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The Shifting Gears Bike Path Dance Festival is back, and with more exciting ways to enjoy Madison’s vibrant local dance scene. Grab your bike, your scooter, roller skates, or just put on your favorite walking shoes! This year’s festival brings you new interactive activities and new appreciation for our beautiful city. Shifting Gears creates informal and temporary performance spaces in the parks and green spaces along the fantastic bike paths in Madison: Wirth Court Park, McPike Park, and Brittingham Park (by the Butterfly Garden). This Labor Day, festival goers on the bike path can get a little exercise, enjoy the beautiful outdoors, and witness a stunning array of local dance groups.
Past performing groups have included Tania Tandias Flamenco & Spanish Dance, Scratch Dance, Swing State Aerial, Amy Slater, KLJ Movement, DanzTrad, Liz Sexe Dance, Lily Edgar, Karmicflower Dance Company, Breckenridge Highland Dance, Katherine Kramer Projects Tap Dance & Jazz, Breakthrough Dance Company, Sadira Middle Eastern Dance, Madison Chinese Cultural Association, Studio Dansu and Dansu Crew, Wingspan Dance, Madison Ballet, and mini lessons from Tango House of Madison and Capitol Social. This year's artist lineup will be announced in June 2024
In addition to live performance there will be other family-friendly activities including bike decorating, sidewalk chalk, and mini lessons in social and folk dance forms. One social or folk dance form at each of the park locations allows you to learn something new, get your body moving, and celebrate the final days of summer in community.
Audience amenities are back this year thanks to SASYNA: porta potties and a few shade umbrellas. Feel free to bring your own small shade umbrellas, picnics and picnic blankets, sun screen, bug repellent, and any other goodies you might need to enjoy a full day of dance and the outdoors. OR buy one of our Shifting Gears Ready Kits (available in our square store soon) and help support the festival!
Admission is free and tickets are not required. Shifting Gears is partially funded with generous support from Working Draft Beer Co, Ian's Pizza, BCycle, the SASY Neighborhood Association, the Marquette Neighborhood Association, Dane Arts, the Madison Arts Commission, and individual donors. Those interested in making a tax deductible donation may do so at isthmusdancecollective.org/donate.
See the festival in action via our 2021 highlight reel: https://vimeo.com/671217996?fbclid=IwAR0hPfthjRfH6LoZDkTQNpkEFJjNyASZn5RXvVtLLmBpTYa-SyLWkB4aD5w
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Capital City Trail, 215 S Brearly St, Madison, WI 53703, United States,Madison, Wisconsin
