Project Performing Arts empowers youth, children and teens, through artistic expression.
Project Performing Arts is a non-profit performing arts program located in Harlem for children ages 6-17 years of age. PPA opened for classes in September 2013 and received non-profit status in 2019. Classes in Dance, Theater Arts and West African Drumming provides students with low cost professional performing arts classes. We engage children and teens in professional training to enrich their liv
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OnSTAGE! 2016, Saturday, June 13th, 7pm. We can't wait. 🤩
05/29/2026
Here’s to building confidence, having fun dancing, creating memories, and capturing LOTS of beautiful moments for our newest photo album! 📸❤️ We’re excited to see what instructor has planned for their performance.
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05/28/2026
We are honored to have received permission from the author, Jennifer Reif Creative Director DramaNotebook to use her fun, funny, and hilarious script, The Missing Masterpiece, as part of our Young Actors on the Move recital piece. Grateful for her support of our young performers.
Dance isn’t just vocabulary, technical skills, and counts — These young professionals are learning that with this spoken-word poem Dear Young Woman, they are exploring and discovering how to interpret emotion, rhythm, and storytelling into artistry that speaks beyond the steps. They are learning how to become the movement, the emotions, the message. Pushing the envelope for OnStage! 2026.
05/22/2026
It’s almost time for our PPA students to take the stage!
The costumes are being constructed and ordered, students are off-book for their scene work, and the excitement in the studio is getting real.
We .grizz.mark .n.motion and Baba Adé are beyond thrilled to announce PPA’s upcoming recital, OnSTAGE! 2026. ✨Ticket sales go live on Monday, May 25.
Tag family and friends, drop a 👏🏽 in the comments to support our performer!
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To all my dance teacher friends, we all know that one of the best feelings as a dance educator, a teacher, is seeing students start to demonstrate the clarity of technique and movement phrases. But when they begin dancing with every correction, texture, and performance quality discussed, it’s that “aha” moment that warms your heart. Things might not be perfect, and everyone knows that there’s more work to be done, but that “aha” is the best!
05/07/2026
Great dance teachers and dance educators are brave and passionate individuals who honor their presence in a student’s life.
They teach the language of dance, as well as the concepts of movement, technique, and styles. They build confidence, they inspire, they encourage creativity, and nurture their students’ development with patience, passion, and energy. Dance teachers support, challenge, and empower their students to shine. 🙏🏽 .n.motion 🙏🏽 .grizz.mark 🙏🏽 and 🙏🏽
This is Coordination Overload!
Learning to play the djembe and understand the main concepts of bass, tone, slap requires control, coordination, and rhythm. But when you add a second drum, adding different rhythms… now, that’s a whole new kind of challenge.
Bravo girls!!!!! And 🙏🏽 Baba Adé(Paul Harris)
| Friday | 4pm - 6:30pm |
| Saturday | 9am - 7pm |