Alabama Dance Theatre

🩰✨ Do you have plans this weekend? ✨🩰

Join us for an amazing evening of dance featuring excerpts from Coppélia 🩰 along with exciting styles such as Contemporary and Bollywood !

Over the past two weeks, our dancers have been training with incredible guest faculty and working hard to grow as artists. This special performance is the culmination of everything they've learned, and we can't wait for them to share it with you! ❤️

Bring the whole family! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Food trucks will be on site, including Funky Forte 🍔 and Kona Ice 🍧, so come hungry and enjoy a wonderful evening of entertainment.

🎁 Best of all, this performance is FREE—our gift back to the City of Montgomery and the community that has supported us for over 40 seasons.

📅 **WHEN:** Saturday & Sunday, June 20 & 21
⏰ **TIME:** 7:30 PM
📍 **WHERE:** Montgomery Riverwalk Amphitheater

We hope you'll join us for a fun-filled evening celebrating the hard work and talent of these amazing dancers! 🌟🩰

Special thank you 👏 to our wonderful sponsors for making this performance possible.

⭐ Paramount Wealth Management
⭐ Cumulus
⭐ The S. Adam Schloss Foundation
⭐ Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama
⭐ The Vance Law Firm
⭐ WSFA 12 News
⭐ The National Endowment for the Arts
⭐ Alabama State Council on the Arts
⭐ City of Montgomery Department of Cultural Affairs

Surprise! We're bringing you a super fun Bollywood fusion class for all ages and levels! Mr. Mani's class is always a favorite at Regional Dance America Festivals.
ADT is bringing him to Montgomery for our Summer Intensive, and we're offering everyone a chance to try his class while he's in town!

Save your spot on the dance floor:
https://guestfacultyclass.cheddarup.com
$20 for anyone in the community!
Free for parents or siblings of ADT's 2026 Seminar participants!

Mr. Yaganamurthy is a choreographer, teacher, performer and collaborator of Indian fusion dance. A native of India he began his study of dance at the age of 5 learning traditional South Indian dance (Kuchipudi). He danced competitively throughout India and by 19, receiving numerous awards he made appearances on India television. A highlight of his career while in India was to work with the actors from the movie RRR which one the Academy Award for best foreign film in 2023.

As a choreographer he incorporates traditional Indian dance on students of classical ballet, contemporary, and jazz. His style is emotional and technically challenging. When choreographing for a Bollywood piece for Western dancers the dancers learn how to bring dramatic intention to a demanding exuberant style.

Mr. Yaganmurthy moved to the US in 2016 to pursue his love of dance and broaden his exposure to the wonderful dance traditions in the US. He helped introduce Indian dance to dance studios and companies throughout the Northeast. Mr. Yaganmurthy is currently on the staff of MYB studio in Madison, NJ teaching and choreographing Contemporary, Bollywood fusion and Theatre dance. He continues to bring his culture and dance style to Western audiences.
Photo by Abigail Photos.

Alabama Dance Theatre Celebrating our 40th year, Alabama Dance Theatre serves our community through excellence in dance education and performance, offering year-round training in Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Hip-Hop, Contemporary and more for ages 3 through pre-professional.

🌟 2026 Alabama Dance Theatre Summer Intensive Faculty Announcement. 🌟

Join us June 8–21 for the Alabama Dance Theatre Summer Intensive, two exciting weeks of training, creativity, and inspiration with an outstanding faculty of professional artists and educators. Dancers will challenge themselves in a variety of styles, refine their technique, expand their performance quality, and gain invaluable stage experience.
This year's faculty includes:

✨ Roger VanFleteren – Ballet
✨ Magaly Suarez – Ballet
✨ Manikanta Yaganamurthy – Bollywood
✨ Wysdem Caesar – Hip-Hop
✨ Taylor Jordan – Contemporary & Ballet
✨ Shannon McGaughey – Contemporary & Ballet

As a culmination of the intensive, participants will perform in our annual Stars on the Riverfront performance, showcasing everything they've learned throughout the two-week experience.

Whether you're looking to strengthen your technique, explore new movement styles, or take your dancing to the next level, this is an opportunity you won't want to miss.

📅 June 8–21
📍 Alabama Dance Theatre
🩰 Register today at alabamadancetheatre.org

Our hearts are so full after an incredible week of Tutus & Tiaras! 💕👑🩰

We are so proud of each and every little dancer who joined us. This week was filled with twirls, giggles, creativity, imagination, and so many sweet moments. Watching these little ones dance, create, make new friends, and simply enjoy being kids was such a joy.

Thank you to all of our wonderful families for sharing your children with us. We loved every minute of this magical week and hope the memories made here will stay with them long after the last curtsy.

Until next time, keep dancing, dreaming, and believing in a little bit of magic. ✨