Dance Your Hearts Out at These Places in Beijing!

The other day we dropped a list of some of the city's best dance schools, but what if you're looking for something more? Below, we've listed some of the best places to learn a variety of dancing styles from Latin to hip-hop, where you can try dance that's a little different.

Sazon Cuban Dance School

You have definitely met dancers from Sazon before if you're a regular at the Beijingers' events. The dancers from Sazon are top notch, and their carefree and energetic vibe make all their classes feel like a dance party.

Sazon Cuban Dance School, founded in 2016, features a variety of classes including Ladies' styling, salsa, cha cha, Son, and bachata. Whether you are a novice salsa dancer, or a seasoned pro, you can find your desired classes to best suit your dancing skills.

You don't have to worry about not keeping up with the movements: the Cuban instructors will slow down and even give you a shout out during class or offer you personalized feedback so that you know where you can improve during the class.

Sazon Cuban Dance School 萨颂古巴舞蹈学校
Dongdaqiao Road No.8 SOHO Shangdu B1, Chaoyang District
朝阳区东大桥路SOHO尚都西塔B1-128号

Vivienne's Jazzercise classes

A roundup of dance classes wouldn't be complete without a mention of Vivienne, Beijing's only certified Jazzercise instructor. She's taken her unique blend of dance-cardio and jazz moves and transformed them into classes that will get your calories burning. 

Vivienne offers on-demand classes at different places. To book a lesson with Vivienne, add her by WeChat: VivienneTseng-Rush.

Candy's Belly Dance Class

If you wish to learn the art of belly dance, definitely check out Candy's lessons. Not only is Candy a world champion of Ahlan Wa Sahlan- the biggest Egyptian dance festival in the world- she's also got some great moves and a unique teaching style that will help you progress from a beginner to a competent performer.

Candy's lessons are fun and easy to follow. Plus, you'll also be able to hone your flexibility and limb coordination, therefore improving your overall posture.

To take a lesson with Candy, scan the code below and add her on WeChat.

Genius Dance Lab

Genius Dance Lab offers a variety of dancing lessons including jazz, hip hop dance, and breakdancing. Their specialty, though, is locking, a style of a funk dance closely associated with hip hop music. Their lessons offer more of a dance-your-heart-out kind of vibe where everyone feels invited to move along with the instructors. If you attend their lessons regularly, it won't take too long before you will be able to master the fundamentals and impress your friends on the dance floor.

Genius Dance Lab
Beijing Chaoyang Building 11, West Area, Jianwai SOHOF B1 1117, Chaoyang District
朝阳区恒惠路建外SOHO 西区11号楼B1117

TIANAI dance

For those who want to get a glimpse of a traditional Chinese cultural art form, why not try Chinese classical dance?

TIANAI dance specializes in teaching movements and postures borrowed from Chinese folk dance, traditional Chinese opera, and martial arts. Compared with other dances, Chinese dances focus more on the breath and the instructor will teach you the controlled expression of strength and power to be able to master this dance.

TIANAI dance
Building 18, West Area, Jianwai SOHO 1205, Chaoyang District
朝阳区建外soho西区18号楼1205

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Images: Dianping, Courtesy of  Sazon, Uni You, Vivienne,Vic

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Giovanni Martini wrote:

[quote=BauL certainly, peduncle may have a botanicill meaning, in fact it does. nindtegeaee amakndfjajfd . //whecggd   which are musimillfkajdfj more fragant

 

we really have to get a Monty Python show goin hear?

Now don't get distressed Beijinger folk,   just because Dancing requires addressing peduncular thoughts.  Now this is Ped Uncle li yer, to which I suggest you quizzen Gio, 

However I wish to stress the word peduncular, which has manifest, manifold and many meanings , whiche youe maye alle perusee, kindlye ande softleye.  Ba! e

I'm sorry. Earlier, I read perpendicular. Most every family gots a ped uncle. And he ain't welcome at no dances. Mr. Spragg, my junior high science teacher, tried to tell us peduncle means one-flowered or some such. He wanted to take us on field trips to go see such. Personally I thought it was just another "grooming" ploy on his part. Which is a loathsome practice, unless it's carried on by Muslims imported to the U.K., in which case it's a crime to talk about with an air of disapproval.

Thank you for writing all day long here.  Good 

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WaqarOptimist wrote:
BauLuo wrote:
Giovanni Martini wrote:

[quote=BauL certainly, peduncle may have a botanicill meaning, in fact it does. nindtegeaee amakndfjajfd . //whecggd which are musimillfkajdfj more fragant

we really have to get a Monty Python show goin hear?

