Past Events

2025

• Dec 9 & 16: Afro Cuban Fundamentals at In Lak’ech, Oakland, Ca.
• Aug 17- Dec 14: Susana Arenas Pedroso teamed up with CubaCaribe as a lead artist teaching youth via Moving Juntos.
• Dec 13: 2nd Annual San Lazaro Celebration, Finnish Hall, Berkeley, CA
• Dec 4: Susana teaches at Stanford University, CA
• Arenas Dance Company performs and Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches at the 2025 San Francisco SBK Congress, Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, Nov 21, 2025.
• Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches a special two hour  Cuban Folkloric Workshop at the Tannery in Santa Cruz, CA. Nov 19, 2025.
• Arenas Dance Company presents Mis Raices Profundas, Dance Mission, SF, CA, Nov 9, 2025.
• Susana Arena Pedroso teaches at the Tannery,  in Santa Cruz, CA Oct 19, 2025.
• Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches a special workshop at Stanford, CA, Oct 16, 2025.
• Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches at Cheznami’s A Taste of Africa: Moving Together, Livermore, Oct 4, 2025
• Dance Mission x Arenas Dance Company present El Dia de Yemaya, Ocean Beach, SF. Sept 7, 2025.
• Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches at CubaCaribe’s Dance All Day, UC Berkeley, Berkeley. Aug 10, 2025.
• Arenas Dance Company performs at La Peña Cultural Center’s Rumba Jam with guest, Yuniscalyvis Ramos, and hosted by Einar Leliebre and Arenas Dance Company at 7pm, La Peña, Berkeley, CA. July 19, 2025.
• July 18-20, 2025: Arenas Dance Company presents workshops with Yunisclayvis Ramos, from Los Muñequitos de Matanzas  in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz, CA.
• July 9-July 20, 2025: POSTPONED. Unfortunately due to political hardships both in the USA and in Cuba, Arenas Dance Company’s  cultural immersion and dance intensive trip to Cuba has been postponed! Find out more info about the trip here.
• June 14, 2025: Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches two FREE special Cuban Folkloric workshops as part of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Healdsburg, CA.
• June 8, 2025: Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches a special Cuban Folkloric workshop at The Tannery in Santa Cruz, CA, 2:30-4:30pm. $30 –  Pay at the door. Live drumming!
• June 1, 2025: Arenas Dance Company performs at La Rumba me Llama: Honrando los Antepasados, 5:30pm doors, 6:30pm show at La Peña Cultural Center Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
• May 25, 2025: Carnaval San Francisco!! Susana Arenas Pedroso and Arenas Dance Company lead a Carnaval San Francsico contingent with CultuCuba. Rehearsals begin Feb 16 if you want to dance with us! Open to all. Rehearsals every Sunday at 11am at Tradicion Peruana Cultural Center in SF.
• May 2, 2025: Arenas Dance Company performs and teaches at UCSC’s STEM Culture Festival, Baskin Engineering Courtyard, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA..
• April 27, 2025: Susana Arenas Pedro’s guest teaches Cuban Folkloric at The Tannery, Santa Cruz. 2:30-4:30pm
• April 20, 2025: Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches Cuban Folkloric at the Tannery, Santa Cruz. 3-5pm
• March 8, 2025:  Arenas Dance Company performs at the Collages de Africaines, presented by Diamano Coura at Oakland Tech High School, Oakland.
• Feb 23, 2025: Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches Cuban Folkloric at the Tannery, Santa Cruz. 3-5pm.
• Feb 16: Arenas Dance Company performs at Concerts for Cuba at The Chapel, 777 Valencia St, SF.
• Feb 15, 2025: Arenas Dance Company performs at the Yemanja Festival, presented by Brasarte at Dance Mission Theater, SF.
• Feb 14, 2025: Susana Arenas Pedroso guest teaches Cuban Folkloric with La Mezcla ‘s Connecting Communities Program. Brava Theater, SF, 10-11:30am.

