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Sherley St. Fort - Haitian dance
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
How to Organize a Dance Workshop
Learn about the workshop teachers and dance forms.Our roster of traditional dancers who teach through Folk Feet Dance Workshops have been selected from BAC’s ongoing Folk Feet project for their commit... 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
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 Tamara Chernyakhovska - Ukrainian folk dance Don Coy - American square dance Yasser Darwish - Egyptian folk dances Nadia Dieudonné - Haitian folklore Leonardo Ivan Domin... 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
Multicultural Workshops: Greek Dance
Join dancer Chrisafo Madimenos at this free workshop presented by Young Dancers in Repertory, organized through BAC's Folk Feet Dance Workshops program. Salam Arabic Lutheran Church 345 Ovington A... more
Nadia Dieudonné - Haitian folklore
Nadia Dieudonné has a lifetime of experience in traditional Haitian dance. By the age of 12 years she was performing with the well known Haitian folk singer and activist Myriam Dorismé. Today, after... 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
Rayhana's dramatic and sensual style incorporates the influences of all the artists she has studied under. She interprets the subtleties and drama of Middle Eastern music, mixing different styles such... more
Rita Silva - Brazilian orixá movements
Rita Silva was born in Salvador, Bahia, in Northeastern Brazil, and brought up amid Afro-Brazilian traditions. An accomplished dancer and musician, Rita has performed with dance companies throughout B... more
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
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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
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