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FOLK FEET FIGHT FOR DUMBO Last year BAC's Folk Feet dancers knocked out audiences at DUMBO FIGHT NIGHT, the DUMBO Improvement District's first annual fundraiser. Team "Folk Feet" has been invited bac... more
This drum and dance ensemble specializes in Bomba, Puerto Rico's oldest art form dating back to its colonial history. Bomba's musicality and aesthetics are a combination of African, Indigenous, and Eu... more
Euston James - Trinidadian limbo and calypso
Euston James, a native of Trinidad, has lived in Brooklyn since 1972. In the U.S. he has participated in West Indian carnival traditions as a dancer of calypso and limbo and as a fire-eater. His speci... more
BAC is proud to help nurture Brooklyn’s traditional artists and preserve our borough’s diverse heritage though our Folk Arts programs. See a merengue típico dance at a Dominican party in Bushwick; ... more
Folk Feet is made possible, in part, by Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and The New York Community Trust.
Video: Kay Turner Director of Islamic Funeral Services in Ft. Greene, the Turkish-born Erhan Yildirim is heard chant-singing mevlid, the traditional Turkish Islamic lamentation for the dead whi... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops focus on teaching the movement repertoire of specific traditions. Each workshop also provides an overview of the dance’s cultural setting, such as the costume, music and craf... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: American Square Dance
Join dancers Don and Dot Coy at this Folk Feet Dance Workshop presented by BPL Bay Ridge, a Folk Feet on Fifth partner. Brooklyn Public Library, Bay Ridge 7223 Ridge Boulevard FREE Ages 10 t... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Egyptian Folkdance
Join dancer Yasser Darwish at this Folk Feet Dance Workshop presented by BPL Bay Ridge, a Folk Feet on Fifth partner. Brooklyn Public Library, Bay Ridge 7223 Ridge Boulevard FREE Ages 10 thr... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Greek Dance
Join dancer Chrisafo Madimenos at this Folk Feet Dance Workshop presented by BPL Bay Ridge, a Folk Feet on Fifth partner. Brooklyn Public Library, Bay Ridge 7223 Ridge Boulevard FREE Ages 10... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Haitian Folkloric Dance
Haitian Folkloric Dance Classes Sundays, May/June 12 noon - 1:30 pm Join dancer Nadia Dieudonné for classes on the dance of Haiti. Experience the vibrant rhythms and dance of Haiti! Live drummi... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Panamanian Dance
Join dancer Alberto Gonzalez at this Folk Feet Dance Workshop presented by Young Dancers in Repertory, a Folk Feet on Fifth partner. FREE Salaam Arabic Lutheran Church 345 Ovington Avenue (Bet... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Tahitian Dance
Ori Tahiti: The Dance of Tahiti Monday, December 1 8 - 9pm Join dancer Kaina Quenga for workshops on the dance of Tahiti. Kaina will teach basic hip movements, costuming, and will discuss her p... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Tahitian Dance
Ori Tahiti: The Dance of Tahiti Monday, December 8 8 - 9pm Join dancer Kaina Quenga for workshops on the dance of Tahiti. Kaina will teach basic hip movements, costuming, and will discuss her p... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Tahitian Dance
Ori Tahiti: The Dance of Tahiti Monday, December 15 8 - 9pm Join dancer Kaina Quenga for workshops on the dance of Tahiti. Kaina will teach basic hip movements, costuming, and will discuss her ... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Ukrainian Dance
Join dancer Tamara Chernyakhovska at this Folk Feet Dance Workshop presented by BPL Bay Ridge, a Folk Feet on Fifth partner. Brooklyn Public Library, Bay Ridge 7223 Ridge Boulevard FREE Ages... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Ukrainian Folk Vechornytsi
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, in collaboration with Brooklyn Arts Council, presents Ukrainian Folk Vechornytsi (Ukrainian Village Dance Party). BROOKLYN UKRAINIAN RESTAURANT 1223 Ave... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Ukrainian Midwinter Vechornytsi
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Ukrainian Wave, present a midwinter Vechornytsi (Village Dance Party). Brooklyn Ukrainian Restaurant 1223 Avenue U, Brooklyn (between East 12th Str... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Yiddish Dance Party
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture, the Bensonhurst Jewish Community Home and Brooklyn Arts Council's Folk Feet Program present... Tantshoyz Yiddish Da... more
Folk Feet on Fifth is part of the BAC Folk Arts' Folk Feet traditional dance project begun in 2003 to identify, document and present traditional dance in Brooklyn. Folk Feet on Fifth focuses on the ne... more
Folk Feet Workshops at Spoke the Hub
This fall, Folk Feet Dance Workshops collaborates with Brooklyn’s Spoke the Hub Dancing (STH) (www.spokethehub.org) to launch their new World Dance Program, to be held at STH’s beautifully renovated s... more
Folk Feet Workshops: Arab Social Dance
Sunday, July 13th, 2-6pm Bay Ridge Arab American Bazaar, at Shore Road Park, (79th and Shore Road, Bay Ridge Brooklyn) click for map Sunday, July 20th , 2-6pm Arab American Heritage Park Festi... more
Foly: African Dance Master Classes
Master classes are presented by Youssouf Koumbassa on May 14 and Mamadou Dahoué on May 15 as a prelude to the 14th Annual DanceAfrica Pre-Opening Celebration held the following weekend. Presented b... more
Foot Notes: Folk Feet Meet Modern Feet
Join BAC at this second annual, FREE event, presented as part of the city-wide Immigrant Heritage Week, features Brooklyn-based traditional dancers from culturally-specific immigrant groups alongside ... more
Sherley St. Fort - Haitian dance
Half the Sky Festival: Circle, Shimmy, Sway
Circle, Shimmy, Sway June 9, 3-5pm Brooklyn Bridge Park (DUMBO) Meet on the lawn in front of Tobacco Warehouse at New Dock Street (off Water Street). Rain Location: Brooklyn Arts Council, 55 Wa... more
Half the Sky Festival: Folk Feet Females
BK Art Lovers get in free.
Half the Sky Festival: Girls Hit the Streets
Girls Hit the Streets June 2, 7-8:30pm The Actors Fund Arts Center 160 Schermerhorn Street (Downtown Brooklyn) Presented by BAC with support from Mrs. Eleanor Archie. Free!... more
Black Brooklyn Renaissance presents Hip Hop Hybrids of Brooklyn at Public Assembly, a showcase of the borough's cutting edge Hip Hop artists (many of whom are women: Tantra, Leecy, LMNOP), who are wor... more
