“Roots and Rhythm: An American Dance Journey” will be presented Tuesday, April 22, at the Historic Grove Theater, 123 Randolph Road, in Oak Ridge as the third program in the Our American Roots series for 2025.
Light refreshments will be available starting at 6 p.m., and the program will begin at 7 p.m.

The dancing groups that will perform are the Vine Middle Magnet School Dance Team in Knoxville, which will perform West African dances accompanied by an African drum; KPDA, the Korean Pop Dance Team from the University of Tennessee, and Ramya S. Kapadia, a Bharatanatyam dancer who performs South Indian classical dances. She shuttles between Knoxville, where her family lives, and Durham, North Carolina, where she works.
Speakers about the different dances will be Ruby Heard, a director of the Vine Middle Magnet School Dance Company; Jennie Kim and Shamir Harper, directors of the UT K-Pop group, and Ramya S. Kapadia.
This is the third program in the third season of Our American Roots produced by the Oak Ridge Institute for Continued Learning in partnership with the Oak Ridge Breakfast Rotary Club. The program is open to the public.