DANCE (FREE)STYLE

Swing it, move it, shake it, make it. However you feel like dancing, here are a few classes that’ll teach you how to bust a move without busting the bank.

Tap Fever Studios
This La Jolla-based dance studio is offering a FREE Hot Hula class on Tuesday, August 31 at 9am. This Tahitian cardio class will get your hips shaking and quads working overtime, no Hawaiian vacation needed. On Monday, August 30 at 2pm, bring your gramps and granny over for the FREE Silver Sweat. This fitness class is for seniors ages 55 and better and uses chairs and light hand weights.

Or check out Tap Fever Studios’ $5 Dollar Days, when all dance classes are only $5 each during the last week of session. (Thanks to Deanna Chew of Whisk Upon a Star for cluing me in on these classes!)

Tango del Rey
This tango club/music venue in Pacific Beach teaches you sexy steps on the dancefloor with their FREE tango classes Monday thru Thursday at 6pm.

In Cahoots
This country western dance bar holds FREE line-dance lessons every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. with open dancing all night.

Rumba Entertainment
Let Rumba Entertainment teach you spicy moves for the dancefloor during any of their FREE salsa and barchata lessons at these locations:

Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays – FREE salsa and barchata at the La Jolla Marriott.  Classes start at 8:30pm, but arrive before 8pm to avoid paying a $10 cover charge. (No cover charge on Wednesdays)

Sundays – FREE salsa and barchata at the Ocean House in Carlsbad.  Classes start at 8:30pm, but arrive before 8pm to avoid paying a $10 cover charge.

Mondays -  FREE salsa and barchata at the Prospect Bar & Grill in La Jolla.  Classes start at 9pm; no cover.

Pattie Wells Dancetime Center
Bring sexy back and check out one of this studio’s FREE Argentine tango classes on Fridays 9-10pm, followed by a milonga (tango dance party) hosted by Milonga Sin Nombre.