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Four chances to see it. Pick yours. Fri 7:30 PM. Sat 1 PM & 5 PM. Sun 1 PM. Link in bio. #OnceUponAHoliday #sidewaysdance #20yearsofsideways #roswellga"

Two weeks. Build your own bouquet at our flower cart, then take your picture inside the story. Tickets: link in bio. #OnceUponAHoliday #sidewaysdance #20yearsofsideways #roswellga

Dancers, teachers, studio families: come see what 10 professional dancers do with a stage & updated lighting. Nov 20-22. Link in bio. #OnceUponAHoliday #sidewaysdance #20yearsofsideways #roswellga

Things are heating up…. or should I say cooling down in the studio as we prepare for the holiday season! Once Upon A Holiday is coming to Mimms Museum of Technology and Art! Nov 20 at 7:30pm Nov 21 at 1:00pm and 5:00pm Nov 22 at 1:00pm Ticket link in bio 🔗

Halloween is over. You're officially allowed. Once Upon A Holiday, Nov 20-22. Tickets: link in bio. #OnceUponAHoliday #sidewaysdance #20yearsofsideways #roswellga

We had some special guests at rehearsal today! #halloween2026 #halloweencostume #sidewaysseason20

Storyboard land, a flower cart & a Saturday night party. Nov 20-22 at Mimms Museum. Tickets: link in bio 💙 @@mimms_museum @fultonarts #OnceUponAHoliday #sidewaysdance #20yearsofsideways #roswellga

Get ready for the Holiday Season with Sideways! Once Upon A Holiday is coming to Mimms Museum of Technology and Art! Nov 20 at 7:30pm Nov 21 at 1:00pm and 5:00pm Nov 22 at 1:00pm Ticket link in Bio 🔗

Twisted Tales is tomorrow. Have you gotten your tickets yet? Sunday 10/18 at 1, 3 & 5 PM, Alpharetta Arts Center. 45 minutes, ages 8 and up, 50 seats per show. Tickets at the link in bio.

The alumni of Ever After High have come together for a dramatic reunion. Who will you suspect when old grudges turn murderous? Try your hand at solving the mystery on October 18 at 1pm, 3pm, and 5pm at the Alpharetta Arts Center. Ticket link in bio. #sidewaysdance #season20sideways #murdermystery #alpharettaartscenter

Three days until the cameras roll on the Ever After reunion. The whole class is here. Big smiles. (That won't last.) Twisted Tales. Sunday 10/18 at 1, 3 & 5 PM, Alpharetta Arts Center. 45 minutes, ages 8 and up, 50 seats per show. Tickets at the link in bio. Featuring @gooseyhart as Cinderella, @mariacaprio_ as Ariel, @chloethornedance as Peter Pan, @katiepc114 as Snow White, @L@lilyhelmlystrasser as Elsa, @devintowery as Tinkerbell, @shannonebeshears as Pooh Bear and @@sophia.drucker as Aurora.

Meet Elsa (@@lilyhelmlystrasser) and Snow White (@katiepc114 ). They both have a motive. Elsa is aggressively calm. (Nobody is that relaxed.) Snow White weaponizes wellness. (She'd like you to drink some apple juice.) They're both at the Ever After Reunion, and one of their old classmates isn't making it out. Which one do you trust less? Tell us in the comments. Twisted Tales. Sunday 10/18 at 1, 3 & 5 PM, Alpharetta Arts Center. 45 minutes, ages 8 and up, 50 seats per show. Tickets at the link in bio.

Take your seat. Help dance reach farther. Come see SIDEWAYS—and add a gift to help bring dance beyond the stage through adaptive classes, youth outreach, free City event programming, and more accessible ways to experience dance. Buy tickets + add a gift: LINK IN BIO #SIDEWAYS #20Kfor20Years #DanceForEveryone #roswellga

Meet Pooh Bear (@shannonebeshears ) and Aurora (@sophia.drucker) . One of them has a very bad day at the reunion. Pooh Bear showed up to see his old classmates. (That's all we'll say.) Aurora falls asleep at the worst possible moment. (Convenient, isn't it?) Do you buy her alibi? Tell us in the comments. Twisted Tales. Sunday 10/18 at 1, 3 & 5 PM, Alpharetta Arts Center. 45 minutes, ages 8 and up, 50 seats per show. Tickets at the link in bio.

