Community Kids & Family Music Dance

Irish Arts Center Dance and Music Festival 2022

In association with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance

Past Event

Details

Date(s)

Sat, Jun 11, 2022

Contact

info@irishartscenter.org

Location

Pier I, Riverside Park

Overview

There might be a couple short showers this afternoon, but most of the day will be clear. This event is ON. join us!

In celebration of National Immigrant Heritage Month, we're inviting performers from communities across the city to perform in our annual festival in Riverside Park! Join us on Pier I for a free day of dance, music, sessions, céilís, cultural workshops, and arts & crafts.

Part of Riverside Park's Summer on the Hudson event series. We are proud to welcome back festival founder and Irish dance curator, Niall O’Leary.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

MAIN STAGE
1–6:30pm

Live music all day
Dan Foster (fiddle) and Colin Forhan (guitar, banjo, concertina)
The IAC Community Céilí Band
James Cleveland (fiddle)
Kotchegna Dance Company 
Kritya Ensemble feat. Yamini Kalluri (Kuchipudi dancer), Rohith Jayaraman (singer), Kabilan Jegannathan (percussion), and Laya Raghav (violin)

1:30pm Niall O’Leary School of Irish Dance (Irish step dance)
2pm Redhawk Dancers (Native American dance)
3:05pm Kritya Ensemble, featuring Yamini Kalluri (Kuchipudi dance of India)
3:50pm Kotchegna Dance Company: Part 1 (dances of the Ivory Coast)
4:30pm Darrah Carr Dance (Mod-Erin/Irish dance)
5pm Kotchegna Dance Company: Part 2 (dances of the Ivory Coast)
5:30pm Niall O’Leary Dance Troupe (Irish step dance)
6pm Community céilí for all led by Megan Downes

EDUCATION TENT 
1–5pm

1pm The IAC Community Céilí Band (Irish music demonstration) 
2:15pm Irish set dance with Dan Hunt (workshop)
3pm Dances of the Ivory Coast with Kotchegna Dance Company (workshop)
3:30pm Irish step dance with Niall O’Leary (workshop)
4pm Kuchipudi dance with Yamini Kalluri (workshop)
4:30pm Sean-nós & Southern Appalachian flatfoot dancing with Megan Downes (workshop)


ARTS & CRAFTS TENT
1–5pm

Find your favorite tree from artist Katie Holten’s NYC Tree Alphabet in Riverside Park, then use our special stamps to spell your name in trees!


STEP RIGHT UP! TENT
1–5pm

Dress up at our costume station for people and pups! Take a picture, strike a pose!

Schedule is subject to change.


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Featuring

Yamini Kalluri
Kotchegna Dance Company
Yamini Kalluri

Yamini Kalluri is a professional Kuchipudi dancer and dance prodigy who is based in New York City, but grew up in Hyderabad, India for most of her life. At the age of eight, in 2006, she began practicing the Indian classical dance form of Kuchipudi with the legendary guru Padma Shri recipient Dr. Sobha Naidu. Having performed at various prestigious festivals and venues across the United States and internationally, her artistic goal is to represent and give a new face to Kuchipudi globally. Her deep love of music has helped her to explore impactful narratives through choreography and compose pieces with talented musicians from North America and India. Her work has received critical acclaim from the New York Times and the BBC, among others.

Photo credit: Dobbins

Kotchegna Dance Company

Performing in elaborate masks to the explosive percussion of a corps of brilliant drummers, Kotchegna Dance Company brings to life the ancient stories and legends of Africa’s Ivory Coast. Under the artistic direction of master dancer and percussionist Vado Diomande, Kotchegna is rapidly establishing itself as one of the most exciting African dance troups in the United States. Born into the sacred stilt-dancing tradition of the Mahou people in northwest Ivory Coast, Vado was raised to dance and learned the revered ways. As a principal dancer in the Ivory Coast’s Ballet National for 15 years, Vado toured the world, impressing audiences with the acrobatics of the Tall Mask before moving to the United States in 1994. Kotchegna Dance Company has been embraced by audiences from New York’s Prospect Park Band Shell and the American Museum of Natural History to Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors festival.

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Our Supporters

Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Irish Institute of New York; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours; M&T Bank; the Dead Rabbit; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; and thousands of generous donors like you.

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