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Al Nujoom is a New Jersey-based Palestinian folkloric debkah troupe founded in 2005 and led by Ramzi Zdouq, who has called Paterson his home for nearly 3 years. Many of Nujoom’s members are originally... more
Alberto Gonzalez - Panamanian dances
Alberto Gonzalez is director of the Brooklyn-based Panamanian dance ensemble Conjunto Nuevo Milenio. Born in Colón, Panama, he started dancing at age five and later joined the Panamanian Ballet Folkló... more
Since the start of her career, Azza has been a featured dancer in all of New York's top Arab nightclubs, including The Nile, Cedars of Lebanon, Mofeta's, and Ibis. Based in Brooklyn, she dances at man... more
BAC’s Arts in Education programs strive to enhance the study of all art forms in our schools while supporting artists in their contribution to the culture of our community. We seek teaching artists... more
Brighten Ballet and Folk Dance Company
Artistic Director and Founder Irina Roizin and Brighton Ballet's dancers are former soloists from the Kirov Ballet, the Bolshoi Theater, and the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater. The company has appear... more
Chrisafo Madimenos - Greek line dance
Chrisafo Madimenos, an excellent teacher of Greek social dance, weaves lessons about the aesthetics and meaning of dances into her classes. The Brooklyn-raised Chrisafo spent summers in Greece with he... more
Circle ‘Round Brooklyn 2, a participatory dance event, held from 3 – 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 17, at Fort Greene Park, featured performances by soloists and troupes, whose traditional dance forms relate... more
This Year's Theme: Earth Stomping Dance Traditions FEATURING: JUXTAPOWER, SOUTH AFRICAN SONG AND DANCE Founder Sduduzo Ka-Mbili and Michael Nyonende Forde perform and teach Zulu dance (traditio... more
Sunday, October 8, 2006 Tobacco Warehouse, Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park, in DUMBO 2:00-5:00p.m.
Classroom Management Stories and Strategies from the Field
This seminar, presented by BAC's Arts in Education program, is aimed at teaching artists of all disciplines. Many teaching artists are faced with the challenge of maintaining an attentive and engag... more
Cliff Matias - Native American dance
Cliff Matias is the founder and director of Redhawk Native American Arts Council, a Brooklyn-based organization established in 1995 that promotes and presents Native American arts and culture. Each J... more
Darrah Carr, artistic director of Darrah Carr Dance, has choreographed for and performed with Broadway productions and dance companies at home and abroad. She learned traditional Irish dance in her na... more
Don Coy - American square dance
Don Coy, who made his way to Brooklyn from his native Louisville, Kentucky, in 1990, has trained as a square dancer caller since 1974. Don is also an expert square dance teacher, and country guitar pl... more
One of the most creative and successful Irish dancers, Donny Golden, is a North American step-dancing champion and a National Heritage Award winner. He has choreographed shows for his troupe at Radio ... 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
Folk Feet is made possible, in part, by Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and The New York Community Trust.
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
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
By the age of 3 Jehan was already dreaming of becoming a bellydancer, having been introduced to the art form via the star dancers of Egyptian golden-age cinema. Pursuing the study of raqs sharqi or... more
Kaina Quenga - Polynesian dances
Kaina Quenga grew up in Hilo, HawaiI, where she studied and performed hula— “dance” in Hawaiian. She moved to Brooklyn in 2001, where she performs and also teaches Hawaiian cultural traditions and Tah... more
LaUra was born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and comes from a family of traditional artists. Her mother, a professional dancer, was the granddaughter of one of the greatest Uzbeki poets of all time, Hamza ... more
Layla began studying Middle Eastern dance at the age of 19 at Serena Studios in New York City. Her passion for Middle Eastern dance led her to study with such masters of the form as Yousry Sharif, Ram... more
Leonardo Ivan Dominguez - Dominican merengue and folk dance
Leonardo Ivan Dominguez has been working for more than 35 years as an educator of Dominican folk traditions. Born on the outskirts of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Ivan was learning to drum by ag... more
Darrah Carr - Irish dance Don Coy - American square dance Yasser Darwish - Egyptian folk dances Leonardo Ivan Dominguez - Dominican merengue and folk dance Sherley St. Fort - Haitian dance Albert... more
Melinda Gonzalez - Puerto Rican bomba
Melinda Gonzalez dances bomba, Puerto Rico’s oldest native art form. An Afro-Puerto Rican dance, bomba involves improvised steps and a live drummer. But in bomba, it is the dancer, not the percussioni... more
Nicole Macotsis, Folk Arts Associate
As Folk Arts Associate, Nicole primarily manages the expansion and development of Folk Feet, a fieldwork driven documentation and presentation project on traditional dance in Brooklyn. Project manager... more
3Bean Children's Theater Afro Brazil Arts All American Square Dancers Pamella Allen Raquel Almazon Dimitre Atanasov Paulette Attie Frisner Augustine Kevin Augustine Peter Barnett BCAT Cente... more
Sunday, July 13 & 20, 2008 Folk Feet Workshops: Arab Social Dance Arab American Heritage Park Festival, at Prospect Park Join BAC for two Sundays of dance workshops that cap-off the Arab arts progr... more
One of New York’s leading Arab dance artists, Ranya has performed and taught on 4 continents and locally at Lincoln Center’s Out-of-Doors Festival, the American Museum of Natural History, Wave Hill (a... more
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