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TopView Sightseeing - various times
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TopView Sightseeing Bus Stop - various times
TopView Sightseeing - various times
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The New Victory Theater
Adler Hall @ NY Society For Ethical Culture
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New York Sword Dance Festival
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Half Moon Sword presents this 38th annual festival with free, family-friendly performances of this traditional dance form with modern twists by nine performing groups from around the Northeast.
The festival features both mystical, stately longsword and vigorous rapper sword dancing, with live music on fiddle, accordion, and other instruments. In both types of sword dance, the dancers are linked in a ring by the “swords” they hold in their hands while they work as a team to weave intricate figures and patterns without breaking the circle.
The dances take place at libraries, schools, churches and other venues around Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
10am OPENING SHOWCASE - All Teams
Speyer Hall at University Settlement
184 Eldridge Street, Manhattan
1:30pm Brooklyn Heights Library
286 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn
1:30pm Seward Park Library
192 East Broadway, Manhattan
1:30 and 3:30pm Pacific Library
25 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn
3:30pm Jefferson Market Library
425 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan
3:30pm Park Slope Library
431 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn
Sunday, February 18, 2024
12:30pm The Gray Mare
61 Second Avenue, Manhattan
12:30pm Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn
12:45pm Old First Reformed Church
729 Carroll Street, Brooklyn
2:30pm GRAND FINALE - All Teams Brooklyn Waldorf School
11 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn