Halloween weekend is at hand. After a year off due to the pandemic, a global in-person dance event is returning. “Thrill The World” features people dancing around the world simultaneously to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”.
Hundreds are expected for a Saturday afternoon version of the dance on the South Coast.
The non-profit group “World Dance for Humanity” has been gearing up for the 3 p.m. event at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse’s Sunken Gardens with a series of popup “flash mob” street performances around the community this week.
Janet Reineck, who’s the founder of the non-profit, says that more tha 100 people are already signed up, with many planning to come in zombie costumes to the event.
Everyone is welcome to watch, and join in the dancing. The World Dance event in Santa Barbara has sponsors, and has raised more than $13,000 so far for education programs at the Westside Boys and Girls Club, and for school programs in Rwanda.
