ShowcaseFolk Feet Workshops: Arab Social Dance
07/20/08
2:00PM - 6:00PM
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Brooklyn Maqam Begins: Dance and Music from the Arab World
Presented by BAC Folk Arts, Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival is a rare opportunity to experience the remarkable variety of Arab music traditions that flourish throughout the metro area! WHEN: Su... more
Brooklyn’s Maqam: Reinventing Arab Music in the Borough
Presented by BAC Folk Arts, Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival is a rare opportunity to experience the remarkable variety of Arab music traditions that flourish throughout the metro area! WHEN: Fri... more
Brooklyn’s Maqam: Reinventing Arab Music in the Borough
Friday, March 7 BAM Cafe at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 9:00-10:30pm
Yehezkel Zion, born in Jerusalem, is of Iraqi descent and comes from a very musically talented Baghdad family. His father was a singer and drummer and his siblings, all living in Israel, practice musi... more
Born in Lebanon, Fakhoury studied classical guitar at the Conservatoire of Lebanon. He later picked up electric guitar, inspired by Omar Khoshid, famous for integrating electric guitar into the stand... more
CASYM Steel Pan Orchestra performs the rhythms and sounds of the steel drum that are an integral part of the rich cultural heritage of the Caribbean Islands of Trinidad and Tobago. CASYM has performed... 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 Afro Dominican and Haitian Dance Workshop
Jose Figueroa will teach the movement and rhythms of traditional dances of Haiti and Dominican Republic, such as the processional dance of gaga (rara) and the traditional drums and rhythms of Dominica... more
CIRCLE ‘ROUND BROOKLYN 2 is sponsered by Commerce Bank and is supported by major grants from Mertz Gilmore Foundation and Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust. BAC Folk Arts is made possible, in part, wit... 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
Circle 'Round Dance Performances in Sunset Park
An Afternoon of Participatory Dances in the Park! Circle 'Round Brooklyn series culminating event! Part of Sunset Park International Family Day Thursday, June 4th 2009, 2-4pm 41-44th Street and ... more
Circle 'Round Korean Dance and Drumming Workshop
Vongku Pak will teach and perform bongsan mask dance, using the janngu (hour glass drum) as musical accompaniment. The Bongsan Mask Dance-Drama originated in Bongsan, located in Hwanghae Province in ... more
Circle 'Round Lebanese and Palestinian Debke Workshop
Sheren Attal and Ramzi El Edlibi teach basic steps of debke. Debke is a popular traditional line dance from the Levantine region of the Middle East and performed enthusiastically at social gatherings ... more
Sunday, October 8, 2006 Tobacco Warehouse, Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park, in DUMBO 2:00-5:00 pm Circle dance is the oldest dance form dating back thousands of yea... 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
Friday, March 28 Tarboosh Cafe 9:00pm-Midnight
Although the administrators of brooklynartscouncil.org will attempt to ensure that event descriptions and dates below are valid, Brooklyn Arts Council will not be held responsible for the content of a... more
BOOK YOUR SPACE FOR WALKING TOURS OF THE BOROUGH'S ARAB NEIGHBORHOODS. The Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival drew many of its talented musicians and its inspiration from two thriving Arab neighbor... more
Culture and Dances of Scandinavia
Folk Feet on Fifth community partner, The Norwegian Folkdance Society, presents Culture and Dances of Scandinavia. Saturday, February 21 10 am - Noon FREE Sporting Club Gjoa 850-62nd St, ... more
DanceAfrica 2010: African Rhythms/American Echoes
Presented by Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Click here for more info WHEN: Friday, May 28, 7:30pm; Saturday, May 29, 2pm & 7:30pm; Sunday, May 30 & Mon... more
Dancing in Detail: Brooklyn’s Traditional Dances in Practice
“Dancing in Detail: Brooklyn’s Traditional Dances in Practice, 2007-2008” presents each dancer in a brief interview followed by a close, on-the-body dance demonstration. The video was made to create a... 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
Dena El Saffar, of Iraqi and American heritage, was exposed to Arabic music in the suburbs of Chicago, where she grew up attending Iraqi gatherings with her family. She began learning the violin at th... more
From Athens, Greece, Mikelis is both an ‘ud and piano performer. He holds a B.M from Berklee College of Music in jazz studies (2003), a Masters in Jazz Performance from the William Paterson Universit... more
Diverse Traditions: Arab Folk Music in Regional Expression
Saturday, March 29 Alwan for the Arts 9:00 -11:00pm
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
FOLK FEET FIGHT FOR DUMBO Last year BAC's Folk Feet dancers knocked out audiences at DUMBO FIGHT NIGHT, the DUMBO Improvement District's first annual fundraiser. Team "Folk Feet" has been invited bac... more
Eddie Soubhi Ibn Farjallah Kochakhi was born and raised in Brooklyn, in a Syrian Catholic family on Atlantic Avenue. His sister brought him his first dumbek from Aleppo when he was ten. He came to be... more
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