In honor of Caribbean-American Heritage Month, Dance Caribbean COLLECTIVE presents its second annual festival, New Traditions 2016: Dance Your Caribbean, on Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 7:30pm and Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 6pm. Both performances take place at Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center, 29 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201.

The New Traditions Festival is a series of programming that leads up to the fully produced dance performance event on June 11 & 12 during, Caribbean Heritage Month in Brooklyn, NY. 

Our 2016 performances feature Facing Home: Love and Redemption, the work of Jamaican choreographers, Christopher Walker, dancer and choreographer for National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica and professor at University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Kevin A. Ormsby, former Fagan dancer, now Director of Kashedance, which explores the global impact of Bob Marley’s music and the culture of homophobia in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. 

In addition, the festival will present local choreographers Jessica St. Vil (Haiti/USA), Maxine Montilus (Haiti/USA), Safi Harriott (Jamaica/USA), Shola Roberts (Grenada/USA) and Dance Caribbean COLLECTIVE Founder, Candace Thompson (Trinidad and Tobago). 

Tickets are available online at dccnewtraditions2016.bpt.me for $25.