The Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company

The Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company cordially invites you to the second annual Claremont Dance Festival! This highly anticipated event (much anticipation generated from the many different ways it has been publicized, and it's finally getting around to here - better late than never!) will happen this upcoming weekend and will be primarily located at the Platt Campus Center at Harvey Mudd College.

The event will feature a wide variety of dance lessons, for people of all levels, taught by both students and renowned professionals in many different styles, including International Latin and Standard, swing, blues, salsa, and argentine tango. In addition, the festival will feature 3 full scale evening events.

On Thursday, December 4th (yep that's tomorrow!) the festival will open with a special night of dancing at the Hip Kitty Jazz and Fondue in Claremont (their webpage). As a special promotion, if you email festival@claremontballroom.org with your intention to come at 7pm, you will get a free swing lesson (normally $5)! Paul Roach will be teaching the beginning lesson, and we'll have special guest instructors teaching an intermediate lesson. Following the lesson, there will be live music, food, drinks and dancing from 8pm-12am - come celebrate one of the hippest and coolest placest to listen to live music in Claremont!

Friday night features Dancing with the Claremont Stars (cheer on Claremont staff, faculty, and administrators as they compete for the annual title!) followed by a formal black and white ball. Paul Roach will teach a complimentary Social Waltz lesson starting at 8pm, and this will be followed by performances, games, and dancing for the rest of the evening (until midnight).

Our intercollegiate night takes place on Saturday and is an evening full of dancing and so many fun games (like quickstep freeze tag and endurance Viennese waltz) that people drive from as far away as Santa Barbara to attend. What's the secret? Why is it so much fun? Maybe it's something in the water...or maybe you should come find out for yourself! The night will also contain performances from the Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company.

For more information (to get even more excited about!), including locations and a complete schedule, please visit our festival page.

Note:  Students of Harvey Mudd College can go to one of the two events on Friday and Saturday evening for FREE.  If they would like to attend both nights, they will only need to pay for one.