Intergenerational Ballroom Dance


The BC Brain Wellness Program will offer a weekly intergenerational ballroom dance class for adults with neurological conditions, care partners, and older adults, led by an interdisciplinary team of dance instructors, community musician, physiotherapist, and UBC students. The first class series will start with Waltz, the classical ballroom dance. Graceful and elegant, the measured flow of the Waltz will sweep you around the dancefloor in timeless style. In the second class series, you will explore a contrasting dance, either the Cha-Cha or Jive. The lively and rhythmic Cha-Cha has its origins in Cuba and is danced to upbeat, syncopated Latin music, and the Jive is an energetic and bouncy dance evolved from the African-American Lindy Hop and swing Jazz music of the 1930s and 40s.