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✨ Welcome Back! Grand Reopening of Down 2 Dance at Sweets Ballroom ✨
A PARTNER DANCE PLAYGROUND FOR THE SOUL 💫
Join us for our Fourth Sunday Fusion Dance Party — where ALL dance forms are welcome and the community comes alive on the dance floor.
💛 Limited free and donation based tickets available!!!
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Lovingly held at the Sweets Ballroom, a historic 8,000 sq. ft. dance floor ready for the renaissance of partner dance from the 1920's. Imagine 100 years ago the space was filled to the brim with dancers, let's bring that vibe back!
🕒 Schedule:
• 2:45 PM – Strive to Slide in with a Giddy Glide
• 3:00 PM – Warm-up Dance Class with Brigitte Wittmer
• 3:30 PM – Dance Party with DJ Bae Bay & DJ Quintessence 🎶
• 5:30 PM – Live Looping Cello Performance by Abe Finkelstein 🎻
• 5:45 PM – Closing Circle
Live Interactive Painting by Katy Atchison!
Come move, connect, and celebrate the return of D2D in this beautiful space. Bring your friends, your energy, and your love for dance!
Let’s make magic together ✨
Brigitte is a movement guide, dance artist, and somatic leadership coach whose work bridges Brazilian Zouk, contemporary dance, and conscious movement practices.
Her approach — Liquid Leading — guides movers beyond fixed patterns into authentic movement, deep listening, and real-time connection. Whether you've never danced before or have years of partner dance experience, her spaces welcome the full range of who you are.
She works with the body's architecture and nervous system states to help movers access genuine presence rather than learned choreography, supporting dancers in meeting each moment as it actually is.
With over 20 years of experience and a nomadic life between Switzerland, Brazil, and the U.S., her work bridges cultures, movement traditions, and ways of expressing — creating spaces where anyone can find their own way in.
DJ Quintessence is a master of the intentional dance journey crafting diverse and musically nuanced acts. As a dancer herself whose life has been transformed by the practice, Quintessence always plays for the party she wants to be at. Her work often defies genre, weaving through a great many of them throughout the journey in delightfully surprising ways. As she’s a multi-disciplinarian with extremely broad taste, you’ll never get the same experience with DJ Quintessence twice. With emotional depth, Quintessence melds crescendos and climaxes that interplay with rest and reflection. She’ll make you move, make you melt, take you to places beyond words, and leave you wanting more.
She is also a resident DJ in partnership with The Omni Movement, a progressive partner dance studio, located in Oakland. You’ll most commonly find her playing for Fusion Dance, Brazilian Zouk, or West Coast Swing around the Bay Area, though she also holds passion for her unique take on club-style EDM.
A committed DJ and organizer of renegade outdoor dance parties, her heart is in the music. Find her wherever you stream your tunes.
DJ Bae Bay will be bringing beats from the bay and beyond, she is a vibrant creative force with a passion for rhythm and an ear for eclectic sounds. She witch-crafts musical journeys, blending slow and sensual grooves with upbeat, bass-driven beats.
She is a lifelong dancer and the creative force behind Down 2 Dance. With over 20 years of experience as a fusion dancer, she brings a rich tapestry of dance styles including zouk, east and west coast swing, tango, and a variety of solo dances from bellydance to ballet.
From soul-driven, funk-fabulous, infectious hip hop, bassy sexy and sassy vibes to global sounds, each set allows a diversity of styles to explore on the dance floor and. Melt into the magic and get ready for a journey!
Based in the heart of Oakland, DJ Bae Bay is all about bliss, booty shaking, connection and celebrating life, bringing together dancers of all backgrounds. Get ready to experience the soundtrack for shaking what your mama gave you, where every beat invites you to express yourself, connect your partner and the dance floor. Let’s GO!
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