Dance Rising NYC continues promoting embodied advocacy for the dance field. In Brooklyn to Harlem for International Dance Day, bringing the dynamic energy of dance to small businesses and public spaces.
Created in partnership with cultural organizations and local businesses across the city, the 2022 Video Tour is a reminder that the dance industry is an essential part of NYC’s cultural identity. More information, including rolling venue locations and details can be found at www.dancerising.org
Formed as a grassroots collective at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dance Rising NYC has become a platform for embodied advocacy that affirms the importance of dance in all its forms. The dance sector of NYC is still in crisis after a full year of fighting for recognition as a field in need of support by the state and city during the first year of the pandemic. Dancers live in every neighborhood in the city – and this sector – filled with skilled, empathic, tenacious artists and workers – can lead a vision for the arts in New York City, one where every New Yorker can be inspired and moved by arts and culture. The Astor Place Day of Dance celebrates the industry’s tenacity and insists that dance is a vital performing art — one that shapes NYC’s identity as a cultural center.
The 2022 Video Tour launched in partnership with two Brooklyn cafes – LOCOCO and The Bakery on Bergen – Dance Rising celebrates the survival of small businesses in NYC in the aftermath of the pandemic, and on International Dance Day, Bakery on Bergen and Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem will both be featuring the videos of over 400 dancers.
In a demonstration of unity amongst the arts, cultural and public spaces: Marcus Garvey Park, The Hispanic Society Museum & Library, Bronx Arts and Dance (BAAD), Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning will all host large scale projections of over 400 dancers on their outer walls, bringing the diversity and energy of dancers to New York City residents.
Now, in 2022, marking the second anniversary of the commencement of the pandemic, Dance Rising is teaming up with small businesses and cultural institutions across the city to produce large-scale projections in empty retail windows, on walls, screens and online. Collectively, these videos will re-saturate the city with dance, offering New Yorkers the energy of this resilient art form as our city rebuilds. (online content available at www.dancerising.org).
In a comment about partnering with Bakery on Bergen, Dance Rising founding member Joya Powell, director of Movement of the People Dance Company, says, “Dance has always been a part of the Vann family. I remember dancing in Akim’s father and mother’s, Teddy and Wanling Vann’s, basement in Brooklyn at a very young age, or dancing at Vann family birthday parties. We have grown into phenomenal Black women business owners, true to our NYC roots, making our fathers proud. It is a powerful statement when dance and small local businesses become collaborators. Thank you Akim, creator and owner of The Bakery on Bergen, for sharing your (wall) space with your dancing NYC community, for supporting MOPDC, Dance Rising NYC, and for your visionary activist practices involving community and care.”
Kristina Burmudez, director of Project.KB and new member of the Dance Rising Collective says: “It is really exciting when we have individual small businesses stepping up and supporting Dance in order to enrich our communities, build awareness and create space for advocacy. As we continue building momentum, I look forward to seeing how much arts workers and other small businesses can accomplish together. Thank you Hans from LOCOCO for always supporting Brownsville-based Project.KB, now Dance Rising, and continuously working towards building community in LOCOCO’s neighborhood, East Williamsburg.”
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Indoor projections in coffee shops: 60-minute video loop February 18-19
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