We are Born Dancing.
We are a New York based nonprofit founded on the belief that people of all ages and abilities should have access to every aspect of dance.
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New Dance Video! Performed by some of our awesome dancers, set to the beautiful cover of Run by Josh Groban and Sarah McLachlin.
From our homes and backyards we got together and created this DANCE CHAIN video during the NYS shutdown. The dance was passed from one dancer to the next and each dancer added their own movement sequence.
Dance Productions
Born Dancing creates one-of-a-kind dance performances featuring dancers of all ages with and without disabilities.
Education and Apprenticeship Programs
Born Dancing offers dance education and apprenticeship programs for underserved Students with Disabilities and High-Needs Students. We provide students with real-world dance performance and production experiences, apprenticeships to learn job and social skills, and internships in performing arts production and related fields to facilitate the participation and employment of people with disabilities and dance/theater production. Students with disabilities or high-needs are given the opportunity to take Dance or Production classes with performing arts professionals in immersive project-based classes and rehearsals. Student-dancers perform on stage with our company dancers while the student-apprentices assist backstage in Stage Management, Costume Design, Lighting Design, and Videography.
“Born Dancing has been my absolute favorite dance/life/everything experience to date.”
Enjoy video EXCERPTS and photos from some of our PERFORMANCES
Here’s what five productions worth of dancing, teaching, learning, and joy looks like, celebrating all our fantastic Born Dancing dancers, students, and artists. Music: 'I Was Born' by Hanson © 2019 Born Dancing, Inc. Choreography ©2016-2019 Melissa van Wijk
Second movement of Grey. Choreography: Melissa van Wijk / Dancers: Madeline Charles, Madison Ferris / Music: Waterways by Ludovico Einaudi / Video: Zarah Cabañas.
PHOTOS
more VIDEOS
Limits showcases the dancers performing site-specific choreography all over New York City. This video was part of Wasted Love and played during the performances across the stage behind the dancers.
Get to know our 2017 dance students from PS153 and our production apprentices from Gigi's Playhouse.
Take a look behind the scenes to see what went on in rehearsals and in tech for Wasted Love, and meet Misty Boyce, whose music was the inspiration for this multi-media one-act.
Spin 1/2
"Spin is the rotation to return to the original state; it is an intrinsic property of all elementary particles." DANCERS: Lisa Clementi, Ilanah Everett, Madison Ferris, Basak, Beste, Nicole Sclafani. CHOREOGRAPHY: Melissa van Wijk (with student-dancers’ contributions) MUSIC: 'Justice' by Patrick Doyle LIGHTING: Michael Cole | COSTUMES: Stacy Jansen
June 2019 at Riverside Theater | © 2019 Born Dancing, Inc. All rights reserved
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