Dance with us!
No auditions, experience, or partners required
Interested in PLBD? We accept new members at the start of every semester. Please fill out this form to join our mailing list and we will keep you updated! If you have any questions about PLBD, please contact us at pennlatinballroom@gmail.com
Summer 2025 updates:
- Bohdan Aleksieiev & Michelle Yiu‑Aleksieieva, the reigning U.S. Amateur International Standard Vice‑Champions, will be teaching both levels of this Sunday’s Standard lessons on 6/15! Follow them on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bohdan.michelle/
- Weekly summer lessons will take place on Wednesday evenings and Sunday late afternoons in Annenberg Dance Studio!
- See detailed information about the summer lessons here
- PLBD summer lessons assume that you have had some previous exposure to ballroom dance. If you are brand new to ballroom dance, we encourage you to join our newcomer cohort in Fall 2025!
Penn Latin and Ballroom Dance (PLBD) is a student organization at the University of Pennsylvania. We teach and promote Ballroom and Latin dancing to Penn students and other Penn affiliates. No partner needed. We welcome beginners! In fact, most people currently on the team had no prior dance experience.
In addition to providing weekly DanceSport lessons and occasional social dance lessons, we compete at collegiate competitions, host balls, and put together dance performances throughout the year.
If you don’t want to compete and just want to take dance lessons – that’s perfectly fine too! Please check out our FAQ or contact us if you still have more questions. (See also: who’s responsible for all this?!)