Get up and move at dance festival.

Byline: The Register-Guard

Hip-hop, tango, break dancing, theater for children and grandparents, DanceAbility and contact improvisation will be among the styles presented during the fourth annual Eugene Dance Festival at the WOW Hall next weekend.

This year's theme is "Dance Into Diversity." Producer and founder Alito Alessi believes the festival, in which workshops play a dominant role, will provide "a weekend of dance, theater and music for all ages and all abilities in a cross-pollination celebration of Eugene dance communities."

Alessi, who heads the Joint Forces Dance Company, created the Eugene Dance Festival as part of his international efforts to integrate dance communities of people with varying abilities.

The lobby gallery space will feature dance-inspired photography and paintings in an exhibit titled "Dancing on the Walls."

Weekend passes are $25 to $50. Admission to individual events is $5 to $10 on a sliding scale. Saturday night's dance costs an additional $4, or $8 to $12 for the party only.

Tickets are available at the Lane Arts Council, the WOW Hall and at the door. For information, call 342-3273.

The lineup of workshops:

Saturday

10 a.m. - "The Teddy Bear's Picnic," a theater class for children 6 to 8; led by Lola Broomberg, director of the Boldness Institute and coordinator of Imagine That! Summer Adventures.

11 a.m. - "Scarier Than That," for children ages 9 to 11; participants can invent a scary story and then bring it to life with sound effects, musical support and dramatic play.

noon to 2 p.m. - DanceAbility class; people of different backgrounds can explore the language of their own bodies through creative movement.

2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. - "TRUTHeatre" workshop, taught by Eliza Roaring Springs, who heads Encore Theatre; children (10 and up), adults and seniors will be taught ways to build connections across generations.

3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. - Multimedia artist Mari Livie will conduct clay workshops in the lobby.

4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. - Argentine tango workshop, with Vicky Ayers.

7 p.m. - Salsa class with Jesse Marquez and Neri Rodriguez of the salsa band Son Mela'o.

8 p.m. - A dance and concert with music by Son Mela'o.

Sunday

11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. - Dance Kaleidoscope class, by Pamela Lehan-Siegel and Marc Siegel, co-artistic directors of the Dance Theatre of Oregon; movement vocabulary from Limon-based modern dance, ballet, disco, jazz and the DTO repertoire.

1 p.m. - Hip-hop with Sarah Ebert, who teaches dance classes at the University of Oregon.

2:15 p.m. - Break dancing with Darryl Shaft, a member of Dance Theatre of Oregon.

3:45 p.m. to 4:45 - Multimedia artist Mari Livie will conduct clay workshops in the lobby.

3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. - Class on contact improvisation by Margo Van Ummersen, artistic director of Van Ummersen Dance Company, and Amy Impellizzerri, a full-time practitioner of contact improvisation.

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. - "OPEN Dance Jam" with live music.