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Built on Stilts Dance Festival 2025 - Oak Bluffs, MA
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Built on Stilts Dance Festival 2025

Arts and Entertainment

July 12, 2025

From: Built on Stilts Dance Festival

The Built on Stilts Dance Festival is comprised of many short performances by members of the Vineyard community and beyond. Shows might also include live music, storytelling, theater, comedy, circus acts, drag, martial arts, fitness demos and more! All shows are appropriate for all ages and free to the public.

The festival's mission is to provide a forum for anyone and everyone to share their work with the Vineyard community and its myriad visitors, and to make these performances accessible to audiences for free. Built on Stilts aims to provide a life-affirming public exchange of art and energy by presenting a wide array of dance and other art forms from people representing diverse cultures, ages, backgrounds and levels of training.

Dance and performance is in all of us, for all of us!

The festival is a creative playground for children and adults, from beginners to professionals, representing diverse stylistic backgrounds. It has showcased ballet, modern, Hip Hop, jazz, tap, ballroom, breakdance, belly dance, line dancing, African dance, martial arts, comedy, movement theater, hula-hooping, circus arts, mime, improvisation, fitness, live music, storytelling, spoken word and, of course, a bit of stilting. Each performance opens with an improvisational drum circle open to all willing musicians. The rhythms bouncing down Circuit Avenue draw in passersby, who flood the gates of the historic Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs, which has housed the festival since its first season.

Order of pieces in each show subject to change.

FREE - No reservations or tickets necessary!

Schedule:

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Work by:

Grace Hall & Andy Jacobs 

Hannah Burbidge 

Karam Belly Dance 

Jesse Jason

Hannah Burbidge 

The Yard Interns, facilitated by Claire Page 

Bad Dog David Mintz 

Jordan Muhammad 

Abby Bender/Camp Hippocampus 

Daniela Lynch

Morgan Brown Sanborn/Northeast Arts Alliance

Maggie Sabella-Orlando 

Jordan Muhammad

Laura Sargent Hall 
 
Friday, August 8, 2025

Work by:

Stiltshop 

Jordan Muhammad 

The Pine Tree Road Boppers

The Yard Interns, facilitated by Claire Page 

Dawson & Reid 

Karam Belly Dance  

Cass Tunick, Abby Bender, Katie Federowicz 

Northeast Arts Alliance  

Betty Bootleg

Roberta Kirn

Maggie Sabella-Orlando 

Lucinda Kirk 

Stephanie Lawson Muhammad & Jordan Muhammad

Hannah Burbidge

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Work by:

Libby Stackhouse 

Advancedshop 

Scott Crawford

Stephanie Lawson Muhammad & Jordan Muhammad

MV Zumba Squad

Stephanie Simpson & Amanda Kohl 

Abby Bender & Camp Hippocampus 

Karam Belly Dance

Hannah Burbidge

Dawson & Reid

Andy Jacobs 

Cass Tunick, Abby Bender, Katie Federowicz

Jordan Muhammad

Alise Eve & Island Hip Hop

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Work by:

Christina & Sabrina Reppert 

Stiltshop 

Sadie, Nina, and  Kenzie 

Laura Sargent Hall

Charmian Wells 

Hannah Burbidge 

Batya Diamond

Wondertwins

Libby Stackhouse

Scott Crawford

Lizzy Keery/Porch Dance Collective

Roberta Kirn

Grace Hall & Andy Jacobs

MV Zumba Squad
 
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Work by:

Libby Stackhouse

Advancedshop 

Sauna Richards 

Christina & Sabrina Reppert 

Bad Dog David Mintz 

Sadie, Nina, and Kenzie

Stephanie Lawson-Muhammad

Andy Jacobs

Roberta Kirn

Lucy Grinnan

Laura Sargent Hall

Katia George

Wondertwins

Monday, August 18, 2025

Work by:

Jesse Jason 

Karam Belly Dance

Hannah Burbidge

Katia George

Jane Loutzenhiser

Lucinda Kirk

Libby Stackhouse

Abby Bender & Camp Hippocampus

Daniela Lynch 

Sauna Richards 

Roberta Kirn 

Stephanie Lawson-Muhammad

Lucy Grinnan

Betty Bootleg

Date: 
August 7-18, 2025

Time:
Doors open at 7:30pm. Shows start at 8pm

Location:
Union Chapel, 
55 Narragansett Ave., 
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557.

Cost:
Free

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