Park Dancing workshops and performances come to Waterbury Center
June 23, 2021 | By Waterbury Roundabout 
Across Roads Center for the Arts launches a new, free, interactive performing arts series this weekend titled Park Dancing, and the community is invited to take part or just attend.
Across Roads Center for the Arts launches a new, free, interactive performing arts series this weekend titled Park Dancing, and the community is invited to take part or just attend.
The first of four dance events will be held Sunday starting at 5 p.m. at the Center Commons Park in Waterbury Center across from the Grange Hall Cultural Center at the intersection of Howard Avenue, Guptil Road and Maple Street.
Sponsored by the Grange Hall Cultural Center, Music Munchkins with Andrea, and Revitalizing Waterbury’s Event & Project Program, the series is open to all ages and abilities.
The events are designed as part workshop, part performance, in a group setting. The event announcement elaborates: “Park Dancing offers unique and fun community-engagement opportunities designed to bring people together in safe, facilitated, play-based and movement-based expressions, making meaningful connections with each other in new and unique ways after a long pandemic isolation.”
Community dance artist Alana Rancourt Phinney will lead the workshop, encouraging and coordinating participants to create movement pieces together, ending in a presentation. Andrea Soberman of Musical Munchkins will “conduct” the orchestra pit. Participants and audience members are encouraged to bring a picnic and the The Udder Guys ice cream trike will be on site, too.
The schedule: 5-6:45 p.m. workshop; ice cream starting at 6 p.m.; performance at 7 p.m.
This first event will have a summer theme. Future dates and themes are Aug. 8 and the Perseid meteor shower, Sept. 22 and the autumnal equinox; Dec. 15 and the winter solstice.
The event is ADA accessible with designated parking, restrooms, and entry at the Grange Hall Cultural Center. For more information, email info.acrossroads@gmail.com or call 802-244-4168.