Get ready to move more as the 2025 Jamestown Dance Festival is expanding to a four-day event.

The Fest is presented by Sukanya Burman Dance, and it’s a celebration of movement, culture, and community across Chautauqua County.

Burman, SBD executive director, said the festival is from Sept. 4-7, and it will feature performances, workshops, and special events that highlight the diversity of global dance traditions while building bridges through artistic expression.

“We’ve introduced new performance venues, including the Robert Lee Scharmann Theatre at Jamestown Community College, co-hosted by JCC for the first time, a collaboration that brings these global and regional artists into a more campus-connected environment,” Burman said.

Burman added that new this year is a free film screening of Paris Is Burning and a free community mixer and party featuring live music from Buffalo’s Family Funktion and Sitar Jams. The festival also expands into Buffalo this year, at the Torn Space Theater.

Three dance companies, and three individual acts along with a total of 30 artists will be participating, Burman said.

Here are the featured companies and individual acts:

– Les Ballet Afrik of New York City, (AfrikFusion dance)

– Sri Thina Dance of New York City (Odissi and Bharatanatyam dance)

– MahataMmoho Collective of Buffalo (West African and Contemporary dance)

– Sukanya Burman of Jamestown, (Bharatanatyam dance)

– Grace Gibbons of Bemus Point (ballet and Contemporary dance)

Star Larson of Sugar Grove, (Modern and Contemporary)

Burman said the centerpiece of this year’s festival is the highly anticipated performance of the Works & Process commissioned work, New York Is Burning by the renowned Les Ballet Afrik, led by Guggenheim Fellow and international dance icon Omari Wiles. Taking place Friday, Sept. 5 at 7:30 PM at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts, the production fuses ballroom, house, and African diasporic styles into a vibrant, electrifying celebration of resilience and queerness rooted in the legacy of Paris Is Burning. A Vogueing workshop led by Wiles kicks off the festival the evening prior at Jamestown Community College.

“Vogu­eing is a ballroom-culture dance form, birthed in LGBTQIA+ communities of Black and Latino New York City in the 1980s,” Burman said. “It’s characterized by stylized, angular, rhythmic poses, fluidity, storytelling through posture, attention to line and attitude. It’s deeply expressive, rooted in identity, resilience, style, and the fierce creativity of survival. Wiles invites all to a hands-on vogueing workshop on Sept. 4 at 5 PM, where we’ll learn not only movement, but the history, spirit, and technique of ballroom culture.”

The fest, Burman said, will begin with Indian Classical Night at JCC’s Scharmann Theater, showcasing spellbinding solo and ensemble works by masters of Bharatanatyam and Odissi, including Sri Thina Dance, and Sukanya Burman. The evening begins at 7:30 PM and is open to the public with discounts available for students and community members.

For more information visit sukanyaburman.com.