With support from the California Arts Council, Calidanza will create a viable and vibrant dance program that offers free classes to students for 10 months offering new/current students the opportunity to receive professional instruction in Mexican folk dance. The project will also help fund a productions in Sacramento presented by Calidanza and a two week dance intensive for area youth in 2020. The project will bring professional dance to the underserved Latino community of Sacramento.
Calidanza Mexican Dance Company is a multi-faucet community based organization that serves the artistic and cultural needs of the Latino community of Sacramento, CA. Our organization offers classes, workshops, public performances, in school arts programming and educational shows in and around the Sacramento community. The purpose of this project will be to offer the underserved Latino population of Sacramento a viable outlet to learn, observe, participate or appreciate Latino/Mexican arts programming in their own communities as well as in public venues open to the public.