The year 1995 marked a turning point in the social calendar of the Filipino community in Dubai. It was in this year that Mrs. Gladys Reyes, the diminutive yet highly dynamic newly appointed OWWA Welfare Officer, introduced an alternative wholesome form of entertainment for Filipino expatriates - the increasingly popular ballroom dancing-together with other committed volunteers-cum-dance enthusiasts.

The "Filipino Dance Club-Dubai (FDC-D)" was thus born and the program came to be known as the "Dance Clinic" after proper deliberation.

The FDC-D, in association with the Philippine Embassy, Office of the Labor Attache, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration-Filipino Workers’ Resource Center, runs the basic and advance Dance Clinic thrice every year.

Beginners classes are being conducted for swing, cha-cha, boogie and tango while advance classes teaches different latin dances such as salsa, rhumba, jives, reggae foxtrot and cha cha cha for a period of three months.

Volunteer dance instructors and instructresses are all alumni and bonafide members of the FDC-D. At the end of each clinic, students are required to pass an examination which will lead to a graduation ceremony.

Among the graduates, the five best female and five best male dancers will be selected and paired to compete during the graduation ceremony.

Bonafide members are those who are paying members and who are already adept in ballroom dancing or any other form of dance.