1. Dancing to Harmony Workshop SOLD OUT January 19th 2:00pm – 5:00pm FREE The Pillar: Racial harmony, diversity, community A diverse group of 25 kids from New York’s Lower East Side will participate in a facilitated group discussion to tell President Obama their dreams for racial harmony, diversity and community and how dancing together can help realize those dreams. The discussion will be interspersed with short performance pieces by 4 dance groups: African, Capoeira, Korean, and Turkish/Kurdish.. A choreographer will create a short dance piece based on themes from the discussion. The kids, the dancers and life sized puppets will all learn the dance and perform it to live music. The dance will be videotaped and a 5 minute video piece on the entire event will be broadcast on our website.
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