Dance Classes

The Parks and Recreation Department has a wide range of special programs that focus on the arts. The section currently offers approximately 165 dance, music, art and tumbling classes.

Dances classes for youth include beginning Jazz and Hip Hop, Tap, Ballet, Afro-Brazilian, Mexican folkloric and Spanish Flamenco. For youngsters with other interests, the department also offers beginning and intermediate tumbling, beginning percussion, guitar, keyboard, drawing, painting and pottery classes.

Dance classes for adults include beginning Spanish Flamenco, Mexican Folklorico and Afro-Brazilian, offered at the Berta Almaguer Dance Studio.

For more information, call 207-3132, 207-3133, or 207-3134.

The second fall session runs from Oct. 20, 2008, through December 20, 2008. You may register with the instructor on the first day of the class. The cost is $30. You may enroll in a second class during the same session for $15. siblings or other family members living in the same household may sign up for $25.

more information, call 207-3132, 207-3133, or 207-3134.

Fall II Session 2008 Schedule (Microsoft Excel Document)

Fall II Session 2008 Schedule (PDF Document)

COST: $30.00 per Session. Money Order or Checks Only, Payable to City of San Antonio, No temporary checks. Each Class meets once a week, a minimum of eight times during the fall session. No refunds or prorates.

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TO REGISTER: Most locations have multiple levels of instruction, open only by teacher promotion, therefore you must register with the teacher or Special Program’s staff member.
· The classes listed are subject to cancellation when enrollment minimums are not reached.
· CALL (210) 207-3134 for more information.

Dance Classes
207-3134

The Parks and Recreation Department offers a wide range of dance classes for all ages and interests. They include ballet, tap, hip hop, Mexican Folkloric, Flamenco, tap, African, and Modern Dance.

In addition to instructional classes, participants perform at various events as special entertainment locally and, in some instances, nationally.

The program has specialty show groups as instructed and choreographed by our teachers, including Alamotion and Fandango.

Fandango Dance Troupe

Fandango offers young dancers the opportunity to continue their study of Spanish Flamenco and Mexican Folklorico dance traditions. The dancers audition for the troupe and range in age from 11 to 19. Auditions are held annually in the fall. The troupe has performed in Germany and Mexico as well as the United States. They perform regularly during the summer at the Arneson River Theatre.

Alamotion Dance Troupe

This troupe specializes in tap, jazz, hip hop and ballet. The troupe also performs during the summer months at the Arneson River Theater, with local talent providing vocals and acting as emcees. The show features group, ensembles and solos. Auditions are held annually, usually in the fall, and are open to youth 11 - 19 years of age.

For more information on our dance program, call 207-3134.

BRAVO! brings home national award
ˇBravo! An Evening of Song and Dance took annual summer show took center stage at the recent National Recreation and Park Association’s national conference in Indianapolis when it received the Dorothy Mullen Arts and Humanities Award.
Named after recreation and parks pioneer Dorothy Mullen, the award honors the most innovative and effective arts and humanities programs across the U.S., and aims to inspire others who may consider developing similar programs in their area. The awards are based on the size of the population served by the program and are judged on the basis of content, innovation, contribution to the community, and the expansion of interest in the arts and humanities.
In order to win the national award, the program first had to win the Texas Park and Recreation Society (TRAPS) state Arts and Humanities award and then the Southwest Region of NRPA Arts & Humanity Award.
BRAVO! has a long tradition of presenting great song and dance featuring the department’s two dance troupes, Fandango and Alamotion, on stage each summer at the Arneson River Theater. The dance troupes perform Mexican Folkloric, Spanish Flamenco, tap, jazz, hip hop and lyrical dance. The show also features emcee Elizabeth Ruiz and guest artists including: Mariachis Campanas de America and a variety of local celebrities.
“Cultural programming has been the hallmark of the San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department for over 70 years,” says Special Programs Supervisor Mona Lisa Montgomery. BRAVO! fills the need for public performance opportunities and experiences for young dancers who want to take their dancing to a pre-professional level and it enhances the city’s tourism efforts by giving visitors opportunities to experience what is best about San Antonio and the Parks and Recreation department: traditions, diversity and talent.”
The Fandango and Alamotion Dance Troupes are composed of young dancers who participate in an audition every August that is open to all dancers as well as those who participate in the City of San Antonio’s Parks and Recreation sponsored dance programs. Both troupes perform throughout the year representing the Parks and Recreation Department at various events citywide.
The Parks and Recreation Department’s Special Programs section offers dance classes as well as music, visual arts and more at four community centers; the Berta Almaguer Dance Studio, 138 S. Josephine Tobin Drive; Our Lady of the Lake University International Folk Culture Center, 100 S.W. 24th Street and Sam Ash, 25 N.E. Loop 410 throughout the year.