Royal Caribbean to Launch Hip Hop Dance Program

Royal Caribbean International is introducing a new Gotta Dance program designed to teach and perform hip-hop dance moves.

Based on the documentary film by Dori Berinstein, the guest-participatory Gotta Dance experience will be offered fleetwide this summer.

The documentary will be shown on big screens starting in July. Gotta Dance chronicles the senior citizen, hip-hop dance troupe for the New Jersey Nets basketball team. Each cruise will feature a screening of the film. Guests on select ships before the nationwide roll-out of the movie will get an advanced viewing.

Participants will then be divided into teams and, over the course of their vacation, will learn choreographed routines with a member of the Royal Caribbean dance team in rehearsals during sea days.

The program will culminate with the main event -- a farewell show on the last evening of the cruise in the main theater. Each group will perform a different routine, all of which were choreographed by New Jersey Nets’ dance coach Kimberlee Garris, who also appears in the Gotta Dance film.