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Roundtable: Arab Dance Traditions
An evening exploring Arab dance traditions, with primary emphasis on their performance in New York City presented by Dr. Kay Turner, who teaches in NYU’s Performance Studies Dept. and is also folklori... more
Founded at Bay Ridge’s Arab American Association in 2001, Salaam Debkah promotes youth development and Arab cultural forms. Practicing weekly, under the direction of Sheren Attal, Salaam Debkah is no... more
Samara has spent 25 years dedicated to the dances of the Middle East and North Africa. Drawn to the dance because of her Mediterranean heritage (Greek and Turkish), she began dancing professionally in... more
Sherly St. Fort - Haitian dance
Sherley St. Fort grew up in Brooklyn, home to New York’s largest Haitian community, where she danced Hatian social dances like compas, traditional folkloric forms and popular Caribbean dances like zou... more
Shock-a-lock - Locking and street dance
Brooklyn-born and raised, Kevin (Shock-a-lock) Porter is an original locker who was instrumental in sparking the locking dance in New York City in the 70s. Locking is a style of isolated movement inno... more
Tamara Chernyakhovska - Ukranian folk dance
Tamara Chernyakhovska is a Brooklyn-based Ukrainian choreographer, teacher, and dancer. For fifteen years she was a principal dancer with the G. G. Veriovka Ukrainian National Dance Company of Kyiv, ... more
Tiny Love (Razvan Gorea) - Breaking and electric boogie
Tiny Love (Razvan Gorea) and Guests Tiny Love is well-versed in several urban dance styles including waving, b-boying and uprock. He specializes in Electric Boogie, which features Popping, a technique... more
Vongku Pak is a Korean-born and Brooklyn-based artist who specializes in Korean traditional folk arts, including poongmul, samulnor (drum and gong ensemble), and mask dance. He has studied with Human... more
Workshop: Brooklyn’s Arab World Dance Traditions
Brooklyn’s Arab World Dance Traditions: Dance Workshops and Q&A Learn three dance forms as practiced and performed in Brooklyn’s Arab communities. Egyptian-born performer Yasser Darwish, teaches a... more
Darwish, a performer and teacher of Egyptian folkloric dance, was born in Alexandria, Egypt. At the age of 18, Darwish became a member of the Alexandria Folk Dance Group and several years later moved ... more
Yasser Darwish - Egyptian folk dances
Yasser Darwish, a performer and teacher of Egyptian and Middle Eastern dance traditions, was born in Alexandia, Egypt. He became a member of the Alexandria Folk Dance Group and later joined the Nation... more
