For five months, dancers from across Canada have been honing the choreography of a nature-themed dance, and on Friday performed it simultaneously at locations around the country.

Friday's Sharing Dance Day wrapped the nationwide program, which aims to encourage people to take part in dance and get moving.

The Sharing Dance Day choreography was learned through online tutorials and free weekly classes at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

In Morden, a workshop with a visiting choreographer was also held, where over 280 dancers from Ecole Morden Middle School took part. Around 120 of those young dancers then had the opportunity to go to the University of Winnipeg on Friday, for the Sharing Dance Day event.

Around 120 Morden dancers performed at the University of Winnipeg on Friday for the Sharing Dance Day event.

Molly Clyde, a grade 7 student from EMMS was among the group from Morden that was able to attend the event at the university.

"We got to watch some hip-hop and contemporary dancers, and we got to learn some other kind of dance...it was really cool to see all the people dancing," said Clyde.

Jaxson Forster, a grade 5 EMMS student, said the choreography of the entire nature-themed dance really spoke to him.

"At the start of the dance, you're just happy and loving and caring. Then halfway through dance, there's a more harsh, rash section where you're cutting down trees...at the end, the trees finally grow back, and you collect water to give back to the earth."