10/01/2026
Last dance 2026!
Summer of Zumba Love 2026 — Season 7
AMOR ESTÁ AQUÍ: The Story of Nine Chapters
What began as a summer of free fitness became something much bigger.
For nine chapters, Pier 62 became a place where people could arrive exactly as they were carrying joy, grief, culture, uncertainty, memories, confidence, shyness, and sometimes simply curiosity and find room for themselves on the dance floor.
Every chapter asked love to speak in a different language.
1. The Unity Cup — El Amor Está Aquí
We began with the simplest truth: unity is created one step at a time. The circle became our first symbol. There were no winners or losers. Everybody who stepped onto the floor was already part of the familia. That first night established what the whole season would become: not just people dancing beside each other, but people choosing to belong to something together.
2. Pride in Motion — The Rainbow Connection
Love became belonging. The message was clear: you are free to be yourself, and you matter here. The rainbow wasn’t decoration; it represented what happens when people are allowed to show up fully as themselves. “You Matter Here” became more than a phrase it became something people could feel on the dance floor.
3. Freedom Rocks — Freedom Lives Within
Love became freedom and healing. We learned that freedom is not the absence of struggle; it is what can exist when love gives us enough room to breathe, move, heal, and become ourselves. The cracks were not things to hide. They became part of the story.
4. Asian Pop Love Fest — The Wave Is Coming
Love crossed borders. K-Pop, J-Pop, C-Pop and Asian pop culture became a doorway into gratitude, cultural appreciation, hospitality, and connection. We discovered that representation creates invitation and invitation creates participation. The truth of the chapter became: Love has no borders, only connection.
5. ¡AZÚCAR! Latin Dance Celebration
Love became roots. We danced with orgullo. We remembered that our roots are not only the places we came from but the people whose love continues through us. Music, migration, family, timbales, memories of Papa Pedro, and Island Dreams all came together under one truth: Joy carries our roots forward.
6. Afro Carnaval Takeover — Jump, Whine & Shine
Love became liberation through expression. People danced through grief. Someone who said she was not going to dance was handed a rag and eventually laughed, “I have a rag, so I better dance!” A participant originally from Africa heard music that made her feel seen. The body was allowed to be free. Liberation Lives in Expression.
7. Hip Hop Explosion — Pop Queens & Hip Hop Dreams
Love became the communal dance floor. Songs people recognized made them run toward the music. Passersby became participants. Meli stepped out of the role of leader and danced inside the circle. Nahla, once shy, stepped onto the stage during Crown in My Own Way. The lesson wasn’t about nostalgia. It was about recognition becoming invitation. The Beat Brought Us Together.
8. SHOWTIME! — The Greatest Showtunes: A Dance Musical Experience
The dance floor became the stage, and love became the courage to be seen. People cried during Seasons of Love. Pedro’s photograph returned to the floor during Remember Me, and someone quietly said, “I remember when Pedro used to dance.” Savina Sparks performed Take Your Bow and ended by having everyone face each other and bow not to an audience, but to one another. I see you. You see me. We shared this stage.
THIS IS OUR MOMENT.
9. THE LAST DANCE — 70s Disco Celebration
And finally, love became celebration.Close to 200 people came to dance.
ZJ Reeni returned triumphantly to lead the Amor Está Aquí choreography she created with the team, bringing the season’s anthem back to the floor for the finale.
When Last Dance played, the floor turned into a Soul Train line. People paired up and danced through the middle while everybody cheered them on.
There was no stage anymore.
No performer and audience.
Just familia.
There were people discovering WMTG for the first time and already feeling sad that they had arrived on the final night. Two young men visiting from Houston were fascinated by the music, the presentation, and especially by the way complete strangers were laughing and dancing together as though everybody already knew each other.
And maybe that is the clearest description of what WMTG created this season.
We didn’t all know each other.
But for a little while, we danced like we did.
And that is why The Last Dance could never really be about ending.
The season began by asking:
¿Dónde está el amor?
For nine chapters, hundreds of people answered.
It was in the circle.
It was in the rainbow.
It was in the cracks.
It crossed oceans.
It lived in our roots.
It liberated the body.
It brought us together through the beat.
It gave us permission to be seen.
And in the end, it danced straight through a Soul Train line under the Seattle sky.
Amor estaba aquí.
Amor está aquí.
Amor siempre estará aquí.
Years from now, people may not remember every song we played or every chapter title.
A hundred years from now, they may not know any of our names.
But for one extraordinary Season 7, a group of people came to Pier 62 and filled that waterfront with music, culture, grief, laughter, ridiculousness, tears, freedom, memory, and love.
And perhaps somehow, the dance floor will remember.
ONE LOVE • ONE BEAT • ONE FAMILIA
It was never about perfection.
It was always about connection.
❤️ AMOR ESTÁ AQUÍ. 🪩
