Spinning Bubbles Takes on New York!
A global dance program explores locally: Spinning Bubbles provides free dance classes to girls all around the world, but we want our local New York dancers to experience the dance of NYC!
Leader
Stephanie Pisarevskiy
Location
Salt Marsh Nature Center, East 33rd Street and Avenue U, Brooklyn, NY 11229
About the project
The Spinning Bubbles Dance Program provides free online classes to girls around the world. However, we are looking to expand to in-person spaces, which we have done in the past through park performances. We hope to not only continue this programming, but we would also like to bring our dancers to watch and perform more.
Spinning Bubbles is a three-year-old program founded during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we have been providing free dance classes to girls around the world since then. However, because we were founded and live in the epicenter of the culture and the arts, we are always looking to bring our program in-person to the people of New York City, and vice versa. We want to bring the inspiration of New York City to our own dancers, and there is no better way to do that than by bringing that world to them.
The Steps
1. We will host presentations to inform the public about the disparities in dance education.
2. We will perform. We will show what we, as high school and college students, are doing to close the gap and divide in dance education.
3. We will watch. We will bring our dancers to the local and world-renowned performances in our own city.
4. We will learn. We want to bring in a Broadway dancer to share her experience working in the industry and performing on the big stage.
5. We will reflect. We will take a look back on what we've learned from our own performances and the inspirations we experienced to bring new perspectives to the way that our programming operations and provide new opportunities that are free and accessible to even more girls from around the world.
Why we‘re doing it
To summarize our mission in three words: because. girls. can.
We believe that every girl deserves every opportunity in the world to pursue her dreams in anything that she can imagine, but we also know that not everyone has the resources that enable success. In order to narrow the gap that divides access to opportunities, we provide different kinds of opportunities that match the interests and uniqueness of every child because with the proper tools and, of course, the right passion, girls can do anything.