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Mickey Sakai & Rokafella talk Storytelling Through Dance with Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen
Mickey Sakai, founder and leader of our Next Level Dancers & legendary B-girl Rokafella talk Storytelling through Dance as part of the Momma's Hip Hop Kitchen "In Her Shoes" web series, framed as a sacred ...
Next Level Dancers in Step it Up Semi-Finals! May 4th @ 6pm watch & vote
Next Dancers is participating in DYCD's annual Step It Up competition, which will "showcase the power and influence of youth voice. Through social campaigns and dance performances of all genres, young people (ages 10–21) will ...
Next Level Dancers release “Not Your Average Fairy Tale” in weekly segments
In honor of Women's History month, Next Level Dancers will release their fall/winter 2020-21 hip-hop performance Not Your Average Fairy Tale in "chapters" every Friday in March, at 5:15pm Live on Youtube. The content will ...
The New Normal is anything but … young women coping with Quarantine
The Program for Girls & Young Women's Spring 2020 semester — like everything else — was hijacked by Covid-19. But our dance staff and a majority of our dancers continued to create and learn choreography ...
Current Program Offerings (During Covid-19)
The Program for Girls & Young Women is open, if mostly virtual! As we did in the fall of 2020, we will continue to offer a range of artistic and leadership programs this spring -- the ...
Mid-winter Recess Arts Workshop
There are still a few spaces available in our free Mid-Winter Recess Arts Workshop, which will meet Tuesday, February 18-Friday, February 21, from 10am-5pm. In keeping with February’s focus on love and also Black History ...
Program for Girls & Young Women presents: IDENTITY, a youth showcase
On Saturday, January 25th, 2020 the Program for Girls & Young Women at New Settlement presents IDENTITY, a showcase of awesome talent featuring our Next Level Dancers, Silence Out Loud poets and media-makers, and Project ...
Free arts, leadership and wellness programs for girls & young women start January 27th
The Program for Girls & Young Women will hold Orientation for our Spring 2020 semester on Wednesday, January 22nd from 6:30-7:30pm, at 1514 Townsend Avenue, Community Room 1. Come sign up, meet teachers, see what's ...
Silence Out Loud is back and better than ever!
We are super excited to be bringing back Silence Out Loud, our poetry and spoken work workshop with fierce (and funny) slam poet Roya Marsh at the helm. And for the second time, the workshop ...
Free After-School & Saturday Programs for girls start September 23rd
The Program for Girls & Young Women will hold Orientation for Fall 2019 classes on Monday, September 23rd, 2019 from 6:30-7:30pm, at 1514 Townsend Avenue, Community Room 1. Come sign up, meet teachers, see what's ...