Places to Dance
Weekly Bay Area Venues
The Bay Area has dance of dance venues! Below is a list of venues that the Berkeley community frequents. If you want to see ALL of the venues in the Bay Area, check out the Lindylist site.
Sunday
- Lindy in the Park
- 11am-2pm
- Golden Gate Park, near the De Young Museum on JFK Drive.
San Francisco, CA - http://lindyinthepark.com
Monday
- Shades of Blues
- 830pm-1230am
- The Polish Club, 3040 22nd St at Shotwell, San Francisco CA
- http://www.sfshadesofblues.com/
Tuesday
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Beat the Blues
- The Beat:, 2560 9th St. Berkeley, CA
- http://beyondblues.com/eb/
- Verdi Club (Tuesday Night Jump!)
- San Francisco, CA
- Live band, full bar
- http://www.verdiclub.net/
Wednesday
- Berkeley Dancer's Den
- Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
- 8:00-10:45, lessons 6:00-8:00
- http://berkeleydancersden.com/
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Cat's Corner
- (at the Savanna Jazz Club)
2937 Mission St., San Francisco, CA - http://www.catscornersf.com/
- (at the Savanna Jazz Club)
- Wednesday Night Hop
- Mountain View, CA
- http://www.wednesdaynighthop.com/
- On the Air
- Baltic @ 135 Park Place, Point Richmond
- Free Music, Restaurant/Bar
- Band plays 1st and 3rd Wednesday/month
- http://ontheair.org/
Thursday
- 9:20 Special
- 2460 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA
- www.920special.com
Friday
- Friday Night Blues
- Studio Gracia, 19 Heron Street, San Francisco
- 10:00-12:30, lessons 8:00-10:00
- http://beyondblues.com/fnb/
Saturday
- Lindy on Sproul
- Upper Sproul, UC Berkeley Campus
- Free Lesson 11:45-12:15PM, DJ'ed social dancing until 2pm
- http://lindyonsproul.com
- The Rent Party
- 351 Shotwell, San Francisco
- 9:30-12:30, lessons 8:30-9:30
- http://therentparty.com/
- The Rhythm Lounge
- Redwood City, CA
- Lessons 5:30pm & 7pm-9pm, Dancing 9pm-Midnight on select Saturdays
- http://www.redwoodcityswing.com/rhythmlounge.php
Berkeley Groups
- Lindy on Sproul
- Social Dance group that offers free social dancing and classes
- Located at UC Berkeley
- Movement Dance Group
- Performance Dance group in swing, hip hop, and jazz
- Located at UC Berkeley
- http://ucbmovement.com
- Berkeley Lindybombers
- A fringe guerrilla subsidiary of UC Berkeley's Lindy on Sproul.
Crashing improvised swing venues since 2010. - Located at UC Berkeley
- A fringe guerrilla subsidiary of UC Berkeley's Lindy on Sproul.
- Blues at Berkeley
- Social Blues Dance group that offers free social dancing and classes
- Located at UC Berkeley
- http://groupspaces.com/BluesatBerkeley
- University of California Ballroom Dance
- Ballroom Dance group
- Located at UC Berkeley
- http://ucbd.org
- Salsa Dance at Cal
- Salsa club that runs SalsaCal on Mondays, and free dance lessons Tuesdays 8-10p
- Located at UC Berkeley
- http://salsadanceatcal.blogspot.com/
- Cal Tango
- Argentine Tango club that runs a decal on Tuesdays and offers a pratica on Fridays
- Located at UC Berkeley
- http://www.caltango.org/