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Dance Anywhere

by Claudia Bauer

It’s called dance anywhere, but “dance everywhere” is more like it. For this everybody-dance-now event — which goes down today, March 18 — people around the world get up and shake it at the same moment, uniting across time zones, continents, and political boundaries to create a global guerilla dance-in. Over the past six years, schools streets, bridges, subway platforms, art galleries, and parks have doubled as dance floors for participants from Slovenia to Namibia, and across all fifty states. Locally, you can freeform it by standing up and getting your groove on wherever you are or, if you’d prefer to dance somewhere, by joining an ensemble at the Berkeley Art Museum (2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley), the Oakland Museum (1000 Oak St., Oakland), or Frank Ogawa Plaza (14th St. near Broadway, Oakland). The only officially choreographed element is the starting time. Noon, free.”