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Folk Feet Dance Teacher Yasser Darwish. Photo by Julienne Schaer.Meet the Teachers
Folk Feet Dance Teacher Yasser Darwish. Photo by Julienne Schaer.
Our Folk Feet teachers are experts in dances from immigrant-based traditions like Greek syrtos and Brazilian candomblé to such homegrown Brooklyn forms as urban popping and b-boying.
The following teachers are available for group workshops for a wide range of students. Solo or brief group performances can also be arranged. And all of our dancers are affiliated with ensembles suitable for longer performances, too.
Participating Folk Feet Teachers 2007-2008
The following teachers are available for group workshops for a wide range of students. Solo or brief group performances can also be arranged. And all of our dancers are affiliated with ensembles suitable for longer performances, too.
Participating Folk Feet Teachers 2007-2008
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 Folklórico...more
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 her family...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 native Ohio...more
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 player...more
Euston James , a native of Trinidad, has lived in Brooklyn since 1972. In the U.S. he has participated in West Indian carnival traditions as a dancer of calypso and limbo and as a fire-eater. His specialty is limbo, made popular in the United States...more
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 Tahitian dance...more
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 age five...more
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 percussionist, whose movements dictate the rhythm...more
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 Brazil and the world for more than 25 years...more
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 zouk...more
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 developed in the 1970s...more
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 National Folk Dance Company in Cairo...more
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