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 healing space for the hip-hop community of women. Mickey and Roka get real about their journeys as dancers, choreographers and […]
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 compete to raise awareness and express their opinion on various social issues. Virtual audition rounds launched back in February and […]
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 stay available after each premier, but catch it at 5:15 if you want to be a part of the “live” […]
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 while in quarantine March-June, working from video tutorials and participating in Zoom classes, and shifting the focus of the spring […]
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 majority remote, or hybrid with fully remote option, along with in-person dance. We would like to help you (or […]
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 Month, our workshop theme is “Love Thyself!” and will explore self-love, community love, and love that grows our power. The […]
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 V.I.P. play builders. While the performance does touch on mature themes connected to growing up femme/female in 2020, it should […]
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 being offered, and join us for an exciting new semester! All classes are free to the community, for youth who […]
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 will be offered in partnership with En Foco, Inc. – a non-profit that supports contemporary photographers of African, Asian, Latino, […]
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 being offered, and join us for an exciting fall semester! All classes are free to the community, for youth who […]