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We're bringing him back once more for
Footloose in the Foothills for 2025...
Gary O'Reilly
Voted
Male Dance Personality of the year
International Instructor of the year
International Choreographer of the year
at the 2022 Crystal Boot Awards
June 13-15, 2025
Highwood Memorial Centre, 128 5th Ave SW
High River, AB
A warm welcome
to Footloose in
the Foothills in High River, Alberta! (High River is 30 minutes south of Calgary) Join us for a weekend full of
line dance instruction. Our upcoming event in June of 2025 will be open for registration shortly. We anticipate a full house for this fun-filled event, so please don't delay in registering if you want to join us in 2025!
We have the wonderful choreographer and instructor Gary O'Reilly from Ireland joining us as our guest instructor, along with fabulous local instructors Mary Rochfort, Wendy Johansson, Helen McIntyre, and Sean Buckley. We also have Carolyn Jurek (formerly from Calgary, now living in Toronto), with Bjorn J. as DJ in the main hall.
A reminder that Footloose will focus on Beginner and Intermediate levels, with classes in both levels running at the same time all weekend. Classes run Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday, with social dancing on Friday and Saturday evenings.
The weekend pass includes morning coffee and muffins to get your day started on Saturday and Sunday, lunches to keep you going on Saturday and Sunday, all the dance workshops, both Friday and Saturday evening social dances, and step sheet descriptions for the dances taught, available online on this website for download.
There's something for everyone at this all line dance weekend. Come prepared to have a great time! All activities take place at the Highwood Centre, a beautiful facility just outside of Calgary in High River. We encourage you to stay overnight at the Super 8, Ramada, or Heritage Inn in High River. Footloose group rates are now available on the accommodations page.
Tentative Weekend Itinerary:
Friday
5:00pm - Doors Open
5:30pm - "Kick off the Weekend" dance taught by Helen McIntyre
6-6:30pm - Playlist begins in Main Hall
6:30pm - Beginner workshop with Gary O'Reilly (Main Hall)
7:00pm - Low Intermediate workshop with Gary O'Reilly (Main Hall)
7:30pm - 10:30pm - Playlist begins in the Country Room
7:30pm-11:30pm - Playlist continutes (Main Hall)
Saturday
9:30am - Doors open, coffee & muffins
10:00am - Workshops start
12:45pm - Lunch served
2:00pm - Workshops resume
3:45pm - Workshops end
6:45pm - Doors open for evening dance
7:00pm - Playlists start for Main Hall(all levels)
8-11pm - Playlist starts for the Level 1-2-3-4 Room (Main Hall) (Danced to original music)
8-11pm - Playlists starts for level 4-6+ (Veteran/Heritage Room)
11pm - Doors close for Saturday
Sunday
9:30am - Doors open, coffee & muffins
10am - Workshops begin
12:45pm - Lunch Served
1:45pm - Workshops resume
2:30 - Workshop end
2:30 - 4:00pm - Mini Social (try out Sunday Dances... quick reviews before dancing if needed)
We are now at the Highwood Memorial Centre in High River. This venue has beautiful hardwood floors and enough space to accommodate all our dancers! We are very excited to show you where you'll be dancing!.... (And did we mention that the main hall is a sprung dance floor with horse hair cushioning? Alberta is fabulous!!
Thanks to all of our dancers in 2024 who raised $2585 for the Line Dance Foundation during the Footloose Weekend!!
