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A play-based dance fitness class that incorporates Zumba, dance games, folk songs, freestyle, vamping, prancing, and much more at the Downtown Oakland Senior Center in the Veteran’s Memorial Building on Lake Merritt, at 200 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610. 11:00am Tuesdays
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Sweat Yourself Silly!As KRS10, I teach live and online dance classes that give you permission to express yourself through state-of-the-art and age-old exercise. Dancing with both freedom and structure, you’ll build mental, emotional, and physical health and resilience while losing yourself in music! Fun First, Fitness Follows.My dance students have treated and healed from conditions from depression to neuropathy to ADHD, losing weight and building strength and confidence through a practice of happiness. My teaching style is Zumba-based so it’s easy to follow, even though it challenges your mind. I first became a licensed ZIN in 2011 and enjoy nothing more than a room full of kids, teens, adults, or seniors who are ready to play! We Even Do The Snoopy Dance!What’s the “Literary Twist?” I teach dance because it gets me out from behind my computer! I’m a writer, so I can’t help but share interesting, weird things about the songs I teach and the moves I use. I often engage with current events with my playlist, so we get a chance to work out our feelings as well. I got certified in Positive Psychology by The Flourishing Center, so I’m practiced at expanding positive emotion. |
![]() “My dancing queens (young and sweet, only seven-ty)…always laughed at the gut punch at the end of Mambo Italiano” —from Ten Days, Ten Pounds |
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Previous/Upcoming Offerings:Let’s let our inner showgirls out to play in the next few months with a dance workout filled with shimmies, shakes, and sparkle fingers to music from Broadway, Cabaret, Burlesque and old movies. Coy, outrageous, or just plain silly, the simple to sophisticated choreographies will polish your personal shine. Whether you’ve danced professionally or just in front of your mirror, this is a chance to kick up your feet (literally) in a playful, not performative, hour-long dance workout, taught by a fabulously aging beauty queen who has danced on stage with fruit on her head. For all ages, genders, and dance experience. ~ Live Classes Online (during lockdowns) ~Free classes with love offerings. Click images for playlist. ![]() Morning Thunder (Zoom) Rouse your body and spirit with a ten-song Bandaloop dance wakeup workout with KRS-10. ![]() Pink Martini Lunch (Zoom) No lounging around in this fun mid-day dance party! Shake off your week with vampy faves and return to work with a smile on your face. ![]() Hair By Zumba (Live on Zoom + on demand) Straight-up Latin Faves from Zumba days. Also available on-demand. ![]() Dances With Dave (on Zoom) Dave chose a husband-safe playlist and overcame all the obstacles (shyness, extra feet, and mirroring) to release his inner rock star. Bring a partner.
(Playlist Includes Weezer, Devo and Bruce!) Sometimes I even read Jitterbug Perfume! (From whence the name.) ~ DANCE PLAYSHOPS ~Contact KRS-10 about a dance playshop for your community, place of work, or organization! 90-minute Dance workouts on a theme; learn something new between moments of sweet sweet sweat! Themes include: “Ten Decades of Dance” | “Around the World in 80 Minutes” | “I Am Woman” | “Devil’s Music” | “Salute to America” | “Black Music Matters” | “Showgirl Shenanigans” Every Man, Woman and Child – a short workshop on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, culminating with a reading of the 30 Articles set in an interactive West African Hilife dance
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