The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted not only the academic life of our students, but also the extracurricular activities that they usually participate in. Just like the hybrid learning to which Brooklyn Friends School has adapted, the dance community at BFS has also found innovative ways to continue dancing in a virtual environment. The IB Dance […]
In this year’s Dance Concert, we examine the relationship between Ayiti/Haiti and la República Dominicana/Dominican Republic through dance forms from the two nations. They share the Caribbean island of “Hispaniola,” but the countries are divided through intertwined histories of colonialism, slavery, racism, capitalism, and their continued after-life. While Haiti was the first free Black republic, […]
Violinist Claudius A. Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. – Plato Francisco V. entered the BFS eighth grade on an academic scholarship last year. His passions […]
by Jesse Phillips-Fein For 7 years, the BFS 7/8th grade dance classes have collaborated with dance programs at several public schools, including 5th graders P.S. 95 in the Bronx (Nia Love, teacher), with 9-12th graders (and alum) at Science Skills High School’s Joe-Ile-Bailar dance company (Pat Dye, director), and for the past three years with […]
Our third and fourth graders engaged in two fun and unplugged activities (no computers!) to learn about loops and functions in technology class this week. In third grade, students learned that computers are really good at repeating a task over and over again without ever needing to stop for a snack, use the bathroom, or […]
This year’s dance concert on March 6 & 7 explores social justice as well as South Asian dance, paying tribute to Indian choreographers Chandralekha and Akram Khan, while also giving voice to the Black Lives Matter movement here at home. “We’re exploring how we create freedom and liberation through our bodies, with a lens on […]
A Truly Phenomenal Woman BFS Dance Concert 1989 With Maya Angelou’s passing last week, let’s go back 25 years to 1989, the year which saw the creation and first performance of “A Truly Phenomenal Woman” at the BFS Dance Concert. This short dance was set to Maya Angelou’s poem “Phenomenal Woman.” Choreographed by Monique N. […]
Dance Concert Rehearsal, probably 1998 Digitizing much of the BFS dance department’s video collection for the BFS Archives video collection yielded unidentified rehearsal videos and one music concert video. Most of these videos seem to have been created after 2000. One dance concert rehearsal video seems to be from 1992 or 1998: that video was […]
1988 Once Upon A Mattress – Shy From the 1988 BFS musical production of Once Upon A Mattress comes the song “Shy” in which Princess Winnifred the Woebegone expresses her true nature as she tries to find Prince Dauntless the Drab for the very first time. And this after she swam the moat to get […]
Always fun to find playbills from BFS theatrical performances, so we are making some available as they emerge from the school’s archives and from personal collections. While more playbills are in the archives, we have scanned only a few programs from the personal collections of The Price Family and The Garrell Family at this […]
