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Welcome to Dancing in the Streets temporary page as our website is currently under reconstruction.

Since 1984 Bronx-based Dancing in the Streets, continues to build a legacy developing movement-based projects through long term initiatives, integrating rigorous inquiry, artistic exploration, deep community engagement, and the nurturing of NYC’s performing artists.

Over the years our work has generated over 650 dance commissions, site specific dance works, block parties, dance cyphers, dance workshop series and multi-media pieces on the streets, stages and screens of NYC.

Most of our events have been free.

Since 2015 our primary program has been It's Showtime NYC! cultivating creative excellence within the next generation of NYC’s street/club dancers by providing unique experiences connected to careers within the dance and performing arts world. We advocate for, and highlight the recognition of, street/club dances as seminal American artforms and folkloric movement cultures within the performing arts sector. Our vision is being a leading talent incubator for street/club dancers in the NYC metro area by investing in the dancers’ creative maturity; building community; creating space for future ambassadors in street/club dance, spreading the dance forms through schools, stages, studios and the screen.

Please visit It’s Showtime NYC's website for more information.

TEAM:

Erica Ruben Hadzic, Executive Director, Dancing in the Streets

Cal Hunt, Artistic and Program Director, It’s Showtime NYC!

Cheyenne Bosco, Development and Outreach Manager, Dancing in the Streets

Christopher “Venxm” Brathwaite, Development and Administrative Assistant

Dancing in the Streets’ treasured archives now live at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

An evolution and a move to the South Bronx, positioned the organization, and former Executive Director Aviva Davidson, to passionately focus on the social and street dance cultures and forms pioneered and practiced in the Bronx. Dancing in the Streets partnered with hip hop, breakin, litefeet, vogue, flexN, poppin and other street dance pioneers to present their curated projects capturing an essential era of the Bronx’s hip hop revolution.

In 2015 the Mayoral administration asked Dancing in the Streets to develop a program for NYC's street dancers who were busking illegally on the subways. The goal was to provide a professional development program that would provide self-taught street and subway dancers access to NYC's cultural economy. It’s Showtime NYC was developed and now serves as Dancing in the Streets’ primary program.

Presenting Partners include:

Abrons Art Center, American Museum of Natural History, Apollo Theater, Asia Society, Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance*, Bronx Pro Group*, Brooklyn Borough President, Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education*, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, CityParks Dance, City Parks Foundation’s Hook Productions, Dance Theater Etc., FIAF, 52 People for Progress*, Friends of Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, Herbert Von King Cultural Arts Center, Good Shepherd/The Beacon, HarlemStage, Jamaica Center for the Arts, Japan Society, The Kitchen, LayeRhythm, Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center / Queens Library, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Lincoln Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mark Morris Dance Group, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, The Little Island, The New York Public Library, Openhousenewyork, Partnerships for Parks, Red Hook Community Justice Center, Red Hook Initiative, SoBRO*, The Shed, SummerStage, Symphony Space, Wave Hill*, Westchester Square BID*, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Works & Process at Avery Fisher Hall, World Financial Center Arts & Events

*Bronx Organizations

Historic Productions:

Notable site-specific productions were commissioned and featured works by Meredith Monk, Ann Carlson, Douglas Dunn, Eiko & Koma, Joanna Haigood, Steve Koplowitz, Tere O’Connor, Elizabeth Streb, Reggie Wilson, and Yasuko Yakoshi. A few spectacular sites included the massive Port Authority Grain Terminal in Red Hook, the Tobacco Warehouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Fort Jay on Governor’s Island, Hangar B at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field.

Select Bronx-based programs included:

The South Bronx Culture Trail preserved the remarkable history of the neighborhoods that gave rise to mambo, salsa, and hip hop co-produced with an encyclopedia of cultural figure heads and fellow Bronx institutions including Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education and BAAD.
Paseo, created by the Bessie-Award winning choreographer Joanna Haigood, was a traveling, site-specific work celebrating the rich South Bronx Latin music and dance history, created in collaboration with Music Director Bobby Sanbria.
The Bronx Revolution and the Birth of Hip Hop, Directed by Joanna Haigood in collaboration with five hip hop pioneers.

Graphic Cyphers by Anne Nguyen

Awards & Recognitions

Arts and Business Council Encore Award
Municipal Arts Society Certificate of Merit
The Doris C. Freedman Award from the City of New York for “greatly enriching the public environment.”
It's Showtime NYC! was the first resident street-dance company of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
2020 It's Showtime NYC nominated for Bessie Award for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer
The Bronx Times named Aviva Davidson, former Executive & Artistic Director of Dancing in the Streets, one of the 25 Most Influential Women of the Bronx 2014
Bessie Award to choreographer Joanna Haigood for Paseo “for an outstanding production of work stretching the boundaries of traditional form.”

To visit our previous website containing select Bronx event archives visit

archive.dancinginthestreets.org and https://www.youtube.com/@DancingintheSts/videos

Thank you to our Board of Directors for their wisdom, support, heart and commitment.

Victoria Rosenwald, Acting President & Treasurer

Rosa Aliberti, Secretary

Samir Hall

Christina Hayes

Sean Cottman

John Rankin

Lamar David Mackson

Erica Hadzic

Consultants

Jared Fischer, Grant Writer

Lynn Wichern, Financial Advisor

Aprio, CPA

A Brief History

Founded in 1984 by Elise Bernhardt, Dancing in the Streets has been a pioneer, producing dance performances throughout the NYC metropolitan area. In its early years the organization produced and presented over 550 free public performances by over 300 contemporary artists, fostering site-specific work as a public art form across New York City, the U.S. and internationally.

Your tax-deductible gift supports our work with the next generation of pioneers, visionaries and culture bearers; the lifeblood of NYC

It's Showtime NYC! is a program of Dancing in the Streets, with funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Foot Locker Foundation, LayeRhythm, Hyde and Watson Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thanks to Materials for the Arts.

It’s Showtime NYC! is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

It’s Showtime NYC! is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Dancing in the Streets is verified for Gold Transparency on Candid, for publicly sharing our 501 c3’s data.

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