Global Rhythms

A Cultural Dance Series with Diandra Jones

Weekly on Thursdays June 5th — July 24th
6: 15 – 7:15 pm

No registration required, but there is a maximum of 40 spaces, first-come, first-serve. Please sign-in upon arrival.

Experience varied styles of dance in this community-focused series.
Each week professional dancer and instructor Diandra Jones, teacher and facilitator with Chicago SummerDance, will highlight a different cultural dance.

  • Latin Dance | June 5th

  • West African | June 12th

  • Caribbean Soca | June 19th

  • Hawaiian Hula | June 26th

  • Afrobeats | July 3rd

  • Indian Bhangra | July 10th

  • Brazilian Samba | July 17th

  • Irish Dance | July 24th

About The Instructor

Diandra Jones began her dance career in Erie with Rince Na Tiarna School of Irish Dance and toured professionally with Trinity Irish Dance Company throughout North America and Europe for five years. She taught and trained with world renowned cultural dance masters at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, the largest folk collective in the US, for seven years before moving to Ghana, West Africa, then eventually the Virgin Islands, where she dedicated herself for ten years to studying Afro-Caribbean traditional and street dance. She now teaches dance in Honolulu, Hawai'i, but relishes her regular returns to her home in Erie, and any opportunity to share the joy of cultural dance with others.