Now don't get distressed Beijinger folk, just because Dancing requires addressing peduncular thoughts. Now this is Ped Uncle li yer, to which I suggest you quizzen Gio,

However I wish to stress the word peduncular, which has manifest, manifold and many meanings , whiche youe maye alle perusee, kindlye ande softleye. Ba! e

I'm sorry. Earlier, I read perpendicular. Most every family gots a ped uncle. And he ain't welcome at no dances. Mr. Spragg, my junior high science teacher, tried to tell us peduncle means one-flowered or some such. He wanted to take us on field trips to go see such. Personally I thought it was just another "grooming" ploy on his part. Which is a loathsome practice, unless it's carried on by Muslims imported to the U.K., in which case it's a crime to talk about with an air of disapproval.

Thank you for writing all day long here. *good*

[/quote] So when the Beijingmener gonna start spoolin out me some cashola, eh? Gimme some greenbacks, y'know? Ya need editors? Buddy, I can editor like aint't nobody editored before. Ya, want yer phrasal verbs all correct? Lickity split and hoppity hop I can get 'em done. Also, I can usually enter the code above on the first attempt. (I said usually)

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

WaqarOptimist wrote:
BauLuo wrote:
Giovanni Martini wrote:

[quote=BauL certainly, peduncle may have a botanicill meaning, in fact it does. nindtegeaee amakndfjajfd . //whecggd which are musimillfkajdfj more fragant

we really have to get a Monty Python show goin hear?

Now don't get distressed Beijinger folk, just because Dancing requires addressing peduncular thoughts. Now this is Ped Uncle li yer, to which I suggest you quizzen Gio,

However I wish to stress the word peduncular, which has manifest, manifold and many meanings , whiche youe maye alle perusee, kindlye ande softleye. Ba! e

I'm sorry. Earlier, I read perpendicular. Most every family gots a ped uncle. And he ain't welcome at no dances. Mr. Spragg, my junior high science teacher, tried to tell us peduncle means one-flowered or some such. He wanted to take us on field trips to go see such. Personally I thought it was just another "grooming" ploy on his part. Which is a loathsome practice, unless it's carried on by Muslims imported to the U.K., in which case it's a crime to talk about with an air of disapproval.

Thank you for writing all day long here. *good*

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BauLuo wrote:

Giovanni Martini wrote:

[quote=BauL certainly, peduncle may have a botanicill meaning, in fact it does. nindtegeaee amakndfjajfd . //whecggd   which are musimillfkajdfj more fragant

 

we really have to get a Monty Python show goin hear?

Now don't get distressed Beijinger folk,   just because Dancing requires addressing peduncular thoughts.  Now this is Ped Uncle li yer, to which I suggest you quizzen Gio, 

However I wish to stress the word peduncular, which has manifest, manifold and many meanings , whiche youe maye alle perusee, kindlye ande softleye.  Ba! e

I'm sorry. Earlier, I read perpendicular. Most every family gots a ped uncle. And he ain't welcome at no dances. Mr. Spragg, my junior high science teacher, tried to tell us peduncle means one-flowered or some such. He wanted to take us on field trips to go see such. Personally I thought it was just another "grooming" ploy on his part. Which is a loathsome practice, unless it's carried on by Muslims imported to the U.K., in which case it's a crime to talk about with an air of disapproval.

[/quote]

Thank you for writing all day long here.  Good 

~~“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~~.

Giovanni Martini wrote:

[quote=BauL certainly, peduncle may have a botanicill meaning, in fact it does. nindtegeaee amakndfjajfd . //whecggd which are musimillfkajdfj more fragant

we really have to get a Monty Python show goin hear?

Now don't get distressed Beijinger folk, just because Dancing requires addressing peduncular thoughts. Now this is Ped Uncle li yer, to which I suggest you quizzen Gio,

However I wish to stress the word peduncular, which has manifest, manifold and many meanings , whiche youe maye alle perusee, kindlye ande softleye. Ba! e

I'm sorry. Earlier, I read perpendicular. Most every family gots a ped uncle. And he ain't welcome at no dances. Mr. Spragg, my junior high science teacher, tried to tell us peduncle means one-flowered or some such. He wanted to take us on field trips to go see such. Personally I thought it was just another "grooming" ploy on his part. Which is a loathsome practice, unless it's carried on by Muslims imported to the U.K., in which case it's a crime to talk about with an air of disapproval.

