PORT TOWNSEND — Professional salsa dance teachers from across the Pacific Northwest will help beginners learn to heat the dance floor tonight and Saturday at the Madrona Mind-Body Institute.
The Centrum arts program and Madrona, a dance and yoga center at Fort Worden State Park, are hosting a salsa dance intensive this weekend for experienced dancers.
But at 8 p.m. both tonight and Saturday, the intensive’s instructors will lead novices through the basic salsa steps — and then turn them loose to polish those moves.
Two salsa dance parties, both open to the public, will follow the lessons and go from 9 p.m. to midnight in Madrona’s ballroom, which is just inside Fort Worden State Park at 200 Battery Way.
Seattle DJ Victor Chavez will be mixing the music both nights.
In addition, during the first part of Saturday’s dance, a Latin jazz band fresh from Centrum’s weekend-long Latin jazz workshop will play for the salseros and salseras.
Admission to each dance party is $12, while admission to the beginners’ classes is $6 per night.
To finish off the weekend, Madrona is hosting a special Soulfull Sunday dance. This free-form dance gathering runs from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. every Sunday, but this week it will be spiced with Latin songs. Drop-in admission, as always, is $10.
For information phone Madrona at 360-344-4475 or visit www.MadronaMindBody.com.