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Emancipation Day Celebration at Weeksville Heritage Center
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Brooklyn-based Palestinian vocalist Fahim Dandan grew up with exposure to the folk music traditions of Haifa and nearby villages. Dandan’s mother was respected for her musical ability and noted for h... more
Festival Storytelling Session: Folk Tales from Guyana and the Dominican Republic
Storytale session featuring folk tales from Guyana and the Dominican Republic as part of the “Let’s Make It Happen in Our Community” Annual Festival. Event is rain or shine. Presented by Brooklyn A... 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
Artists from BAC’s Folk Arts in Education Program perform songs, stories and dances and discuss their traditions and cultural history.
The terms “folk” and “traditional” describe the artists and art forms that our programming supports. Few of the traditional artists we work with have ever received formal training; most learn by obser... more
Artists from BAC’s Assembly Program roster perform songs, stories, and dances, and discuss the history and traditions of their native countries and cultures.
Here are some helpful links to folk arts research, grants, publications, organizations and information about specific artists and art forms. American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress ... more
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress City Lore in Manhattan New York Folklore Society Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Texas Folklife ... 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: 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: 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 Video Documentary Screening
BAC Folk Arts will screen two Folk Feet video documentary projects, “Dancing in Detail: Brooklyn’s Traditional Dances in Practice, 2007-2008” which features 16 of the over 200 Brooklyn traditional dan... 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
Frisner Augustin and La Troupe Makandal
For over 20 years, La Troupe Makandal and its Artistic Director, Master Drummer, and National Heritage Award winner, Frisner Augustin, have thrilled audiences with the exciting traditional dances, mus... more
Gaida Hinnawi is a vocalist and composer working at the intersection of the New York Arab and improvised music scenes. Her compositions draw on classical Arabic song, Syrian folk traditions, and impro... more
Brooklyn-based Shafik grew up in a musical family in Cairo surrounded by Egyptian popular, folk, and classical music that made his Shobra neighborhood jump. As a young boy, he practiced percussion on... more
George was born in Birzeit, Palestine, and pursued music from a young age. In 1986 he moved to the United States, where he has studied oud with Simon Shaheen and classical singing and voice with Youss... more
Half the Sky Festival: Brooklyn Women in Traditional Performance April 22 - June 8, 2012 Brooklyn Arts Council presents Half the Sky Festival,an intensive exploration of gender and diaspora in Bro... more
Born in Nador, Morroco, to a family that practices music traditions, Hisham began playing percussion at age 13. His first lessons in music came from his cousin and a close friend, both of whom played ... more
Folk Feet on Fifth’s kick-off event brought together more than 30 local traditional dancers to sample each others' dances, food and discuss the role of traditional dance in the neighborhood. The histo... more
Intergenerations: Dance Kings of Black Brooklyn
A special evening honored an important generation of Brooklyn’s Black male dancers and choreographers, who have served their communities and influenced younger dancers, including Obediah Wright, Baba ... more
Intergenerations: Randy Weston Trio with Special Guest Ayanda Clarke
BAC presents Brooklyn’s legendary jazz pianist Randy Weston with his trio mates Alex Blake (string bass) and Neil Clarke (African percussion), with guest artists T.K. Blue (soprano sax), Billy Harper ... more
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