A dramatic black-and-white website for a Cuban dance studio. High-contrast photography, an animated class schedule, and event booking — built to match the intensity of what happens on the floor.
Overview
A professional Cuban dance school and performance company. The brand needed a website that communicated movement, precision, and passion — the same qualities that define the school's teaching. A corporate template would have been an insult to the craft.
Black and white photography shot in sharp contrast, large display type at near-cinematic scale, and animated transitions that echo the quality of the movement create a digital presence that is unmistakably theirs. The class schedule, level descriptions, and booking system all live within the same visual language — never breaking the brand's atmosphere.
Live weekly schedule with level filtering — beginners, intermediate, and professional classes at a glance.
Social events, workshops, and performance nights bookable directly — seats fill faster when the process is frictionless.
Performance archive and class gallery — the best recruitment tool a dance school has.
Animated transitions and kinetic typography that feel like the dance itself — never decorative for its own sake.
Technical
Custom vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The monochrome aesthetic is maintained at the CSS level — even embedded media is treated with CSS filters to maintain brand coherence. Animations are GPU-accelerated, using transform and opacity exclusively to avoid layout recalculation.
The event calendar is built on a simple JSON data structure, letting the studio manager update the schedule from a spreadsheet export. Mobile-first — most students book on their phones on the way to class. Lighthouse: 91+.