2024

• Nov 17, 2024: Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches a special Cuban Folkloric workshop at The Tannery in Santa Cruz, CA, 3-5pm. $30 –  Pay at the door. Live drumming!
• Nov 16, 2024: Arenas Dance Company performs at the CubaCaribe Gala, Verdi Club, SF.
• Oct 11-20, 2024: Arenas Dance Company x Duniya Dance and Drum Company x Dance Mission Theater present the world premiere of Raíces et Résistance  at Dance Mission Theater, SF.
• Oct  15, 2024: Special Rumba workshop with Raíces et Résistance  guest artist, Barbaro Ramos, Los Munequitos de Matanzas all-star at Dance Mission Theater, SF.
• Oct 12, 2024, 1-3pm: Special FREE workshop with guest artists of  Raíces et Résistance at Dance Mission Theater, SF, presented in partnership with Dance Mission’s Liberation Academy.
• Sept 22, 2024: Special Cuban Folkloric Workshop  with Susana Arenas Pedroso at the Tannery, Santa Cruz, CA.
• Sept 7, 2024: Arenas Dance Company performs at the African Arts Festival at Yerba Buena Gardens, SF
• July 10-20, 2024: Arenas Dance Company leads a trip to Cuba! Find out more here.
• June 30, 2024: Dance is B(l)ack Festival! Susana Arenas teaches a FREE Cuban & Brazilian class in partnership with Dandha da Hora Sunday, June 30 at 12pm at Dance Mission Theater, SF.
• June 14-15, 2024: Queer Afro Latin Dance Festival in San Jose. Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches Cuban Folkloric Friday, June 14 at 1pm.  Arenas Dance Company performs Saturday, June 15. Find out more.
• May 26, 2024: Susana Arenas Pedroso leads a Carnaval SF contingent with CubaCaribe. Rehearsals begin March 3 if you want to dance with us! Open to all. Rehearsals at Dance Mission Theater in SF.
• May 25, 2024: Susana Arenas Pedros teaches two special workshops at Bandaloop (1601 18th St, Oakland), 12:30-1:55pm Beginner Class, 2:00-3:30pm Advanced class. Sign-up at the door or in advance via email susana.arenas.dance@gmail.com. $20/class or $30/both.
• May 23, 2024: Arenas Dance Company performs at MOCHA (Museum of Chirldren’s Art, Oakland).
• May 18, 2024: Arenas Dance Company performs at the Malcolm X Jazz Festival at San Antonio Park, Oakland at 3pm. Presented by Eastside Arts Alliance.
• April 20, 2024: Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches a special Cuban Folkloric dance workshop at Bandaloop (1601 18th Street, Oakland) at 12:30pm (Beg) and 2pm (Int/Adv). Sign up at the door!
• March 30, 2024: Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches a special Cuban Folkloric dance workshop at Bandaloop (1601 18th Street, Oakland) at 12:30pm (Beg) and 2pm (Int/Adv).
• March 26, 2024: Arenas Dance Company Performance at Preston Coyote Vargas and Kamil Oshundara’s book reading and signing. 6:30pm at Strut (470 Castro St, SF).
• March 9, 2024: Arenas Dance Company performs at  Collage Des Cultures Africanes at the Laney College Odell Johnson Performing Arts Center, Oakland. Presented by Diamano Coura.
• Feb 25, 2024, 10-12pm: Susana Arenas is a guest teacher in Santa Cruz at the Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre. Class is open to all.
• Feb 25, 2024: Arenas Dance Company is performing at the Yemanja Festival presented by Brasarte at the 418 Project, Santa Cruz (6pm).
• Feb 17-18, 2024: Arenas Dance Company is performing at the Yemanja Festival presented by Brasarte at Brasarte, Berkeley (Feb 17, 7pm) and Dance Mission Theater, SF (Feb 18, 6pm).
• Jan 17 & 24, 2024, 6-8pm: Susana Arenas is a guest teacher in Santa Cruz at the Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre. Class is open to all.

