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Folk Arts Resources

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

Folk Feet

Folk Feet is made possible, in part, by Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and The New York Community Trust.

Folk Feet Dance Workshops

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: 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 on Fifth

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

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

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

Gamal Shafik

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 Ziadeh

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

Get Involved

We are always looking for dependable volunteers for BAC's film and media arts program. Volunteers should have an interest in the arts, relevant experience, and must be committed to fulfilling the ... more

Haitian dance

Sherley St. Fort - Haitian dance

Hip Hop Frontiers

Galapagos Art Space 70 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Hisham Amazigh

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

Hoofin' it in the Hood

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

Independent Filmmakers - The Power of Art

Long Island University, Spike Lee Screening Room 1 University Plaza (at Flatbush and Dekalb), Brooklyn

Independent Filmmakers – A Contemplation of Power

Long Island University, Spike Lee Screening Room 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn At Flatbush Ave and DeKalb Ave

Isaac Gutwilik

Canadian-born Gutwilik’s interest in music began at a young age when his aunt gave him a Perez Prado album and his own transistor radio. School offered him an immersion into the world of traditional J... more

Jad Lebbos

Lebbos comes from Beirut, Lebanon and learned debkah – the celebrated social line dance of the Levant- in the rural areas where it has been danced into the earth for generations. Lebbos’ debkah pract... more

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