Boogaloo Class at the Dance Parade

Join me at Teaching Stage A @ 215 PM for Boogaloo, but join in starting at 1PM for a fanastic event!

An interactive multi-stage dance festival online!

Dance Parade is pleased to invite dancers and dance lovers to join our 15th Annual Dance Parade and Festival online Saturday May 22nd from 1 to 4pm Eastern (New York) Time. The event will be a global, interactive event using thousands of Zoom cameras on performance, teaching and party stages. For the best experience, join us with an "internetable" device that has a camera.

Suggested donations to participate: $20; free for artists or low-income. There's something for everyone!

To mark the one year anniversary of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic, Dance Parade opens FREE Registration March 13th, 2021 when we will be pleased to invite dancers and dance lovers to join our 15th Annual Dance Parade and Festival online Saturday May 22nd from 1 to 4pm Eastern (New York) Time.

The event will be a global, interactive event using thousands of Zoom cameras on performance, teaching and party stages. For the best experience, join us with an "internetable" device that has a camera.

This past year has been really hard on all of us, including the tens of thousands of dancers we serve. As a service to the community, we've put together a dynamic event with lots of content so that there's something for everyone! This year we celebrate the theme “Dance Brings Us Together” with dancers from around the world.

***Ribbon Cutting Ceremony: Kicking off the family-friendly event is a ceremony officiated by Emcee Jungle to pay homage to healthcare workers and to introduce dance celebrity Grand Marshals Lisa Lisa, H.T. Chen & Dian Dong, and Virginia Johnson. They will cut the ribbon, unleashing dance styles from ballet to breakdance, tango to tap, and Japanese to Mexican!

Dare To Dance Challenge: See the winner of the video challenge to house-bound choreographers to create a new work during this period of isolation and social distancing. Thanks to Nancy Steele of STEELE DANCE, three winners will receive cash prizes and will have their one-minute videos premiered at the festival.

Home Stage: Latina Pop Music Legend Lisa Lisa will open the stage with a live appearance and medley of her lifelong work. Bring your best moves to the participatory stage. Our scouts go through 1,000 cameras and spotlight those with great energy, costumes, and artistry. Join a dance battle or vote for your favorite as contestants from around the world vie for cash prizes. See the winners of the Dare to Dance Video contest that challenged choreographers to connect to their dancers remotely during this period of isolation and social distancing.

Grandstand Performance Stage: Included are Zoom performances of the live parade in past years, with interviews that give an inside glimpse behind dozens of movement cultures...Samba, Hip-Hop, Chinese, African, Bolivian, Mexican, and more. Videos include interviews and performances by Alvin Ailey, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Heidi Latsky Dance, Buglisi Dance Theatre, and more.

Dance Film: This year Dance Parade will present portions of its one-hour TV special, The Resilience of Dance Through the Pandemic, due out in June on NYC Life.

Teaching Stage: Take a free dance lesson from Dance Parade's best teachers. Learn Waacking, Broadway moves, Indian Bhangra, Salsa, Ballroom, Caribbean, African, and more. Ask our teaching artists whatever question you like either live on camera of in the chat.

We hope you enjoy!

Register at https://danceparade.org/register/