Amy Allen, (right) a dancer in the acclaimed touring production of the Broadway hit Wicked, teaches a Jazz & Musical Theater Master Class at Santa Monica College on Thursday, March 25, 2010.

Kumu Hula Master (master Hula artist) Keali'i Ceballos teaches traditional and contemporary Hula Dance to Santa Monica College students during a masters dance class at SMC on Thursday, March 4, 2010.

Fifth grade students from John Muir Elementary, Webster Elementary and Will Rogers Learning Community compete in the Ballroom MADNESS Elementary School Team Match at Santa Monica High School's Barnum Hall on Friday, December 11, 2009. They competed in the meringue, foxtrot, rumba, tango, swing and waltz. Webster Elementary came in first place, Will Rogers Learning Community was second place and John Muir Elementary came in third place. Ballroom MADNESS school dance was a  ten-week program.

Lala belly dances at Santa Monica Beach during the Kick-off for the "World March for Peace and Nonviolence" on Friday, October 2, 2009. World March for Peace and Nonviolence begins its 93-day journey across the planet. That date also marks the “International Day of Non-Violence,” established by the UN in 2007 to recognize the importance of nonviolence as a way of life and as a tactic of social change and the 140th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. World March for Peace celebrates the spirit of nonviolence, diversity, and world peace. The World March for Peace and Nonviolence is an unprecedented social mobilization which aims to create consciousness of the dangerous global situation in which we are living -- a situation marked by the heightened probability of nuclear conflict, a renewed arms race, and the violent military occupation of foreign territories. To avoid a future nuclear catastrophe we must surpass violence today, demanding: nuclear disarmament at a global level; the immediate withdrawal of invading troops from occupied territories; the progressive and proportional reduction of conventional weapons; the signing of non-aggression treaties between countries; the renunciation by governments of the use of war as a means to resolve conflicts. The World March was first proposed by the Humanist Movement through one of its affiliated organizations, World Without Wars. Since its launch, the number of countries participating has more than doubled, and the March has received the endorsement of thousands of people, pacifist and nonviolence groups, a variety of educational, political, and religious institutions, and renowned figures from the worlds of science, arts, and politics. It is developing into the largest mobilization for peace in history.

(above) Jackie Lopez, AKA Miss Funk and her partner Breeze Lee teach a Hip Hop Master Class at Santa Monica College on Thursday, September 17, 2009.

Juan Alcala, AKA 'The Dollhouse Dude' dances  to the sounds of Masanga Marimba while holding a  hand puppet at  Santa Monica Farmers Market on Sunday, June 31, 2009. Alcala has been promoting his message that its everyone's human right to own a home. Alcala is a graduate from Cal State and has a Bachelors degree in Bilingual education.