ShowcaseFolk Feet
CELEBRATING TRADITIONAL DANCE IN BROOKLYN
Celebrating their 35th anniversary in 2007, the current Gowanus Wildcats line-up clap, shuffle and stomp through an intergenerational drill routine alongside team alumnae: their mothers, aunts and older sisters. Photo: Etienne Frossard
Traditional dance is one of the least served areas of the arts in the United States. As a result, many traditional dance groups lack sufficient funding and remain unknown. To address this problem, in 2003 BAC Folk Arts initiated Folk Feet, a program dedicated to supporting the work of traditional dancers in Brooklyn.
The goals of Folk Feet are to identify the range of traditional dance practices represented in Brooklyn by individuals, companies, and community and social dance groups; to document these artists and their practices; and to present them to a wider public by way of concerts, showcases and workshops.
The goals of Folk Feet are to identify the range of traditional dance practices represented in Brooklyn by individuals, companies, and community and social dance groups; to document these artists and their practices; and to present them to a wider public by way of concerts, showcases and workshops.
Folk Feet public programming, fieldwork and documentation is shaped by annual themes such as Teaching Traditional Dance; Immigration and Diaspora; and Circle, Line and Square: The Shapes of Social dance. This year’s theme, Folk Feet on Fifth, centers on place: the neighborhoods of Sunset Park and Bay Ridge.
Click here for Upcoming Folk Feet Events
Click here for Upcoming Folk Feet Events
Other ongoing Folk Feet projects include Folk Feet Dance Workshops, an online interface to help you organize your own dance class with traditional dance teachers of Brooklyn.
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.
BAC programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, the Brooklyn Delegations of the New York State Senate and New York State Assembly, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and New York City Council and its Brooklyn Delegation.Related Categories
Dance, BAC Performances, Folk / Traditional Arts, BAC Workshops, Multi-Discipline, Multi-Cultural, Traditional / Culturally SpecificMore from Folk Feet:
YOU DANCE, WE PAY! Organize your own traditional dance workshop through Folk Feet Dance Workshops. Use BAC's Folk Feet Dance Workshops to book your own class or workshop series with Brooklyn’s ... more
NEIGHBORHOOD DANCE TRADITIONS OF SUNSET PARK AND BAY RIDGE... more
To view images, sound, and video excerpts from past Folk Feet events click on an event title.... more
Folk Feet Circle 'Round Brooklyn
Traditional Dance Workshops and Performances Presented in Partnership with NYC Parks and Recreation, Sunset Park Recreation Center... more
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