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I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:
BauLuo wrote:

Now don't get distressed Beijinger folk, just because Dancing requires addressing peduncular thoughts. Now this is Ped Uncle li yer, to which I suggest you quizzen Gio,

However I wish to stress the word peduncular, which has manifest, manifold and many meanings , whiche youe maye alle perusee, kindlye ande softleye. Ba! e

I consorted with gem-you-whine Southern Babtists whilst I was Ozarking away at Fort Lost-in-the-Woods, Missouri. They literally and inerrantly proved to me how Skripsure forbids sex while standing up. Why? Because it might lead to dancing, and that's sinning. In fact, having read this, you should go wash your eyes with soap and water.

Well, I niver did me any Ozarking meself, bein Canadjun an all, but I did me level best shovellling chicken shit outa Leo the Greek's 'guys chicken barn and kicking up heels with Kallia his daughter. (now don't be tellin Leo)

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Now don't get distressed Beijinger folk, just because Dancing requires addressing peduncular thoughts. Now this is Ped Uncle li yer, to which I suggest you quizzen Gio,

However I wish to stress the word peduncular, which has manifest, manifold and many meanings , whiche youe maye alle perusee, kindlye ande softleye. Ba! e

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:
BauLuo wrote:
Well they erased a coupla my squibs, don't know why, don't really care, but I will see what sorta gibberish I can come up with tonight. Lets talk about cysts, particularly them of the sebacious variety. . Cysts and dancing., ba! Now if you do like dancing, which I particularly do, but usually in the washroom and skipping about upon my non-cyst infested feet, you may none-the-less be inquisitve about cyst like situations, I an I can write seven more paragrphs. usiing subjencitve verbs ( I missed the semi colon there.... sorry} Now `cyst' sounds phonetically not too dissimilar to Sis. So, speaking quickly, I may say I have a Sis on my heel, I am unable to waltz. Which would put my Sis at a loss, when, with bemusement and chagrin the elder ladies of the village looked nosewise down! Ba!Now, lets return to the main topic, which are cysts of the sebacious quality. I had a big moother funker growin on me neck, and I just sliced the mother - franker (razor blade use employed) opened and spilled the guts of it into the sink. I squished it open and squeezed it like Tom Daley. Did I say Tom Dooley? My mamaries keep playin tricks on me. So fattish I can now lick them. This ain't good. This has in no was diminished my dancing ability, and I look forward to conversing with dead parrots. Ba! (And buying Cheese) Ba!
In a former life in Gallia Cisalpina, Assyrian assassains took a razor to my betwinned sisses Cecellia and Cilia. Were it not for the big stones on Sisyphus all had ended dolefully. Meself was in those times a sissyfied suck-spittle before Sula succored my spirits.

Is "dolefully" used correctly there? My Finnish factotum Faas says when he was on Universal Basic Income back home in Hell's Sink-y his life was dole-ful. Every thirty days, regular as you wish your ol' lady was. But then Faas has had a varied life. Mebbe you heard of him. Faas Ediifelton.

Seriously man, we gotta set up a Monty Pythonisd gig. What elst ya gonna fdo withzx hyer lifsxkkskse, question mark.?? ba! Does anyone really beliive Jol;en11 Buydung runs the ,,,

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Giovanni Martini wrote:

The other day we dropped a list of some of the city's best dance schools, but what if you're looking for something more?(unquote)

If you're looking for "something more," read the story on Li Yifeng BEFORE you make a move. If you don't, trouble'll be on you like pox on a baloney-pony's pet monkey.

Aiya, I thought Gio was on my `Kwiky sexxy sex sex hotline' but now I am disabused. I have my shoulders slummped. My legs are crossed. Gissellee said she could be there quickly. I tap my toe.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

Well they erased a coupla my squibs, don't know why, don't really care, but I will see what sorta gibberish I can come up with tonight.

Lets talk about cysts, particularly them of the sebacious variety. . Cysts and dancing., ba! Now if you do like dancing, which I particularly do, but usually in the washroom and skipping about upon my non-cyst infested feet, you may none-the-less be inquisitve about cyst like situations, I an I can write seven more paragrphs. usiing subjencitve verbs ( I missed the semi colon there.... sorry}

Now `cyst' sounds phonetically not too dissimilar to Sis. So, speaking quickly, I may say I have a Sis on my heel, I am unable to waltz. Which would put my Sis at a loss, when, with bemusement and chagrin the elder ladies of the village looked nosewise down! Ba!

Now, lets return to the main topic, which are cysts of the sebacious quality.

I had a big moother funker growin on me neck, and I just sliced the mother - franker (razor blade use employed) opened and spilled the guts of it into the sink. I squished it open and squeezed it like Tom Daley. Did I say Tom Dooley? My mamaries keep playin tricks on me. So fattish I can now lick them. This ain't good.

This has in no was diminished my dancing ability, and I look forward to conversing with dead parrots. Ba! (And buying Cheese) Ba!

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.