National Dance Day

The REACH

Get ready to dance! This year’s National Dance Day celebration champions dance as a starting point for community engagement. Join us for FREE classes, performances, and more engaging activities.

Please bring a chair and a reusable water bottle. This will help ensure your comfort throughout the event while supporting our efforts to reduce waste.

This is a open captioned performance.

Sat. Sep. 20, 2025

  • Sat. Sep. 20, 2025 12p.m.

  • Genre

    Dance

  • Accessible Seating

    • Captioned

  • Presenting Sponsor

    Bank of America

Kennedy Center National Dance Day Class

Photo by Jati Lindsay

Program

Get ready for another exciting National Dance Day celebration! Join us for FREE classes, performances, and more engaging activities for all ages.

This year’s event champions dance as a starting point for community engagement. For DMV natives and those who now call the area home, embracing the local dance culture ushers in a sense of place and belonging. National Dance Day is the perfect time to discover this culture and reveal how art and dance experiences can be a source of empowerment, respite, and rejuvenation. Let dance be the key to opening conversations about how communities can come together and support one another.

Schedule

National Dance Day Afternoon Performances and Classes

Emcee · KyleOnTheMic with DJ100

12:10–12:17 p.m.
Bella Belly Dance
12:20–12:50 p.m.
DC Rawhides
12:53–1:13 p.m.
chitra.MOVES
1:16–1:45 p.m.
Powwow Zumba with Angela and Louisa
1:50–2:20 p.m.
Corazon Folklorico Dance Company
2:23–2:53 p.m.
Carpathia Folk Dance Ensemble
2:55–3:15 p.m.
The Lion’s Den
3:17–3:43 p.m.
National Dance Day Dance
3:46–4:06 p.m.
Project ChArma
4:08–4:38 p.m.
Furia Flamenca
4:40–5 p.m.
Motion X Dance Company
5:03–5:32 p.m.
District Irish Dance
5:35–5:55 p.m.
Rhythmaya Dance

Millenium Stage Evening Performances

6–6:15 p.m.
Rhythmaya Dance
6:15–6:45 p.m.
Mihko-piyêsiw (Red Thunderbird)
6:45–7 p.m.
Dance Party

Artists

National Dance Day Tutorial 2025

Here is your official 2025 National Dance Day routine, choreographed by Dancing with the Stars Pro Emma Slater. Learn the routine and translate it for any ability, age, or skill level by making it your own and putting your own spin on it.

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Kennedy Center Staff Celebrate National Dance Day

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  • National Dance Day With Kennedy Center Staff - 2019

  • National Dance Day With Kennedy Center Staff - 2018

  • National Dance Day With Kennedy Center Staff - 2017

  • National Dance Day With Kennedy Center Staff - 2016

Help Dance Thrive

Support the Kennedy Center's Dance program when you designate your Membership to Ballet and Dance.

Sponsors

William J. Caldwell and Michele Toth

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