Ashkenaz Music and Dance
๐ 1317 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, CAAshkenaz on San Pablo Avenue in West Berkeley is a nonprofit music and dance community center that has hosted live world music and dance classes since 1973, offering weekly salsa, bachata, merengue, cumbia, and international folk dance classes for adults at all experience levels alongside live performances by Bay Area and touring musicians most evenings of the week. The drop-in class format means you can join any week without signing up for a series, and the combination of instruction followed by live social dancing the same night makes Ashkenaz one of the best places in the East Bay to actually use what you learn in class the moment the lesson ends. With 114 Yelp reviews and a 92 percent Facebook recommendation rate, Ashkenaz is a genuine institution in Berkeley's cultural life.
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