2023

• 2023-2024: Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches youth via CubaCaribe’s Moving Juntos 2024!
• Nov 29 and Dec 6, 2023: Susana is teaching a special Cuban Folkloric workshop in Santa Cruz 11/29 and 12/6, 6-8pm at the Santa Cruz Ballet Theater
• Nov 5-12, 2023: Susana Arenas Pedroso teams up with Ramon Ramos Alayo to lead a Cuban dance workshop in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
• Oct 27: 2023: Susana Arenas Pedroso teaches a special Cuban Folkloric workshop with La Mezcla  at Brava Theater, SF at 10am: Connecting Communities with Artists.
• Oct 14, 2023: Arenas Dance Company + Duniya Dance and Drum Company + Dance Mission Theater present Cuba to Guinea, Performance + Workshops at Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, SF
• Oct 7, 2023: A Taste of Africa with Cheza Nami, Workshop + Performance, Bankhead Theater Plaza, Livermore
• Oct 7, 2023: Arenas Dance Company performs at the CubaCaribe Gala, Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street, SF
• July 14-July 28, 2023: Cultural Immersion Trip to Cuba with Susana Arenas Pedroso. Find out more!
• June 10, 2023: Susana Arenas Pedroso finishes her residency at Zaccho with a performance and lecture demo. 6:30pm-8pm at the Bayview Opera House, 4705 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94124.
• May 28, 2023: Carnaval San Francisco. Susana Arenas Pedroso with Arenas Dance Company is choreographing for the Carnaval contingent, CubaCaribe Carnaval. If you would like to participate with us in the largest Bay Area celebration of Caribbean and Latinx art and culture, email us!
• May 16, 2023: Susana Arenas Pedroso guest teaches at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, in collaboration with World Arts West.

• Sundays in April: Arenas Dance Company is teaching FREE Salsa classes through Dance Mission Theater at the SF Ferry Building (South Plaza) outside from 1-2pm!
• April 22, 2023: Arenas Dance Company performs at the opening of Bay Area Dance Week, Yerba Buena Gardens, 750 Howard St, San Francisco, 11am. Free and outdoors!
• April 21, 2023: Arenas Dance Company performs at Park Day School (private school assembly).
• April 1, 2023: Carnaval San Francisco Royalty Competition at KQED, 2601 Mariposa St, SF. Arenas Dance Company is performing at 5pm.
• March 23, 2023: Arenas Dance Company is performing! Homebridge Multicultural Festival in San Francisco.
• March 17, 2023: Salsa n Skate. Arenas Dance Company is performing. 5-8pm at Liberation Park, 7101 Foothill Blvd, Oakland, Ca Presented by Black Cultural Zone in partnership with Salsa by the Lake.  POSTPONED TO DUE TO WEATHER
• Feb 11-12, 2023: Yemanja Festival with Brasarte. Performances are in Berekeley AND in San Francisco! Performance Feb 11 at 8pm at Brasarte, Berkeley. Performance Feb 12 at 7pm at Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco. Tickets and more information found here.
• Feb 3-4, 2023: Moving Together with the Cheza Nami Foundation.  Workshop, Feb 3rd in Cuban Dance, 6-7:30pm. Free!! Performance, Feb 4 at 7:30pm: Essence Show. Tickets $25-$40.  Buy now.  Location for all activities: Dublin Performing Arts and Education Center, 8151 Village Pkwy, Dublin.

2022

• Dec 13-26, 2022. Susana Arenas Pedroso travels to Guinea with Duniya Dance and Drum Company to continue research for “Cuba to Guinea.”
• Dec 11, 2022. Performance and celebration at Bissap Beobab, San Francisco. 6pm.
• Latin Dance Community Giving Potluck, Nov 19, 2022 from 12pm to Sunset. Lake Merritt Amphitheater, Oakland. This is a FREE event and is open to the public. This event is working to raise funds to create “basic needs” bags for the homeless communities all around Oakland. It is donation based! There will be food, a free beginner skill share, performances (including performances by Arenas Dance Company!!) and social dancing!
• Noche Caribeña Gala, Nov 5, 2022 at 6pm. California Ballroom, Oakland. Arenas Dance Company is proud to support long time collaborating partner, CubaCaribe, by performing at their annual gala!
• African Arts Festival, produced by Duniya Dance and Drum Company, Oct 16, 2022. Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, McLaren Park, SF. Free!
• sii agua sí, produced by Dance Mission Theater and FLACC, Oct 1, 2022 from 3-9pm (Arenas Dance Company performs at 7pm). 18th Street between Church and Dolores, SF. Free and outdoors!
• Cultural Immersion Trip to Cuba, hosted by Susana Arenas Pedroso + Arenas Dance Company, July 15-22, 2022 (Havana, Cuba).
• Healdsburg Jazz Festival. Arenas Dance Company and Bobi Céspedes share a bill June 16, 2022 7pm at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival.
• Ada Ara: She Who Is Queen,  the premiere of a new evening-length work by Arenas Dance Company and presented by CubaCaribe, June 10-12, 2022.  Z Space, San Francisco.
• Moving Together, produced by Cheza Nami. Class April 22nd at 6:30pm with Susana Arenas Pedroso.  Performance April 23rd at 8pm by Arenas Dance Company. Both events held at CounterPulse, SF.
• Susana Arenas Pedroso in a teaching residency at Laurel Elementary School, Atherton, CA. April 6, 13, 29, and 27, 2022.
• Arenas Dance Company at the Ferry Building. Arenas Dance Company performs March 6, 2022 at 12:30pm. Leading up to the performance, Arenas Dance Company will give free Salsa Suelta classes every Sunday 1-2pm from February 13th through March 6.
• Yemonja Arts Festival 2022, Arenas Dance Company performs  Feb 19 & 20, 2022, Brasarte, Berkeley.

