This event has been canceled.

This year, National Dance Institute will bring together over 200 dancers to celebrate the legendary performers and musicians, who merged gospel and rhythm & blues to create SOUL MUSIC, a genre of music that inspired a generation and became the soundtrack of a social revolution. Through dance and live music, we will experience the raw emotion and personal testimony of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Sam Cooke.  We will feel the liberating energy of James Brown, Otis Redding, and The Supremes. We will embrace the soul-stirring melodies of Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, and Donny Hathaway, and groove down the soul train line to Earth, Wind and Fire, Prince, and Stevie Wonder. Together, we will lift our voices to create community, camaraderie, and to recognize and embrace our shared humanity. From its roots in the black church to its freshest interpretations in funk, disco and pop, soul music shows us that no matter where we are, or what our circumstances, we always have the power to look within and find freedom.