Clave Musicality Workshop & Environmental Justice

Try our *NEW* CLAVE workshops for Salsa dancers co-instructed with PICOSO'S favorite percussionist Lalo Bello.This monthly offering is created to help Salseros improve on2 dancing and musicality on the dance floor.Save the date: 5/19 6:30-8pm. BALORICO is supporting environmental justice on 5/18. Participate, spread the word. Dancing is more than dance-its action. It is a threat to think about how the aims of dance, movement and art, that build future-oriented wholistic minds and bodies, collide with future-produced toxins and detrimental pollutants incurred by Shell's intended arctic oil mining in our Seattle ports. Visualize how your daily creativity can also act to preserve quality of life standards for tomorrow...see you on our dance floor!

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