Booking and details
Dates Sat, Jul 6, 2024
Tickets Free; Registrations requested
Duration 9am-11am
Occurs before official opening hours; please check-in at 3rd and East Capitol St SE upon arrival
FREE Folger programming all summer long!
Every other Saturday is all about family fun at the Folger. Folger Family Takeovers this summer will include hands-on activities, dance, poetry, and lots of energy.
Show us your moves as we welcome ZamDance to the Great Hall! ZamDance is a dance fitness program for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The purpose of ZamDance is to empower individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by creating a safe and supportive space where they can explore the art of dance and enhance their physical and emotional well-being.
After the program, stay and enjoy our exhibition halls. Timed entry passes are recommended.
Jacqueline Zamora
Jacqueline Zamora, the founder of Zamdance, resides in Maryland, and for over ten years has worked professionally in a variety of capacities with children with disabilities. Raised in Brooklyn, New York she developed a passion for dance and exercise. As a dancer and certified aerobics instructor, she has worked at the Bally Fitness Gym and the Marriott World Trade Center Gym. She trained in Jazz and African dance at the Broadway Dance Center and the Djoniba African Dance Studio in New York City, performed in England with Julie Tolentino’s show entitled; ” Mestiza, What Beautiful Eyes You Have, ” and collaborated with French choreographer, David Rousseve at the Brooklyn Academy of music. She was also the Director of Choreography/dancer for the Shaun Singh Production Broadway show entitled, RANG, Shades of my Soul.