One week from today, the Ever After reunion goes very wrong. Winnie the Pooh is dead. A room full of former classmates with a lot to hide. No spoken dialogue. Dance, reunion footage and confessionals tell the whole story. Twisted Tales. Sunday 10/18 at 1, 3 & 5 PM, Alpharetta Arts Center. 45 minutes, ages 8 and up, 50 seats per show. Tickets at the link in bio. Lilah Smith opens our 1 PM and 3 PM shows with a pre-show piece of her own choreography.

Meet Peter Pan (@chloethornedance ) and Tinkerbell (@@devintowery ). They both have a motive. Peter Pan used to run a cult. Now he gives pep talks. Tinkerbell has done time. (She'd like you to know she's moved on.) They're both at the Ever After Reunion, and one of their old classmates isn't making it out. Which one do you trust less? Tell us in the comments. Twisted Tales. Sunday 10/18 at 1, 3 & 5 PM, Alpharetta Arts Center. 45 minutes, ages 8 and up, 50 seats per show. Tickets at the link in bio.

Take a sneak peek into our rehearsal process for Twisted Tales a Murder Mystery ! Try your hand at solving this murder on October 18th at 1pm, 3pm, and 5pm at the Alpharetta Arts Center. Ticket link in bio 🔗

Meet Cinderella (@gooseyhart ) and Ariel (@mariacaprio_) . They both have a motive. Cinderella is a social climber. (Already halfway up the stairs. She left the shoe.) Ariel collects people like objects. (She looks very relaxed about it.) They're both at the Ever After Reunion, and one of their old classmates isn't making it out. Which one do you trust less? Tell us in the comments. Twisted Tales. Sunday 10/18 at 1, 3 & 5 PM, Alpharetta Arts Center. 45 minutes, ages 8 and up, 50 seats per show. Tickets at the link in bio.

Meet Lilah Smith. Proud member of FSDC, and the very first thing you'll see at Twisted Tales at 1 PM & 3 PM on Sunday, 10/18. She choreographed her own pre-show piece. Original. All hers. (We are SO proud!) Come a little early to the Alpharetta Arts Center so you don't miss it. Tickets at the link in bio.

We love @chriscoatesphotos! Behind the scenes of our once upon a holiday shoot!!#sidewaysdance #atldance #season20sideways

Take a peek behind the scenes of our Season 20 photoshoot! Our dancers had a blast collaborating with the talented @chriscoatesphotos in Marietta today! #sidewayscontemporarydance #season20sideways #dancephotography #dancephotoshoot #mariettaartscene

Tuesdays at 10 AM. The best place to be each week!

The Penguins are a much loved role in Once Upon A Holiday. We love partnering with Atlanta Dance Central and these young performers to make the magic happen!

We'll be at Arts on the Boardwalk this Saturday in John's Creek. See you at 3:10!

Meet another new member of Sideways! We are so excited to have Sophia for season 20! #sidewaysdance #contemporarydance #season20sideways #roswellarts

Help us in welcoming Devin, another great new addition to our Sideways season 20 team! #sidewayscontemporarydance #atldance #atldancelife #season20sideways

BTS: Character Confessionals for Twisted Tales. So much fun!

