Brooklyn Arts Council's Folk Arts.In October, the BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL'S FOLK ARTS sponsored Circle 'Round Brooklyn, a mini-festival of performances and workshops from seven dance traditions that relate to the circle theme. The day of performances, which took place under the Brooklyn Bridge, was part of the ongoing project called Folk Feet: Celebrating Traditional Dance in Brooklyn. Circle dances, an age-old movement form that includes repetitive steps and hand-holding, are often used as a part of a social celebration or ceremony. Circle 'Round Brooklyn brought together 450 people from cultures around the world, drawing on those that reside in the borough. Among the dance styles represented at the festival were Greek Syrtos, presented by members of the Orchesis Center for Dance and Movement in Bayridge, Brooklyn; Jewish calendrical Celebratory dances; Levantine Le·vant 1 The countries bordering on the eastern Mediterranean Sea from Turkey to Egypt. Le Debkeh of Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria taught by Sheren Attal, director of the Arab American Association's Salem Debkeh youth troupe; a traditional wedding Sherpa dance from Himalayan Nepal introduced by the United Sherpa Association; Swedish children's dances by Karin and Peter Norrman of the Swedish Folkdancers of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ; American square dance led by a master caller for Brooklyn's Al'e'Mo Squares Square Dance Club Square dance clubs are the primary form for organization within the recreational activity of square dancing, and more specifically modern Western square dance. This article's focus is the modern Western square dance club, and it is understood in the context of this article that ; and African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. ring-shout from the Gullah Islands taught by Brooklyn dancer Angela Gittens. There were also three solo performances of Egyptian Dervish dervish (dûr`vĭsh), see fakir; Rumi, Jalal ad-Din. dervish In Islam, a member of a Sufi fraternity. These mystics stressed emotional aspects of devotion through ecstatic trances, dancing, and whirling. Spinning, Native American Hoop dancing, and an Afro-Brazilian invocation to Yansa, goddess of wind, thunder, and lightning. In the spring, the fourth annual Folk Feet Showcase, Circle, Line and Square: The Shapes of Social Dance, will take place March 11 at the Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts, with a day of free workshops the following week, March 18, at the Brooklyn Public Library Coordinates: The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), is the public library system of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. It is the fifth largest public library system in the United States. . See www.brooklynartscouncil.org. |
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