Kids | Music
Get Up, Stand Up! Family Workshop
- 1PM
Come early to get up, stand up, and start your groove with dancer and choreographer Adia Whitaker at this dynamic workshop, scheduled right before the Get Up, Stand Up! performance. Whitaker invites kids and adults alike to join her to learn the jazz roots of classic hip-hop dances.
Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation.
Major support for Get Up, Stand Up! provided by The Lepercq Charitable Foundation
The artistic director of Àṣẹ Dance Theatre Collective, Adia Tamar Whitaker performs contemporary dance, vernacular movement, Afro-Haitian, and Haitian dance. She was an Urban Bush Women Apprentice, a Jerome Foundation grantee, and an Isadora Duncan Award recipient. In 2019, she received the prestigious NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Award in Choreography; completed a residency at the Kennedy Center; and premiered Have K(NO!)w Fear; A Bluessical at ODC Dance Theater in San Francisco. A participant in BAM's DanceAfrica 2021, she is most proud of her accomplishments as a mother.
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