SEE A SLIDE SHOW FROM FRIDAY NIGHT’S PERFORMANCE: The annual BFS Dance Concert on Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10, was greeted with joy, love, and rave reviews. An annual school tradition going back 39 years, the Dance Concert has the largest number of performers of any student production at the school. […]
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, […]
RESERVE TICKETS ONLINE “This year’s Middle & Upper School dance concert explores traditions and innovations from dance in the so-called Middle East,” explained Middle & Upper School Dance teacher Jesse Phillips-Fein ’97. That includes a big dose of dabkeh, a celebratory folk dance from the Levantine region. The concert also pays tribute to Beirut-based choreographer Omar […]
Middle-Upper School Dance teacher Jesse Phillips-Fein ’97 traveled as part of an impromptu relief effort to Haiti in April, 2010. She was already planning the trip to the beleaguered country with her Haitian dance teacher Peniel Guerrier, and when the earthquake struck in January BFS dance teacher Jesse Phillips-Fein ’97 and her colleagues decided not to cancel […]
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 […]
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 […]
