Inclusion is a founding principle
Community & Access
Cost should never be a barrier to taking part in your own cultural heritage. 300 festival day passes are reserved for people who cannot afford a ticket.
The Latin Fire Health Fund
300 free & referral tickets
Day passes are distributed through the Latin Fire Health Fund programme together with Rotterdam community organisations working with low-income residents, young dancers and students, and with our own festival volunteers.
The same access model is being formalised into a documented, repeatable mechanism used across partner events year-round — not only during the festival weekend — so people referred to us in one season stay connected to the scene in the next.
If you work with an organisation that supports people who would benefit from a place, get in touch and we will walk you through referrals.
Refer someone
Dance for wellbeing
You don't have to compete to belong here
Latin dance is increasingly used as a form of movement therapy and social-connection therapy — for older adults, for people in recovery, and for people managing anxiety, isolation or mobility limitations.
The daytime programme, the community social floors and the low-impact social dance sessions are designed so that people who dance for their wellbeing feel exactly as welcome as elite performers and spectators. Relaxation lounges with bean bags, couches and parasols sit inside every hall, and free water refill stations run across the site.
Who the festival is for
Three audiences, one floor
The Dutch Latin scene
Rotterdam's Caribbean and Latin American communities, the national network of dance schools, and dancers travelling in from all twelve provinces.
Health Fund guests
People referred through the Latin Fire Health Fund and Rotterdam community organisations working with low-income residents, young dancers, students and festival volunteers.
International visitors
A meaningful share of our reach is international, built over nearly three years around the global salsa and bachata scene — visitors who travel to Rotterdam for the weekend.
Outreach materials are produced in Papiamento, Spanish and Dutch — not only English and Dutch — so that the communities whose heritage this festival celebrates are addressed in their own languages.