The Santa Cruz dance community offers a wide variety of dance styles and dance locations to choose from to learn how to dance, to watch, or to just do it.
Studios
- Aerial Playground: Dance, Studio Rental (Santa Cruz)
- Ballet Arts Center (Scotts Valley) Ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, hip hop, acting
- Body and Soul (Downtown)
- Dancenter (Capitola) Ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, modern, bellydance, pilates, choreography, yoga, swing, flamenco
- Dance Odyssey Studio (Soquel)
- Dance Synergy (Aptos) Zumba, hip hop, kick boxing, tango, west coast swing, ballet, house, cardio
- Elaine's Dance Studio (Soquel) Hip hop, tap, ballet, cardio, jazz, acrobatic, musical theater
- Inner Dance (Westside) Continuum Movement, yoga
- International Academy Of Dance (Westside) Ballet, Irish step dance, bellydance, modern, jazz, tap
- Minorsan Self-Defense & Fitness (Westside) Zumba
- Motion Pacific (Downtown) Breakdancing, belly dance, burlesque
- Music Together Studio (Midtown)
- No Limits Dance Studio (Soquel) Tap, jazz, lyrical, hip hop, breakdancing, popping, contemporary
- Pacific Arts Complex
- Palomar Ballroom (Downtown) Ballroom, swing, salsa
- Pleasure Point Fitness & Dance Center (Capitola) Bellydance, Vinyasa Flow, Flamenco, Hula, Zumba, Yoga
- Santa Cruz Dance Company (Soquel) Hip hop, street dance, jazz, cardio funk, samba, ballet, tap, hip hop, zumba
- Shuffles Dance Studio (Scotts Valley) Tap, jazz, ballet, hip hop, swing, musical theater
- Skylight Ballroom (Scotts Valley) Latin, Ballroom, and Swing
- Steps Dance & Performing Arts (Watsonville) Ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, zumba, yoga, pilates, folkdance
- Vargas Academy of Gymnastic Arts & Dance (Scotts Valley)
Instruction
Aerial Dance
Axis Syllabus
Ballet
Bellydance
- Bellydance Basics
- Belly Dance By Rebekah
- Bellydance With Janelle
- Belly Dance With Sahar
- Crystal Silmi Belly Dance
- Helene
- Tamara Nelson
- Valli Bellydance
Brazillian
Flamenco
Fusion
General
Hip Hop
Hoop Dance
- Move Hoops Hoop Dance
Hula
Poi
- Marina Dance Poi, aerial, bellydance
Polynesian
Salsa
Organizations/Clubs
Dance Companies, Performers, and Dancers
- Amah-ka-tura Traditional Ohlone Performances
- Tandy Beal
- Dulce Fuego Productions
- Esperanza del Valle
- Flex Dance Company
- The Gravity Arts Aerial Dance
- The Gravity Girls Aerial Dance
- Mir & A Company Aerial, Fire, Modern
- Nocturnal Sunshine Fire Dance Troupe
- Salsa Rueda Santa Cruz
- Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre Ballet Company
- Shah and Blah Productions Dance Theatre
- Sharif Male Belly Dancer
Events / Dance Jams
- Dance Church
- Santa Cruz Dance Circle (or HERE) Free-form Sunday morning dance jam.
- Thrill The World Santa Cruz Locals dance to Thriller
- Aerial Dance Open Training
Clubs/Where To Go Out Dancing
- The 418 Project (Downtown)
- 515 Kitchen And Cocktails (Downtown)
- Blue Lagoon (Downtown)
- Cafe Mare (Downtown)
- The Catalyst (Downtown)
- Mad House Bar (Seabright)
- Motiv (Downtown)
- Red Restaurant & Bar (Downtown)
- Rosie McCann's (Downtown)
See also Bars & Nightclubs and DJ Artists & Venues
On Line Resources
- Belly Dance of Santa Cruz On Line Group
- Salsa by the Sea on Facebook Salsa dancing by the Santa Cruz Wharf
- http://www.salsacruz.com/
- Salsa Now Yahoo Group
- Fire University - Santa Cruz group on Tribe.net
- Santa Cruz Experimental Dance group on Tribe.net
- Santa Cruz Fire group on Tribe.net
- Santa Cruz Hoop Dance group on Tribe.net
