Free dance aficionados rejoice: Bay Area National Dance Week starts this week with a flash mob-esque Union Square party and continues for 10 days in SF and the East, North and South Bays. Lest you think your style preference won’t be available, options for classes and events include “fire dance, ballet, modern, Argentine tango, same-sex tango, classical Indian, jazz, hip hop, hula, Samba, Chinese classical, belly dance, aerial dance, West African, Scottish country and more.”
An outdoor performance by the Mark Foehringer Dance Project|SF at the Golden Gate Park band shell, an open rehearsal of Deborah Slater’s “Men Think They Are Better Than Grass” and international dance film at the SF Conservatory of Dance are all planned. And the numbers aren’t bad either: 29 (years of the annual week of dance celebration), 2,500 (number of participating artists), and 20,000 (number of expected participants based on past years).