Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, Feb. 23. I’m Vanessa Franko, an assistant editor on the audience engagement team with a focus on arts and entertainment ...

This post was updated May 12 at 8:05 p.m. For UCLA’s Chinese Cultural Dance Club, celebrating Chinese culture is a team effort. The club, founded in 2000, has brought traditional Chinese dance to the ...

For 50 years, Wranglers Square Dance Club members have been doing the promenade, do si do and other dance moves in Rancho Bernardo. The current 67 members — about half are RB residents — and other ...

Nolan Neikirk was skeptical when they were first taken to a square dancing class in downtown Sacramento. “I was like, ‘Square dancing? Like what you do in fourth grade?’” Neikirk said. “But (former my ...

This post was updated Feb. 24 at 9:20 p.m. UCLA’s pioneer Line Dancing club builds community to the beat of its own drum. Offering bimonthly meetings that are drop-in, the Line Dancing club draws a ...