2021

• Paseo Artistico: Arenas Dance Company performs at 2pm, December 11 at Mission Cultural Center (2898 Mission Street) in SF (Free!)
• Moving Together: Susana Arenas guest teaches Dec 11 at 9am, The Portuguese Hall, Santa Cruz, CA
• Virtual performance with Arenas Dance Company through the Los Gatos Library. Nov 9, 2021 at 5pm via Zoom.
• Performance at Sunset Elementary, Nov 5, 2021, SF.
• Sunday Streets: Pheonix Day, Performance, October 17, 2021.  Valencia Street (@ 17th), San Francisco. Arenas Dace Company performs at 1:20pm!
• Latino Heritage Month Month Celebration, Performance, October 14, 2021.  City Hall, SF.  Also streamed live on Mayor Breed’s YouTube channel.
• SF Wednesdays, Performance, September 28, 2021.  Embarcadero Plaza, San Francisco, 12-2pm. Arenas Dance Company performs two sets on the hour.
• Carnaval 2021, Performance, May 30, 2021. San Francisco.
• Yemanjá Arts Festival 2021, Performance, March 14, 2021. BrasArte, Berkeley.

2020

• Dance Mission Theater’s INCANTATION, Performance, October 29, 2020. San Francisco.
• San Francisco Trolley Dances 2020, Performance, October 17-18, 2020. San Francisco.
• Salud es Poder, Performance, September 6, 2020. San Francisco.
• Carnaval SF, Virtual performance, May 31, 2020. San Francisco.
• Yemanja Festival 2020, Performance, February 2, 2020. Casa de la Cultura, Berkeley.
• Yemanja Festival 2020, Performance, February 1, 2020. Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco.

2019

• Private event, Performance, December 7, 2019. City Hall, San Francisco.
• ¡ADELANTE!, Performance, November 8, 2019, San Francisco War Memorial’s Herbst Theater, San Francisco.
• Private event, Performance, October 27, 2019, San Francisco.
• Noche Caribeña, Performance, October 18, 2019, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Oakland.
• Eso Si, Arenas Dance Company, Show, October 11-13, 2019, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco.
• Eso Si, Arenas Dance Company, Show, October 6, 2019, Oakland.
• African Arts Festival, Performance, September 29, 2019, Jerry Garcia Ampitheater, San Francisco.
• Baile en el Bosque: Dos Rios Camp, August 30 – September 2, 2019, Dos Rios, CA (Mendocino).
• Kids Day with Arenas Dance Company, Workshop, July 9-11, 2019, Stern Grove Festival, San Francisco.
• We Have Ire, AfroCuban Class, May 11, 2019, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
• Oshun, Performance (private), May 5, 2019, Humanist Hall, Oakland.
• 15th Annual Cuba Caribe Festival, Performance, April 12-14, 2019, Brava Theater, San Francisco.
• Arenas Cuban Gala, Performance, March 16, 2019, Ashkenaz, Berkeley.
• Yemonja Festival (Brasarte), Performance, February 9-10, 2019; Brasarte, Berkeley & Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco.

