World-Wide Dancing Connection

Rosanne Fortier - News Correspondent

Dancing is a universal language of bonding, joy, and rhythm. For the wrap-up for 2025, Vegreville Line Dance Club filmed the line dance called ‘Tipsy, the Bar Song’ to participate in the International Line Dance Flash Mob 2025 project at the Vegreville Elks/Kinsmen Park!

This is something that is happening all over the world.

Founder and Coordinator of Vegreville Line Dance Club Lana Syms explained that this group has been operating since the fall of 2022. 

On how it has been going, Syms admitted that everyone seems to love this group! “We have such strong supporters, a great weekly turnout and I'm always hearing great things out in the community about how the dancers talk about how much they enjoy it!

For dancing each week, we typically have between 20-30 dancers show up, sometimes more.  We see surges throughout the year and people come and go as we are a complete drop in class.  We grow bigger every year.”

Syms expressed that they wanted to get involved with this project because one of their dancers brought it to the group's attention and they thought it would be fun to showcase Vegreville and their small but thriving group. “We practiced the dance over the past few months and then just picked a date when everyone could come together for filming. We dance weekly so we just added it to our dance rotation.  We had a lot of fun with it!”

On creating the video, Syms said they thought it went fantastic! “We filmed the dance from several different locations and angles throughout the park so it should be great to see how the video is all put together.  That will take a little while as we have to gather footage from several devices, merge into one location and then edit the footage into one video. Thankfully, we have a volunteer who is taking care of all of that.” 

Members Elizabeth and Tim Nawrot said they have been a part of this club for two and a half years. They really enjoy the lively music and the fun group of people of all ages. “It's good exercise too, we would like to see more guys get involved!  There's great energy when we all dance together, no judgment, and lots of laughs.  The Flash Mob 2025 project was the perfect way to show off some positive community spirit in our town.”