Co-presented by BAM and Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy

Families deepen their engagement with DanceAfrica in this fun-filled, outdoor workshop, led by BAM teaching artist Dánice Jones, learning rhythms and movement from the African Diaspora.

Registration is required to attend this free event. A limited number of spaces are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration will be available starting May 1, please check back!

This event has a rain date of Sunday, May 25.

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New York native Dánice Jones also known as “Ms.Dánice” is a beacon of light in artistry development. She is best known for producing quality instruction and transformative performing arts experiences. Dánice’s distinctive genre-bending choreographic style, and resounding musicianship, are always on full display. Dánice values uplifting her community, offering a variety of influential embodiment environments for creative professionals, recreational artists, and families.

Dánice’s extensive background with BAM is over three decades long, as she has been a featured dancer and percussionist in various seasons of Dance Africa with professional companies from Cote d’ivoire, Senegal, and Guinea. Her devotion to nurturing the next generation of artists continues by contributing curricula for NY schools and arts programs such as Brooklyn Academy of Music, Pace University, Ballet Hispánico School and more. Merging her Psychological studies, M.A. & B.A, with her dance studies, B.F.A and her current pursuit of her Doctoral Degree in Dance Education at Columbia University, she shares a wide range of therapeutic wellness knowledge to provide progressive art education for all.