Community Dance workshop Friday in north Seattle

One of Susan Wickett-Ford's dance classes

Community Art Workshop this Friday, May 8: Community Dance 

This week's art focus will be "Community Dance" taught by Susan Wickett-Ford. Community Dance focuses on Folk Dance because it has the ability to make a "village" out of any group. 

When asked about why she will be facilitating a community art workshop, Wickett-Ford said, "Silver Kite’s Friday workshops are a perfect fit for family dancing. And folk dance is the perfect kind of dance."

Wickett-Ford has spent years figuring out which types of dances kids and adults alike enjoy the most. Participants of the workshops will be clicking sticks, ducking under bridges, sliding, and circling, and making up moves of their own.

"These days few people have experienced this age-old dance form, and the beautiful music that’s evolved with it, so I'm pleased to have this opportunity to introduce an all-ages group to folk dance," Wickett-Ford said. "It’s the choreography of community."

Community Dance is part of a month long series of Friday Art Workshops hosted by Silver Kite Community Arts. Each week community members of all ages have the opportunity to explore a new art form.

Workshops are from 4 to 6 pm each Friday in May and June at George Center for Community, 2212 NE 125th Street, Seattle.

There is a suggested $10 entry for each workshop.