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All Classes are provided by Individual teacher
“Spoke The Hub is one of the best places for supporting emerging artists. It was among the first places that supported me in my performances in New York City. Through my performance, I had the opportunity to receive the People’s Choice Artist Award and a residency at Spoke The Hub, where I presented an evening-length show for two consecutive nights. After this opportunity, many other performance opportunities opened up for me in New York. The people at Spoke The Hub are helpful, caring, and the space is great. They support all artists and provide excellent facilities for emerging dancers and choreographers.
Tina Bararian, Iranian Choreographer and Artistic Director of Tina Bararian Dance Company
OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS & PROJECTS
STH DANCING Up the HUDSON @ The Morton Library in Rhinecliff, NY
STH is currently developing a new dance and performance collaboration with the historic Morton Library in Rhinecliff, New York (about an hour and a half via Amtrak up the Hudson River.) This new venture will support a cultural exchange between under-represented independent dance and performance artists in the Hudson Valley and Brooklyn and share their original work with this under-served area in Dutchess County. Artists will be selected for their diversity, artistic excellence, originality and embrace of community involvement. Brooklyn artists will be selected from their past participation in Winter Follies and STH WHEELHOUSE showcases. In the Fall, artists’ weeklong residencies will include free rehearsal space, culminating at the end of the week in a free movement workshop for all ages and an informal public sharing of the new work-in-progress in the beautiful community hall at Morton Library. Lodging will be provided at STH’s local go-to Airbnb within walking distance of the Amtrak train station and the Morton Library (so a car is not absolutely necessary.) Beginning in January 2025, an eclectic, once-a-month, Saturday night dance and performance showcase will be held in the Library, featuring both Brooklyn and Hudson Valley performing and teaching artists. Hudson Valley artists will also be invited to perform in STH’s monthly WHEELHOUSE productions in Park Slope, Brooklyn throughout the year.
Holiday Arts Sale & Benefit Performances
Performers, fine artists, craftspeople and friends are invited to the Hub every December to get in the holiday spirit, share their joyful, handmade work, and to just generally just eat, drink and make merry with new and old friends. STH also often uses this opportunity to raise funds for much needed studio improvements. Help us celebrate and make our little “mom and pop” dance and arts center even better!
STH Bandwagon Projects
STH Artistic Director has been making small, medium and super-sized community dance works for over half a century. Her teenage obsession with international folk dancing has influenced her exploration of crossing boundaries between social dancing and theatricality, then objectifying a form that grows out of that. Called the “Cecil B. DeMille of Dance in Brooklyn”, Long thus regularly incorporates pedestrian movers of all ages with skilled dance professionals to create a unique, idiosyncratic “folk” dance/theatre experience that is hopefully moving for both the participants AND the work’s audiences. Long invites all hardy movers to jump on the next STH BANDWAGON and be part of the exciting new group work to be performed…??
STH DANCING Up the HUDSON @ The Morton Library in Rhinecliff, NY
STH is currently developing a new dance and performance collaboration with the historic Morton Library in Rhinecliff, New York (about an hour and a half via Amtrak up the Hudson River.) This new venture will support a cultural exchange between under-represented independent dance and performance artists in the Hudson Valley and Brooklyn and share their original work with this under-served area in Dutchess County. Artists will be selected for their diversity, artistic excellence, originality and embrace of community involvement. Brooklyn artists will be selected from their past participation in Winter Follies and STH WHEELHOUSE showcases. In the Fall, artists’ weeklong residencies will include free rehearsal space, culminating at the end of the week in a free movement workshop for all ages and an informal public sharing of the new work-in-progress in the beautiful community hall at Morton Library. Lodging will be provided at STH’s local go-to Airbnb within walking distance of the Amtrak train station and the Morton Library (so a car is not absolutely necessary.) Beginning in January 2025, an eclectic, once-a-month, Saturday night dance and performance showcase will be held in the Library, featuring both Brooklyn and Hudson Valley performing and teaching artists. Hudson Valley artists will also be invited to perform in STH’s monthly WHEELHOUSE productions in Park Slope, Brooklyn throughout the year.
Holiday Arts Sale & Benefit Performances
Performers, fine artists, craftspeople and friends are invited to the Hub every December to get in the holiday spirit, share their joyful, handmade work, and to just generally just eat, drink and make merry with new and old friends. STH also often uses this opportunity to raise funds for much needed studio improvements. Help us celebrate and make our little “mom and pop” dance and arts center even better!
STH Bandwagon Projects
STH Artistic Director has been making small, medium and super-sized community dance works for over half a century. Her teenage obsession with international folk dancing has influenced her exploration of crossing boundaries between social dancing and theatricality, then objectifying a form that grows out of that. Called the “Cecil B. DeMille of Dance in Brooklyn”, Long thus regularly incorporates pedestrian movers of all ages with skilled dance professionals to create a unique, idiosyncratic “folk” dance/theatre experience that is hopefully moving for both the participants AND the work’s audiences. Long invites all hardy movers to jump on the next STH BANDWAGON and be part of the exciting new group work to be performed…??
When I was eleven I had the opportunity to perform at Lincoln Center…This was one of the most amazing art collaborations I have ever worked on and it took months to prepare for…My dance teacher, Elise Long, had been working tirelessly for about a year on this project….Being a part of a dance piece usually means knowing all of its pieces and parts…but the only person who knew what the big picture looked like was Elise… It was strange being a part of something much larger than myself and not quite understanding everything about it, but we dancers knew that whatever happened the day of the performance would be spectacular… Elise Long is the most professional artist I know…Her teachings have affected countless lives where she has shown how powerful art can be… Everything is going smoothly when someone feels a drop of water and starts a whisper to the others. We kept rolling. The audience members are huddled close under black umbrellas watching … The audience knows that this was not planned for, but that at the same time it is beautiful… I have never felt this pure in my soaked clothes with my fellow dancers…I am electric, invigorated, reborn through this show in the rain…. Almost everything had failed. We had repeated parts of the dance that were supposed to have been done once. We had cut short and melded together pieces that were meant to have gone on by themselves… Everything swirled together into one big group performance. Elise had never intended for this to happen, but she wasn’t angry. We had pressed on and made something perhaps even more beautiful than the original performance through our dripping defiance…I will never forget what we did that day for it was rich and marvelous…Even today I can remember that strength and I apply it to everything I do… The act of striving for the best possible outcome came out of this dance performance and it manifests itself in my life daily. It constantly pushes me to be a better student, a better dancer, and a better person.
Zachary Kruskal, Former Dance Student, Current Masseuse