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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
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
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
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
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
Deborah Strauss - Yiddish dance
Deborah Strauss (violin, accordion, vocals, dance) is one of the finest of the contemporary klezmer instrumentalists and a well-known Yiddish dance instructor. She frequently appears as a featured dan... 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
Euston James - Trinidadian limbo and calypso
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 speci... more
Sherley St. Fort - Haitian dance
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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