Meet Chloe, one of the newest members of the Sideways team! #sidewayscontemporarydance #atldance #atldancelife #season20sideways

The Ever After High reunion was going surprisingly well. Then Pooh found the honey. 🍯 Ever After Twisted Tales turns your favorite storybook characters into grown-up reunion guests with old grudges, questionable coping skills, and a lot they would prefer not to discuss on camera. Who has really changed? Who is still lying? And who turned the reunion into a murder investigation? Find out October 18 when SIDEWAYS brings this twisted fairy-tale mystery to the stage. #SIDEWAYSDance #TwistedTales #ContemporaryDance #RoswellGA

Meet Ariel from FSDC. She came back to dance after years away. What she found in her Physio Jazz class, wasn't a class built around a diagnosis. It was a room full of dancers, seen first for who they are, not what they're managing. A year later, Ariel has genuine friendships, a body she trusts again, and a spot in the Foster-Schmidt Dance Company for the season ahead. SIDEWAYS is proud to share the stage with amazing dancers like her - inclusion that isn't a program on paper, but a community that makes room for exactly who you are.

POV: you picked up the broom to clean the kitchen. The broom had other plans. WOMAN takes the 1950s housewife and gives her a wake-up call nobody put in the manual — brooms included. First look below.

We started building the Snow finale this week! It closes Act 1 of Once Upon A Holiday — and it's been a fan favorite since 2009. A look inside the room while it's still becoming what you'll see on stage.

Hedy Lamarr was one of the most photographed women in Hollywood & — casually — co-inventor of the technology your Bluetooth runs on. The Navy classified it. Her patent expired before the world caught up. She never saw a cent. We made a piece about what gets left out of the story. July Nightmode at Mimms Museum of Technology and Art We're back in October. Come find us. 🩵 @mimms_museum

First rehearsal, 2006: 7 people in a rented studio & I had no idea what I was building. First rehearsal, 2026: 20 years of dancers who found a place where dance felt good again. Season 20. Let's go. 🩵

Excited to perform this Friday for Mimms Museum of Technology and Art Night Mode! Catch us at 5:30 PM!

Twenty years ago, we had six dancers, a rented studio, and no idea what we were doing. Today, our 20th season starts. Swipe through for what's coming: two shows before the new year, a milestone rep show next spring, and a free day in the park next April. Here's to the next twenty. 🩵

Behind the scenes at auditions last week! Season 20 - here we come!

Genesis from W.O.M.A.N. at Roswell Cultural Arts Center - March 2026

1 Day to go! Join us tomorrow for our most ambitious season yet!

Happy Birthday to SIDEWAYS! We are 20 years old today!

Find the joy again. No toxic culture. Just the Joy of Dance.

A place where dance feels good again. June 27. Come dance with us.

Audition anxiety is real. Here's exactly what to expect. 🩵 Swipe through — no surprises, no gatekeeping. Just what the day actually looks like. Auditions: June 27. Link in bio. 👆

Four seasons ago she walked into her favorite audition ever. 🩵 Auditions: June 27. Link in bio. 👆#sidewayscontemporarydance #atldance #atldancelife #season20sideways https://sidewaysdance.org/auditions/

Twenty years. Five photos. 💜 We had two decades to choose from. These are the ones that stayed with us. None of it happens without the community who shows up and supports us. Thank you for being a part of our story! #20yearsofsideways #sidewayscontemporarydance #season20sideways #SupportLocalArts

Twenty years of showing up. Professional dance, right here in North Metro Atlanta. Since 2006. Not slowing down. #sidewaysdance #20yearsofsideways #roswellga #northmetroatlanta #contemporarydance

"The dancers brought the characters to life." 💙 We're already plotting the next murder. 🎭 What theme do you want to see? Drop your ideas below — we're listening.

Audition Alert! Rediscover the Joy of Dance! Low time-commitment, multiple performances per season, paid performances & rehearsal stipend, weekly class. #sidewayscontemporarydance #atldance #atldancer #atldancelife @dance.atl @ksudancedept @ugadancedept @brenaudance Regsiter athttps://sidewaysdance.org/auditions/

SIDEWAYS doesn't exist in a vacuum. We exist because this community showed up — and kept showing up. 💜 Here's who's been with us for 20 years: @alpharettaartsandculture @fultonarts 7 Stages @7stagesatl @blueyursus @morningstar_storage @mimms_museum Mimms Museum of Technology and Art @roswellcac @roswellcac @alpharettaartsandculture We are deeply grateful. #sidewayscontemporarydance #season20sideways

Twenty years. Here's the chapter we've been building toward. Twenty — March 2027. Auditions June 27. This is the season. 🔗 Link in bio.

