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- Workshops will cover a global array of dance styles including the energetic, upbeat Irish Step dance style.
The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is inviting dancers of all abilities to celebrate National Dance Day with a free event chock-full of dance workshops and classes.
Slated to run 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 20, the event in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and the Segerstrom Center for Arts in Costa Mesa, California, will feature workshops covering a global array of dance styles at every experience level, according to a Kravis Center news release.
“We are honored to once again welcome everyone as the official South Florida host of National Dance Day,” Tracy C. Butler, senior director of education for the Kravis said in a prepared statement. “Dancers and movers of all ages and abilities are invited to join us in the Kravis Center’s Cohen Pavilion for an entire day of free events, led by our dance professionals.
“Dancing not only promotes better physical and mental health but is also a way to connect us together as a community. National Dance Day is a perfect opportunity to try something new, or to rediscover the joy dancing brings to your life.”
The sessions begin 11:30 a.m. with a warm up led by Lori Ramirez, middle school dance, acting and musical theater teacher at The Benjamin School. Ramirez spent 12 years with the Radio City Rockettes.
Attendees are then free to join the workshops that will be hosted throughout the Kravis Center.
Those looking to live out their Broadway fantasies can head to the Khoury Family Dance Rehearsal Hall at 12:15 p.m. for a theater dance workshop led by Herman Payne, who appeared on the Broadway rendition of “9 to 5” and on the international tour of “Fosse” and the “West Side Story.”
Families can join the “All Together Dance” workshop at 12:15 p.m., which will focus on fostering connections between body and soul, creativity and community, with local dancer Kori Epps.
Workshops for experienced dancers include the 1:15 p.m. advanced ballet workshop led by Steven Caras, a dance photographer and a former ballet dancer, at the Khoury Family Dane Rehearsal Hall.
A hip-hop workshop is scheduled for 12:15 p.m. and a salsa workshop at 1:15.
Adventurous attendees can check out the day’s international dance-based classes, like the Irish Step workshop slated for 1:15 p.m. or the Polynesian hula dance workshop at 2:15 p.m.
At the end of the day, guests are encouraged to come together at 3:15 p.m. in the Gimelstob Ballroom to learn and take part in the official national dance day routine. The session will be led by Tiffany Maher, dancer, choreographer and educator who was the Season 9 runner-up on the Fox TV show “So You Think You Can Dance.”
For more information and to register, visit www.kravis.org/national-dance-day-2025/.
Diego Diaz Lasa is a journalist at the Palm Beach Daily News, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at [email protected].
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