2018

• San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, Performance, July 14-15, 2018, San Francisco Opera House, San Francisco.
• International Women’s Day Benefit, Performance, March, 2018, Ashkenaz, Berkeley.
• MOAD Celebrates Carnaval, Performance, February, 2018, Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco.
• Black History Month, Performance,  February, 2018, Bay Street, Emeryville.
• Paseo Artistico, Performance, February, 2018, Dance Mission, San Francisco.

2017

• Arenas Dance Company Fundraiser, Performance, December, 2017, The Beat, Berkeley.
• Fiesta de las Americas, Performance, September 2017, Mission District, San Francisco, CA.
• Festival Raices, Teaching, July 29 – August 5, 2017. Veracruz, Mexico.
• Cuba Caribe Dance trip, Teaching & Cultural exchange, July 14 – 26, 2017. Cuba.
• Kosmo Camp, Teaching, June 9 – 11, 2017. Santa Cruz, CA.
• CubaCaribe, April 2017, Performance, Brava Theater Center.
• Salsa Demonstration, Teaching, March 11, 2017. Bobi Céspedes with special guest Yohn Santos and Javier Navarrete. Ashkenaz, Berkeley, CA.
• San Francisco Salsa Rueda Festival, Performance, February 16-19, 2017.
• AfroCuban Demonstration Class, Teaching, February 12th, 2017. Berkeley Library, Berkeley, CA.

2016

• Fall Choreographers Showcase, Performance, November, 2016.
• Sisters – Born to drum 10 year anniversary, Performance, July 21-24. 2016, Bort Meadow, CA
• Tannery Word Dance & Cultural Center, Performance, February 21, 2016, Santa Cruz, CA.
• University of Texas, Teaching, February 23-25, 2016, Austin.
• Chico University, Performance, March 21-22, 2016, Chico, CA.

2015

• MACLA for South First Fridays, Performance, November 6, 2015. San Jose, CA.
• Arenas Dance Company, Cultural exchange with Raices Profundas, June 20 – July 5, 2015. Havana, Cuba.
• CubaCaribe Festival, Performance, April 9-25 2015. San Francisco & Oakland.
• Festival Raices, Performance, March 27-April 5, 2015. Veracruz, Mexico.

2014

• Cuba Camp, Teaching, August 29 – September 1, 2014. Dos Rios, California.
• CubaCaribe Festival, Performance, April 17-19 2014. Laney College Theater, Oakland.
• Yemanja Festival, Performance, March 15 2014. Berkeley, CA.
• Sandy Perez and Arenas Dance Company, Performance, February 27, 2014. Yocha Grand Loby, Mondavi Center, UC Davis, CA.

2013

• Las guardians de la Vida, Performance, November 30, 2013. Dance Brigade’s Dance Mission, San Francisco.
• Stanford University, Performance, November 23, 2013. Palo Alto, CA.
• West Wave Dance Festival, Performance, September 16, 2013. Z Space, San Francisco, CA.
• Will Campa Concert at Yoshi’s, Performance, August, 2013. San Francisco, CA.
• The Romance of Old Havana, Performance, July, 2013. Modesto, CA.
• Explorations in Afro-Cuban Dance and Drum, Performance, July 20-27, 2013. Humboldt
• CubaCaribe Festival, Performance, April 12-14, 2013. San Francisco.
• Orishas: From Africa to Cuba, Performance, March 2013. Chico State University, Chico, CA.
• Yemanja Festival, Performance, February 23, 2013. Berkeley, CA.
• SF Salsa Rueda Festival, Performance, February 14, 2013. San Francisco, CA.
• One Billion Rising, Performance, January 26, 2013. San Francisco, CA.

2012

• Voluspa: A Ghost Dance for 2012 at Dance Brigade’s Dance Mission, Performance, December 2012, San Francisco, CA.
• Guardianas de la Vida, Performance, November, 2012.
• Sandy Perez y Su Lade, Performance, September, 2012.
• Stanford Jazz Festival, Performance, July, 2012.
• CubaCaribe Festival, Performance, April, 2012.
• SF Salsa Rueda Festival, Performance, February, 2012.
• Black Choreographers Festival, Performance, February, 2012.
• Yemanja Festival, Performance, February, 2012.