We're thrilled that we could host our 2nd annual Day of Dance! Great Weather. Great Dancing. Great Vibes. Thank you @atlanta_contemporary_dance , @ugadancedept , and Andrew Jordan Hayworth for joining us!

1 Week until Day of Dance! Join us next Sunday from 2-5 PM for a fun afternoon of free professional dance. Performances by SIDEWAYS and UGA Dance, Andrew Jordan Hayworth, and Atlanta Contemporary Dance. @ugadancedept @andrew.j.h.42 @atlanta_contemporary_dance @@crabapplemarketga

Dance with us this SUMMER! World Explorer Camp is the perfect way to learn about dance and art from different cultures. For campers of all-levels, age 7-12. @alpharettaartsandculture https://anc.apm.activecommunities.com/alpharetta/activity/search/detail/68799?onlineSiteId=0&from_original_cui=true

Thank you to everyone who joined us for WOMAN at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center this March! If you missed it - you're in luck! We'll be performing excerpts from WOMAN at Day of Dance on April 26th in Milton. 2-5 PM & totally FREE!

Join us next Sunday for our DAY OF DANCE at The Green at Crabapple Market! Dance performances throughout the afternoon from UGA Dance, Andrew Jordan Hayworth, and Atlanta Contemporary Dance. FREE/Pay what you Can Tickets. @uga_dance, @@atlanta_contemporary_dance, and @andrew.j.h.42

Excited to celebrate women & perform at EmpowerHer Art exhibit @fulcolibrarycentral

Join us today for W.O.M.A.N. Roswell Cultural Arts Center 2 PM & 5 PM

This weekend. W.O.M.A.N. takes the stage. A powerful story of expectation, motherhood, and the love that shapes us long after we leave home. In just 45 minutes, this performance moves through: The Expectations - Roles We Carry The Mother — Holding On & Letting Go The Circle — The love that shapes us Only two performances: 2 PM & 5 PM. 📅 March 22 📍 Roswell Cultural Arts Center 🎟 Tickets $28

Spring is here. 🌸 And in two days, W.O.M.A.N. comes to life. A story of expectation, motherhood, and the love that shapes generations. March 22 | Roswell Cultural Arts Center 🎟 Tickets $28

If you loved Once Upon A Holiday, come see what dance can do when the story grows up. W.O.M.A.N. A powerful story of expectation, motherhood, and the love that shapes generations. March 22 🎟 Tickets $28

This weekend. 45 minutes. Three movements. One powerful story. W.O.M.A.N. March 22 | Roswell Cultural Arts Center 🎟 Tickets $28 Bring someone you love.

St. Patrick’s Day is about heritage. Who taught you the traditions you carry today? A recipe. A saying. A way of loving. W.O.M.A.N. explores the roles women carry and the love that shapes generations. Tag the woman who passed something meaningful down to you. ☘️ March 22 | Roswell Cultural Arts Center 🎟 Tickets $28

In the theater this morning prepping lighting. Don't miss W.O.M.A.N. this Sunday!

Behind the Scenes of Expectations - The pull of the expectations, priorities, and obsessive thoughts.

Mothers have daughters. Daughters become mothers. Gestures repeat. Strength echoes. Love continues. Experience W.O.M.A.N. March 22 | Roswell Cultural Arts Center 🎟 Tickets $28 Bring someone you love.

f you’re a mother, you may recognize this feeling. The fierce love. The quiet sacrifice. The vulnerability of holding someone close… while knowing one day you’ll have to let them go. In this section of W.O.M.A.N., our dancers explore the honesty and tenderness of motherhood — the strength it takes to hold on, and the courage it takes to let go. Part of The Mother: Holding On & Letting Go March 22 Roswell Cultural Arts Center Bring someone you love.

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