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Image Source: Green Space There once was a place called “Queens.” In the early 2000s, this borough became home to a growing — and growing — community of choreographers and dancers. By April 2007, it was a hotspot, and Green Space Blooms, a festival celebrating local dance and music talent, was born in LIC. Just…
Image Source: Facebook/Electric Shaman First Brazil battled India. Soon Jamaica will take on Spain before Africa goes up against Peru. But right now, all eyes — and ears — are trained on the Korea-Greece competition at Flushing Town Hall on April 19. Vong Pak’s Korean Drum and Dance Troupe will rock the house with Korean music…
Image Source: The Dance Enthusiast Featuring more than 100 million species, insects represent over 90 percent of multicellular life on earth. On April 14 at Flushing Town Hall, KINEMATIK Dance Theater brings the bustling world of bugs, bees, ants, spiders and flies to the stage with the premiere of INSEKTA. This dazzling array of the intricate and complex microorganisms that…
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The JHO is starting its second season with an opening performance on December 18th@ the Community United Methodist Church81-10 35th Ave. Winnie Nieh is our featured soloist. Works by Handel, Bach, Suk, Haydn, Mozart will be performed. Concert will begin at 7:30, followed by a reception in the church library. There is a suggested donation of $10/5 at the door. We had a very successful first year. We have more than doubled in size since last year and average around 140 at each concert. Help celebrate our second season in Jackson Heights.
Update on the Jackson Heights Community Orchestralooking forward to enroll my grandkids in bomba and plena dancing. I would love to know about your future events /shows. thank you
QNYC Event Highlight: Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba y PlenaAbsolutely amazing, outstanding, superb skills and accomplishments !!!
Steinway Village: How pianos shaped the history of AstoriaBrooklyn never aspired to be cool. Became cool because it was a dynamic borough. Not because anyone proclaimed it as such. Queens is dynamic too. Kind of tiresome hearing people wondering when Queens is actually going to flip and become a true hipster destination. Astoria has been cool for years not because of Queens Kickshaw (which is cool) or influx of white kids but because it is the last true European neighborhood in the city. db
“Brooklyn’s not cool anymore! Yeah, it’s going to be Queens next” So says Yeasayer