Art Chowder January | February, Issue 19 | Page 66

Vytal Movement Dance Company will be previewing a section of a new dance about energy, performed to percussion music. Phase Collaborative Dance Project will highlight contemporary and funk fusion dances that will tug at the heartstrings and make you “wanna get down.” Dance Time Theater Company performs contemporary, adagio, neo-classical ballet, and jazz dances that are a visual cornucopia to delight the artistic eye. Tap Grandmas is a nonprofit group of talented tap dancers that love to perform for charity fundraisers, schools, and retirement homes. After retiring from teaching, Joan Hamilton and Dennie Crowe enlisted a group of women that began dancing for fun and exercise. Tap Grandmas motto: To Dance Is To Live! Gail’s School of Dance , founded in 1980 in the Spokane Valley, will feature dancers aged three to seventy, sharing their love of dance as they perform for you! Ballet Arts Academy Senior Company will be on stage for the first time this year. DanceFest is thrilled to have a performance by the Spokane- based organization of flamenco, 66 ART CHOWDER MAGAZINE