Downtown Rapid City is going to have belly dancers moving between breweries, the Farmers Market, and Main Street on Saturday afternoon before the whole thing lands inside Fifth Street Pub for an opening party that looks more like a community jam session than a standard gallery show.

Anastasia Smith Arts and Sisters Dance Tribe are participating in Shimmy Mob for the fourth year, joining dancers around the world performing the same choreography during the second week of May as part of an international flash mob now in its fifteenth year. The local crew plans to hit the Farmers Market around noon, Main Street Square around 3 p.m., and several downtown breweries throughout the day before gathering at Aby’s for Anastasia Smith’s opening party from 5–8 p.m. inside Fifth Street Pub.

The night is centered around Smith’s artwork, but the walls are only part of what’s happening. Guests will be able to jump into paper folding, watercolor, and drawing activities throughout the evening. Figure drawing artists and students will also be set up during the event, with visitors invited to sign up as live models and become part of the work themselves.

Sisters Dance Tribe will be performing throughout the night alongside live percussion from Amber Tjeerdsma. Local rock band Wicked Six is also scheduled to play a set, turning the opening into a full live music and dance party inside the pub. Smith says performances from both the Shimmy Mob team and Sisters Dance Tribe will continue throughout the evening.

There is also a very real chance the band may end up celebrating something bigger than the show itself. Wicked Six member Derick may miss the performance if his wife Christina goes into labor that day.

The event doubles as an open invitation into the larger community surrounding Anastasia Smith Arts and Sisters Dance Tribe, including beginner belly dance classes, private art lessons, and ongoing figure drawing sessions around Rapid City.

By Saturday night, there is a good chance somebody who only planned to stop in for a drink at Aby’s ends up sitting under a figure drawing lamp while a belly dance drummer jams with a rock band a few feet away.