One of the highlights for us during our downtown LA adventure on Saturday was the dancing. At the Music Center we ran across five dance floors where people were learning various kinds of dance. For a 20 minute lesson, you could pay $1 and join a variety of folk learning a short (quite short) routine.
I was taken with this sweet little girl who was dancing with her dad in some kind of Ballet Folklorico. See the cute napkin in hand used as a handkerchief?
Here are some hip hoppers.
This group was learning Bomba.
We timed our visit to coincide with the beginning of the Grand Park Block Party. At 4:30 we saw the Fanfare for Grand Park which included a short musical piece with three brass players standing in the water (very shallow) of the fountain. This was followed by a dance by these blue people to several pieces of live music. We were just in time to get good seats on the ground right up front so that I could snap these shots.
Because we had been going since 8:30 a.m., we left downtown after this show and did not stay for the rest of the block party, although there seemed to be plenty of people who did stick around.
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