Join MAD for a "fiercely noncompetitive,” super-fun dance aerobics class with the LA-based dance fitness project, Pony Sweat. Launched in 2014, Pony Sweat’s high-energy, dance-in-your-bedroom-to-your-favorite-mixtape fitness classes encourage anti-perfectionism and radical self-acceptance through freedom of movement and thought. For this 80s-themed, 30-minute class, participants are invited to dress up in glossy spandex, headbands, and leg warmers inspired by the decade’s classic workout gear.   

Sign up for just the aerobics class or pair your Pony Sweat experience with a visit to our current exhibition, Barbie®: A Cultural Icon. Check out Barbie’s “gym-chic” ensembles and snap a photo of yourself seated in a life-size Barbie Ultra ‘Vette--the ultimate 80s accessory!

Pony Sweat classes are for all ages. Space is limited. 

About Pony Sweat 

Pony Sweat is a "fiercely noncompetitive" dance aerobics project created and directed by Emilia Richeson-Valiente. Pony Sweat creates containers for dance ritual and liberatory fitness routines that center anti-perfectionism, play and imagination, emotive self-expression, healing, and music fandom. Since its inception in 2014, Pony Sweat has held weekly classes in northeast L.A, created artful and heartfelt aerobics videos, toured to metro and rural parts of the U.S, performed at dozens of punk shows and a few music festivals including Coachella and Just Like Heaven, and has devoted its organizing efforts towards social justice movements through its activism leg, Ponies Against Fascists (P.A.F). Emilia has choreographed Pony Sweat routines to music videos for Alice Bag, Scrunchies, Hayley Williams, and Wallows band. Pony Sweat has been a meaningful influence to the mainstream fitness industry’s recent shift toward centering mental health and body-neutrality, however it is and always will be committed to the fringes of that industry. Pony Sweat is inspired by, and dedicates its work to freaks and weirdos always and forever <3.