Our Social Media guru Chauncey recently fashioned a chat with his Dance Parade colleague DJ McDonald, this year’s Lead Curator for DanceFest, the festival that immediately follows the parade every year in Tompkins Square Park. The DanceFest 2013 program was comprised of four stages in [...] Read more »
DANCE PARADE AND DANCEFEST 2013 Dance Parade New York’s theme for its Seventh Annual Dance Parade and DanceFest was Unity through Dance, and while usually adversarial Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York City Council agreed in separate Proclamations, the value for Dance Parade on Saturday, [...] Read more »
Dance Parade, Inc. is a volunteer supported non-profit organization! It is the dedication, expertise and rhythm of these brave few that are solely responsible for the success of the event and all the background work that goes on all year long leading up to the parade and festival. [...] Read more »
Without much fanfare, here is a gallery featuring photos taken by Dance Parade’s own Jaime Jaget while stationed at our Grandstand located in Astor Place. Parade groups danced down Broadway and made a left onto St. Mark’s before the final stretch into Tompkins Square Park [...] Read more »
WE’VE GOT IT ALL SET UP FOR YOU TO RACK UP YOUR FOURSQUARE POINTS AND TELL EVERYONE WHERE YOU ARE AND HOW MUCH FUN YOU ARE HAVING TODAY! for the Foursquare novice THE 7TH ANNUAL DANCE PARADE & FESTIVAL for the Foursquare purists KICK [...] Read more »
WEATHER FORECAST 73 AND SUNNY! HAPPY DANCE PARADE DAY! 2013 PARADE ORDER *DANCERS CHECK IN AT 21ST/BROADWAY *VEHICLES CHECK IN AT 22ND/BROADWAY 1 Thrill The World NYC (Michael Jackson) 2 East 54th Street Recreation Center (Michael Jackson) 3 Von King Cultural Center (Michael Jackson) 4 [...] Read more »
Tompkins Square Park, the destination of the parade at Avenue A and Saint Marks Place, comes alive with choreographed performances, workshops and social dance–all free to the public. This year there will be a total of 3 stages of carefully curated expressions of dance: A [...] Read more »
Hello squad members! We’re only a day away from Dance Parade and we couldn’t be more excited to have you on the force!! So many of you showed up for last nights meeting and reached out to me on the side by phone and [...] Read more »
You are invited to participate in a pre-parade protest at the Time Warner Cable retail location adjacent to the New York Dance Parade: Saturday, May 18 from 11:00am-12 46 East 23rd, New York, NY 10010 (between Park Ave S. and Broadway) Arts supporters [...] Read more »
How would YOU like to wear THIS SHIRT?? Volunteer to make the Dance Parade happen with beautiful energy and color! We seek a few good men and women to help order the parade? Sign this Volunteer Agreement and Check in with DJ McDonald on 21st [...] Read more »
Pass this on. OK Everyone! After one attempt at making a splash across social media and Facebook, we are at it again. Friday, May 17th at NOON we will have another DANCE PARADE VIRTUAL FLASH MOB! Copy and paste this link onto your [...] Read more »
WBAI 99.5 FM will be covering the festivities from Tompkins Square Park 4:00-6:00pm, check it out on your smart phone devices via the free app ‘TuneIn’ or ‘PacificaRadio’ and save WBAI as a preset. Hosts Jeannie Hopper and Reggie Johnson will be interviewing DanceAfrica founder [...] Read more »
From the Soundboard #114 [pitch show] by Reggiej on Mixcloud From the Soundboard is a show that usually focuses on concerts regardless of genre. Artist and/or group perfecting the art of “call and response” with its audience. On Wednesday, May 15, NYC Dance Parade returns [...] Read more »
Keep An iOUT4 Keep an iOUT4 is a new series of posts that will more frequently appear as we get closer and closer to The 7th Annual Dance Parade & Festival highlighting major attractions, unusual expectations and exciting back stories of people and, in this [...] Read more »
One of the most unexpected highlights of the 2011 parade happened much later than the parade itself. Naturally procured for permission before this all took place, a very unique film was being recorded on the streets of Manhattan the same day that The [...] Read more »
Here is a mix by Jools Palmer, one half of the dynamic duo including Mandy Graves, that host a weekly residency at The Manhattan Monster every Thursday night in the ‘bassment’ with special guest DJs, hosts and performances! The party is the place [...] Read more »
Kervyn Mark is pillar in the deep soulful house music scene in New York City. For over 30 years he has been DJing and producing events. In 2007 he forged and brought different production groups of the soulful and deep house music scene under the umbrella [...] Read more »
DANCE PARADE JUST 9 DAYS AWAY! THE EVOLUTION OF DANCE CONTINUES CLICK TO REGISTER TODAY AND DANCE WITH ONE OF OVER 100 DANCE GROUPS IN THE 2013 PARADE! Grand Marhsals Jacqulyn Buglisi, Chuck Davis and Louie Vega headline Dance Parade by gathering 10,000 dancers of [...] Read more »
OFFICIAL DANCEFEST 2013 LINEUP Our Main Stage this year has been carefully curated to offer your eyes, mind and soul a stupendous feast that will surely take you on a journey of various styles and disciplines of dance along with an inspiring trip around the [...] Read more »
In this issue of STEPS! we will be exploring traditional dance of Bolivian Morenada. Watch out for this traditional dance in the 7th annual Dance Parade on May 18th, 2013! The Morenada (Dance of the Black Slaves) is a music and dance style from [...] Read more »