Let’s Dance

Family Adventures with the NAC Orchestra

2023-04-29 15:30 2023-04-29 16:30 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Let’s Dance

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/31614

In-person event

Join us in the Canal Lobby at 2:30 PM for a pre-concert Bollywood show by ArohaFest.  Electrifying performers, spectacular choreography, and the NAC Orchestra – You’ll be dancing in the aisles. All over the world people move to music, through movement we tell our stories and express our emotions. Come experience some of the world’s best dance music including ballet, hip-hop, Irish step dance, Latin and Chinese dance, and much, much more. Let’s Dance...

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Southam Hall,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
Sat, April 29, 2023
3:30 PM EDT
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Let's Dance
  • Antonín Dvořák Slavonic Dance, Op. 72, No. 7 in C Major
  • PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake
  • BRUNO MARS Uptown Funk
  • LEROY ANDERSON The Irish Suite, The Irish Washerwoman
  • STEPHEN ROBERTS Bhangra Dance
  • TIESHAN AND YUAN Dance of the Yao People
  • Dmitri Shostakovich Chamber Symphony, op. 110a
  • MADONNA Vogue
  • JAMES POYSER AND DANIEL BARTHOLOMEW-POYSER Three Hip Hop Moments
  • DANIEL BARTHOLOMEW-POYSER Hlonolofatsa Bacchanale
  • Leonard Bernstein West Side Story, Mambo
  • In-person event
  • Bilingual
  • ≈ 60 minutes · No intermission

Join us in the Canal Lobby at 2:30 PM for a pre-concert Bollywood show by ArohaFest. 

Electrifying performers, spectacular choreography, and the NAC Orchestra – You’ll be dancing in the aisles.

All over the world people move to music, through movement we tell our stories and express our emotions. Come experience some of the world’s best dance music including ballet, hip-hop, Irish step dance, Latin and Chinese dance, and much, much more.

Let’s Dance is an interactive multi-disciplinary experience that showcases how different people around the world show expression through dance. Hear your National Arts Centre Orchestra and see the dancers as we move and play our way through some of the world's best dance music.

C’mon, Let’s Dance!

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We hope you will enjoy the giant images on the NACOtron screen as they capture and magnify the magic of these fabulous concerts!

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The NAC Foundation would like to acknowledge the generous support from The Azrieli Foundation, Friends of the NAC Orchestra, The Janice and Earle O’Born Fund for Artistic Excellence, Grant and Alice Burton, and the donors and sponsors of the NAC’s National Youth and Education Trust, the primary resource for youth and education funding at the National Arts Centre.  

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Artists

  • Conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser
  • Featuring NAC Orchestra
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    co-host Annick Sheedy-McLellan
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    Featuring Joy of Dance Centre
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    Choreographer Shameka Blake
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    Choreographer, Broken Dance Chase Constantino
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    Choreographer, MVP Dance Co. Lianne Tammi
  • Ballet, Swan Lake Suite Waltz, Tchaikovsky Emma Bradford-Wilson
  • Ballet, Swan Lake Suite Waltz, Tchaikovsky Sophie St.Jean
  • Irish dance, Dance of the Irish Washerwoman, Anderson Ailish Dunn
  • Irish dance, Dance of the Irish Washerwoman, Anderson Caitlin Cooper
  • Irish dance, Dance of the Irish Washerwoman, Anderson Michelle Pion
  • Indian dance, Ram Tori Maya, Esmail, Reena Jillian Rahim-Parris
  • Indian dance, Ram Tori Maya, Esmail, Reena Shantel Chand
  • Vogue dance, Ciccone, Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser Matthew Cuff
  • Chinese dance, Dance of the Yao People, Ge Ju Yuan Meimei Peng
  • Chinese dance, Dance of the Yao People, Ge Ju Yuan Yuchen Zhang
  • Modern dance, Chamber Symphony Mvt. 2, Shostakovich Claudia Marjanovic
  • Modern dance, Chamber Symphony Mvt. 2, Shostakovich Sydney Keir
  • Hip Hop, Three Hip-Hop Moments, James Poyser and Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser Onija Bennett
  • Afrofusion, Hlolonofatsa, Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser Miranda Liverpool
  • Afrofusion, Hlolonofatsa, Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser Amanda Videla