·Director's Greeting

·Share the Love of Dance

·Dance Parade welcomes Aladdin

·Why we dance

·Support our Mission & get Perks

·Get your Official 2019 T-Shirt

·Video: Collective Effervescence

 

 

John Dalton

·Community Boards 2 and 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Dance Aficionados

 

New York City's largest dance event is just two weeks away: The 13th Annual Dance Parade and Festival. We will begin at 21st & Broadway by honoring indigenous dance with a Native American Circle dance. Following the ribbon cutting at 1pm, Grand Marshals Louis Mofsie, Bill T. Jones, Baayork Lee and DJ Dara unleash 10,000 dancers who'll shimmy, swagger and sway to over 100 unique styles of dance and culture!

 

Experience Burning Man energy with Kostume Kult's Pirate Ship--Get weird wild and wonderful with the House of Yes or mix it up with your Salsa, Ballroom or Hustler moves. Try on something new like African, Contemporary, Majorette, Irish or Korean--  It's a participatory parade, free to register and there's something for everyone!  

 

Aren't feeling up to the 1.4mile jubilee down through Union Square, Unviersity Place and across East 8th / Saint Marks? Watch it all from the Grandstand or experience DanceFest and the After Party.

 

Hope to see you out supporting this MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corn seed plantings represent a way to acknowledge the 10,000 year history of the occupation of Manahatta and its adjacent land by Native American people who call themselves the Lenape. We will gather at the Campos Garden on East 12th Street -- long ago within a low lying marsh --along with Dance Parade's Community Engagement youth from the neighboring PS34 Middle School to participate in a ceremony to remember the Lenape people's long stewardship on an island that they never ceded to the European colonists that invaded it. Campos Garden urban farmers Christopher Batenhurst, long a professional dancer, and Alexia Weidler will welcome us as guests to the circle plot in their Children's Garden.

 

This year Dance Parade will open it's 13th Annual event with a Native American Circle Dance. The Dance Parade theme MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE recognizes and embodies both the latest refugees and immigrants alongside the original inhabitants of Manhattan now returning from their displacement and erasure to stand against hate rhetoric and hate crimes built around false narratives around walls, "criminals" and "invaders." Says Executive Director, Greg Miller, "When we honor Native American dance, we acknowledge that we all share this land and that we are ALL immigrants."

 

      

                                                                 Team Coordination Lead        Team Coordination Lead

 

In the words of our Team Coordination Leads Henya and Jessii, "One of the best things in life is volunteering to make a difference -- And bringing dance to the streets, hearts and minds of New York City with a band of lolligagging movers and shakers is a funtastic way to do it!"

 

Volunteer benefits include a being fed throughout a 6hr shift, a 2019 Crew T-Shirt and free entry to the After Party at nublu (7-10pm 151 Avenue C)

 

All volunteers are requested to attend one of two all hands meetings:

 

 

The registration period to register an organization is over but if you want to join a group you can and, (if they're OPEN to it), you can register right up until Parade Day May 18th. There will be 170 groups presenting over 100 unqiue styles of dance. To be in the parade, EVERYONE, must register and individuals can do so here.

 

Culminating at Avenue A, DanceFest runs from 3 to 7pm and caps the day off with 5 performance stages, dance teaser lessons and a dance party.  Support this magnificent day of dance by joining as a volunteer, donating or joining the actual parade:

 

 

 

 

 

 

By getting Grandstand Tickets you'll be getting more than getting the best seat for the biggest dance event in the city--As 100% of the ticket proceeds go to support the parade, festival and our education programs, you'll be supporting our artist's equity, inclusion and diversity, our core values!

 

The Grandstand is located in the intersection of 8th Street and 4th Avenue, just slightly east of Astor Plaza (and a stone's throw away from the N, R, 6 Subways and 10minute walk to DanceFest in Tompkins Square Park after the Parade!).  Don't delay, these tickets will sell out!

 

 

   

Our Mission is to promote dance as an expressive and unifying art form by showcasing all forms of dance, educating the general public about the opportunities to experience dance, and celebrating diversity of dance in New York City by sponsoring a yearly city-wide dance parade and dance festival.