Gotta Dance!

Tonight at 7:30 at Severance Hall, join the Cleveland Orchestra and a team of local dancers for Gotta Dance!, a concert featuring history’s “most toe-tapping” classical music. Musical selections including a waltz from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, a habanera from Bizet’s Carmen, a wild square dance from Copland’s Rodeo and rousing Slavonic Dances by Dvořák. Designed to introduce children ages 7 to 12 to the orchestra as an ensemble, the event will also feature free pre-concert family activities that begin at 6:30 p.m. Swing and Swing takes place in the Smith Lobby (on the ground floor). Children can play an assortment of child-friendly percussion instruments with their parents and the instructors from Sing and Swing. At an Instrument Discovery Zone with Royalton Music Center in the Smith Lobby, kids can discover their “inner musician” by trying out orchestral instruments with the assistance of Royalton Music Center staff. And in the Bogomolny-Kozerefski Grand Foyer, the Csárdás Dance Company will offer dance lessons. Tickets start at $15. (Niesel)