Hispanic Culture Arts

Yesterdays Three King’s Parade in NYC!

We are so excited and honored to be present “Music and Dances from the Spanish Americas”, in a family concert as part of the season of Orchestra Miami this coming January 11th!
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Music & Dance in the Spanish Americas Travel back to life in the Spanish America of the 1700s as Orchestra Miami presents Music & Dance from the Spanish Americas, created by Hispanic Culture Arts out of NYC. Music and Dances from the Spanish Americas is an engaging and colorful performance which features dancers in period costume, live....

Thank you for a wonderful professional development day in Brooklyn, “Artful Justice and Collective Action. HCA participated in the breakout session led by Andrea Ambam of on storytelling. Really great day…

Always enjoyable to see our colleagues work and make new friendships! Our visit with at Grover Cleveland Hugh School in Queens was fun, enjoyed seeing the dance instruction to Afro beats, as high schoolers got a great start to their school day 🎹🎼 . Thank you to Clement Mensah! TIKORORO slogan is “two heads are better than one”. We couldn’t agree more 🙌🏻🪘🙌🏻

Hispanic Heritage Month is still going strong! Assembly today of “Folklore y Arte” at a wonderful school in the BX, PS306.

Week three of Hispanic Heritage Month finds us serving all 5 boroughs with our school assemblies! We even managed to get in a school fair, with our new fliers, bookmarks and pencils designed by

We continue to celebrate week 2025! Arts Ed happens not only in public schools but in our local community centers. danzas de Ida y vuelta was a collaboration with with the sponsorship of

National Arts in Education Week was first observed in September of 2024.

Organized by organizations like Americans for the Arts and the Arts Action Fund, the week was a national movement to highlight the transformative power of the arts in education, advocate for equitable access for all students, and promote creative solutions for academic and personal growth.

Activities included engaging with elected officials, participating in social media campaigns, using , and accessing resources like toolkits, fact sheets, and webinars on arts education funding and policy.

Hope everyone had a great first day of school today!

We are proud to continue to feature the choreography of BALAM Dance Theatre as part of our Hispanic Heritage Month assembly “Music and Dances from the Spanish Americas”.

🌞BALAM Dance Theatre’s work is seen and enjoyed by audiences of all ages! Recently, Hispanic Culture Arts’ Anna de la Paz of Anna de la Paz Spanish Dance
and guest dancer Steven Jeltsch once again performed BALAM’s innovative work, Peruvian Dances from the 18th Century.

💃🕺This suite of dances was performed in the educational program, Music and Dance from the Spanish Americas, at the Benjamin Franklin Health & Science Academy, PS/IS 157 in Brooklyn, New York.⭐

Dancer: Steven Jeltsch. Photo Credit: Julie Lemberger of Julie Lemberger Photography.

Happy Dominican Heritage Month! We are thrilled to unveil our own and original school curriculum for NYC area schools 🗽 that celebrates folkloric music and dance from 🇩🇴. Thanks to an Arts Partnership Grant from the Office of Arts and Special Projects 🍎 PS396 and join in a series of workshops, starting with for 1st grade with ☀️with our outstanding faculty, dancer and percussionist 🪘 , both led this outstanding arts education curriculum. We enjoyed the full support of both the music and visual arts teacher at PS396X with instruments, and the construction of the Guloya festival hats by the 1st graders themselves.