Caracas, Venezuela. 2003, 2004, 2005), Festival del Movimiento, (Mérida, Venezuela. 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014), VI Festival Mundial de Solos y Duetos (Caracas, Venezuela. 2009), Festival Internacional de Teatro (Tovar, Venezuela. 2011, 2013, 2015) and V Encuentro Internacional Augusta Gran Fraternidad Universal, (Mérida, Venezuela. 2014). Juliana currently lives in Oakland, California with her husband and daughter, working as a dancer, choreographer and teacher.