Dance/NYC celebrates Dance in Brooklyn
Video Campaign Spotlights B’klyn Community Leaders, Local Residents
Dance/NYC, an organization dedicated to promoting the knowledge, appreciation, practice and performance of dance in the metropolitan area, has released a NEW YORKERS FOR DANCE video campaign spotlighting local residents, community leaders and artists in Brooklyn. This is the latest in a series of borough-specific campaigns by Dance/NYC that celebrates dance’s role in advancing local vibrancy.
“I am a New Yorker for Dance,” says New York City Councilmember Stephen Levin. “I see firsthand the joy, passion and discipline that dance brings to young people throughout New York City.”
Twenty-eight Brooklyn residents are featured in Dance/NYC’s NEW YORKERS FOR DANCE video campaign, each providing a personal statement on why dance matters to them and to their community. Local Brooklyn participants include Stephanie Hughley, the vice president of Education and Humanities at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Andrea Miller, the artistic director of Gallim Dance; and Brooklyn b-boy Major King, among others.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.