Kern Dance Alliance - National Dance Day 2023

Kern County has TALENT and our community loves to MOVE and DANCE!! 🎉 💃 🕺
#NationalDanceDay2023 was HIT - what a joy it was to spend our national dance holiday with so many of YOU. 🧡
KDA is especially grateful to all of the instructors, attendees, sponsors, vendors, volunteers, partners, media, parents/guardians/care takers, members, donors, Mayor Karen Goh, Assemblyman Vince Fong, the office of Senator Shannon Grove and DANCERS! Your participation made this the BIGGEST event in KDA history and we are so thankful for your support. 🙏
BRAVO to our celebrity guest teachers that traveled to Bakersfield to help us celebrate:
🎭 Sean Aaron Carmon - Musical Theater
🎹 Dr. Suzanne Knosp - Music for Dance / Piano Accompaniment
🩰 Jim Nowakowsk - Ballet
🕺🏼 Max Pham - Hip Hop
💃🏽 Alex Wong - Contemporary
A special shout out to Mechanics Bank Theater - your team is impeccable and we are so proud to work with you!
An even LOUDER shout out to Mr. Nigel Lythgoe for establishing the 3rd Saturday in September as the official day to celebrate dance across America. We are so grateful for your efforts that continually elevate American dance and for your support of Kern Dance Alliance. ❤️ 🇺🇸
Thank you to Adam David Welch, KDA Filmmaker and Documentarian for our beautiful NDD 2023 recap film!
Just a few of our 2023 highlights:
⏰ 9 hours
👥 35 instructors
💃🏽 42 classes + experiences
🎟 853 paid/free tickets
👣 hundreds of thousands of steps
And, ENDLESS SMILES ‼️
KDA is already planning our next National Dance Day celebration on September 21, 2024. Stay tuned for more information!
👉 Hop on over to www.kerndance.org/DANCEDAY to take our post-event survey and tell us what you want to see in 2024! 🩰
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