Get Out and Dance 2024 Event Details Released!

Get Out and Dance! is a community dance event featuring free dance workshops, live music, and dance performances! We are incredibly excited to release this year’s line up!

Get Out and Dance Event Details

Saturday July 27 – Show 1

11:00 – 1:00 PM – Visual Art Table

Create your own artwork on water colour paper with the MacLaren Art Centre!

11:30 – 12:00 PM – BollyZumba Workshop

Join Aanchal Nanavati, the founder of Lasya – Poetry of Footsteps Dance School for a BollyZumba workshop where you will be enchanted by the poetry of our footsteps by setting yourself free through dance!

12:00 – 12:30 PM – Live Music – The Power Boys

Enjoy a show by The Power Boys who bring new and classic tunes with tribal beats! Featuring Sil Simone and Joe Adamick!

12:30 – 1:30 – Dance Performance

The dance performance will be hosted by the amazing Shelly-Ann Skinner and feature dance performances by some incredibly talented dance artists including Shelly-Ann Skinner, Brianna Maltais, Alayna Molotkow, Sarah Kennedy, Hayley Ng, Eligh Zimmerman and Paul Moen! Dance styles include contemporary and modern dance, tap dance, Chinese Traditional dance, Afro-Caribbean Fan Dance, and a dash of burlesque!

Saturday July 27 – Show 2

5:00 – 5:30 PM – Body percussion Workshop

Erika MacNeil will teach a “Dance Out Loud” workshop where we will use body percussion and simple, everyday items, to create rhythms to accompany movement sequences built on familiar rhymes and call/answer patterns!

5:30 – 6:00 PM – Live Music – Hungry Manna

Enjoy live music performed by Hungry Manna featuring Brendan Graham, Connor Wilfert, and Corey Marshall!

6:00 – 7:00 – Dance Performance

The dance performance will be hosted by the amazing Shelly-Ann Skinner and feature dance performances by some incredibly talented dance artists including Shelly-Ann Skinner, Brianna Maltais, Alayna Molotkow, Sarah Kennedy, Hayley Ng, Eligh Zimmerman and Paul Moen! Dance styles include contemporary and modern dance, tap dance, Chinese Traditional dance, Afro-Caribbean Fan Dance, and a dash of burlesque!

Sunday July 28 – Show 3

11:00 – 1:00 PM – Visual Art Table

Create your own artwork on water colour paper with the MacLaren Art Centre!

11:30 – 12:00 PM – BellyDance Workshop

Join Nicole Welsh-Bolton to explore some BellyDance basics! In this workshop you will connect your feet and your hips to the fabulous rhythms of BellyDance music!

12:00 – 12:30 PM – Live Music – Kasey Kohring

Enjoy a performance by Kasey Kohring, a Canadian singer-songwriter. Learn more @KaseyKohring.

12:30 – 1:30 – Dance Performance

The dance performance will be hosted by the amazing Shelly-Ann Skinner and feature dance performances by some incredibly talented dance artists including Shelly-Ann Skinner, Brianna Maltais, Alayna Molotkow, Sarah Kennedy, Hayley Ng, Eligh Zimmerman and Paul Moen! Dance styles include contemporary and modern dance, tap dance, Chinese Traditional dance, Afro-Caribbean Fan Dance, and a dash of burlesque!

Event Reminders

  • Get Out and Dance is a pay-what-you-can event. Please consider making a cash contribution.
  • This is an outdoor event – don’t forget to bring a blanket or chair to sit on and get comfy for a great show!
  • Depending on the weather, you may want to bring sunscreen, bug spray, wear layers, etc.
  • This is a community event so don’t forget to invite your friends to Come on out to support local art!

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