NDI Live! June 1 - June 5

June 1 - June 5

Join our FREE online dance classes every day this week! All videos will be available on NDI's Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube channel after the video has aired. Here is the schedule for June 1 through June 5, 2020:

NDI Dance! with Tracy Straus (All ages) 4 pm EDT • Monday, June 1 on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube NDI Artistic Associate Tracy Straus leads an immersive NDI Dance class inspired by the incredible artists, musicians, and performers from the 1940s! Through music and dance, Tracy highlights the swinging energetic sounds of big bands and the brilliance of Fred Astaire, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dali, and more. During the 1940s, dance was a way to come together and rebuild. In the spirit of community, Tracy invites you to dance with high-energy and your own creativity!

NDI DREAM Project (All ages and all abilities) 4 pm EDT • Tuesday, June 2 on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube To view with closed captioning, please watch on YouTube. NDI’s DREAM Project (Dancers Realize Excellence through Arts and Movement) is going live! This series of four 30 minute classes focuses on introducing the NDI style of dance class to children with a wide variety of abilities. NDI teaching artists, our Board Certified Pediatric Physical Therapist partner, and children with and without disabilities from the NDI DREAM community provide strategies for adapting movement for different levels of abilities. Steps are broken down and choreography builds throughout the series culminating in a mini-performance.  Join us and share this class with your community for a dance experience that is one of a kind! Families and children of all ages and with a wide variety of abilities are encouraged to participate!

Warm-Up Wednesdays! (All ages) 8 am EDT • Wednesday, June 3 on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube The sun is shining from Arthur Fredric’s driveway! Arthur’s NDI warmup will lift your spirits, raise your heart beat, and make you smile. Join us for a joyful 4 minutes guaranteed to get your day going in the right direction!

NDI Dance! with Calia Marshall and Andrea Davey-Gislason (All ages) 4 pm EDT • Wednesday, June 3 on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube Come discover the young inventors of today and uncover your own inner dance inventor! Led by NDI Teaching Artists Calia Marshall and Andrea Davey-Gislason, you will learn an energetic dance and groove to original music by NDI Musician Todd Keller. This is the final class of the series so Calia and Andrea will help you put all the choreography together!

NDI Dance! (All ages) 4 pm EDT • Thursday, June 4 on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube Join NDI teaching artists for a fun participatory NDI Dance class! Like a typical NDI class, there is a warm-up and an opportunity to learn choreography. Experience NDI‘s award-winning program from your home!

NDI Jams! (All ages) 4 pm EDT • Friday, June 5 on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube NDI Jams will feature performances by Greg Stamper and Priscilla Owens, two amazing vocal artists who have sung in many NDI Event of the Year performances. They are an integral part of the NDI vocal sound. We hope you enjoy the show!

Tune in for updated class schedules on our website, nationaldance.org and on NDI's social media channels through Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Check out the previous weeks' videos on NDI's Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube channel! Come dance with us!