Dancing Classrooms New York City

Today is , and we have a lot of people to thank.

Our teaching artists show up in over 100 schools across New York City, New Jersey, and Westchester every week to bring joy to thousands of young people. They teach kids how to foxtrot and merengue, yes. But more than that, they teach kids how to listen, how to show up for each other, and how to carry themselves with dignity.

To every Dancing Classrooms Teaching Artist, past and present: thank you for the work you do every single day. Your impact lasts longer than we can imagine.

Proud to be part of the Queens Cultural Community Legislative Breakfast at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning on April 24th! Councilmember Nantasha Williams , who calls herself a "Champion and accomplice" for the communities she serves, delivered an inspiring keynote. Great to hear from CM Phil Wong, Lucy Sexton from New Yorkers for Culture & Arts , and Evie Hantzopoulos, Executive Director of the Queens Botanical Garden, Phil Ballman, Queens Director of Culture and Tourism, and Karesia Batan, Founding ED of Queensboro Dance Festival as well. The arts are essential to Queens, and mornings like this remind us why advocacy matters. Thank you to JCAL for bringing us all together!

🕺 We have extended the deadline! There's still time to apply! 🩰

Are you a dancer, mover, or dance educator looking to make a real difference in kids' lives? Dancing Classrooms NYC is hiring Teaching Artists for the upcoming school year and the deadline is almost here!

Join our team and bring the joy of social dance to students across all 5 boroughs, Westchester, and New Jersey. Selected applicants will receive training in our K-12 social dance programs.

⏰ Application Deadline: May 8, 2026 🎤 Auditions: May 14 or 19 💃 Training: June 23-27

👉 Apply now: https://forms.gle/VRVfD13XWNKPmaYW9

Questions? Reach out to [email protected]

Don't wait! We'd love to have you on our team! 🌈

Happy International Dance Day! 💃🕺🏾 At Dancing Classrooms, every day is a celebration of what the universal language of dance can do: build confidence, foster respect, and connect young people to themselves and each other! Today we're especially proud to have brought that magic to over 750,000 young people across the globe! 🌎 Here's to the power of movement.

- We're still basking in the joy from ending our Winter residencies on such a high note last month! The numbers from our Winter Culminating Events and Informances are in, and we closed out this term DANCING all across the city! 💃🕺🏾

✨ 40 culminating sharings ✨ 3,753 students took the stage ✨ 7,506 family members hit the dance floor for a community line dance

There is nothing quite like watching everyone come together through dance. Congratulations to every student, teaching artist, and family who made this season unforgettable!

Welcome back from spring break! We've been keeping busy getting ready for Spring term - reconnecting, advocating, planning, and, of course, DANCING! 🕺🏾🌻
How did you ‘spring break’? 😎
Here are some highlights from our last two weeks:
📷 1: Executive Director Eve Wolff joined NYC Counil Member Eric Dinowitz , Paul Thompson and the New York City Public Schools Arts Office, Kimberly Olsen and the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable, Community School District 11 Superintendent Vaughn, Bronx Art Ensemble, and the principal, teachers, and students from PS 16X in celebrating the NY City Council's Support for Arts Education Initiative
📷 2-4: Our Teaching artists and staff were joined by Joe Smith from The Center for Healing and Justice through Sport at our annual professional development, grounding our practice in , , and neurological development.
📷 5-6: Education Director Yvonne Winborne, Senior Teaching Artists Akemi Kinukawa and Silvia Guerrero served on a panel facilitated by on integrating teaching artists into leadership in your organization at the conference, joining over 570 members of the field at this annual spring break highlight

We're hiring! Dancing Classrooms is looking for a Senior Grants Manager to join our team. 🎉

This full-time role is at the heart of our development work, leading grant writing and reporting, building our institutional funding pipeline, managing funder relationships, and keeping our grants calendar running smoothly. If you're a skilled grant writer who loves connecting funding opportunities to meaningful mission-driven work, we want to hear from you.

What you'll bring:
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (English, Communication, Nonprofit Management, etc.).
Minimum 5 years of grant writing experience.
Knowledge and application of best practices in grantmaking.
A critical thinker who can connect the dots and see the big picture
Enthusiasm for dance, arts & culture, and education, and a commitment to Dancing Classrooms’ mission and vision.

Salary: $70,000-$75,000 | Mostly remote | NYC-based

Learn more and apply: https://dancingclassrooms.org/now-hiring-senior-grants-manager

We are so proud of two of our incredible DC team: Teaching Artist Ilene Echavarria & Senior Teaching Artist Akemi Kinukawa (Swing Dance Astoria) , who recently completed a special professional development program with our friends at Born Dancing!

Born Dancing is a New York-based nonprofit founded on the belief that people of all ages and abilities should have access to every aspect of dance. Their Teaching Artists program supports dance educators in deepening their practice around disability inclusion, special education, and equity-centered teaching.

Over four workshop sessions this February and March, Ilene and Akemi explored how to bring the values of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (or IDEA as we like to call it) to life in their classrooms through curriculum design, reflective practice, and collaborative learning.

At Dancing Classrooms, we believe every student deserves a dance floor where they feel seen and supported. Investing in our Teaching Artists means investing in every student we serve.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. 🌈

At Dancing Classrooms, we believe the dance floor is for everyone. To our trans and nonbinary students, teaching artists, and community members: you are seen, you are valued, and you belong here.

🕺 We're hiring Teaching Artists! 🩰

Do you love kids, movement, and making a difference? Dancing Classrooms NYC is looking for dancers, movers, and dance educators of all kinds to join our Teaching Artist team this fall!

Select applicants will receive training in our K-12 social dance programs to bring to all 5 boroughs, Westchester, and NJ this coming school year.

📅 Apply by May 1, 2026 🎤 Auditions: May 14 or 19 💃 Training: June 23–27

Apply here: https://forms.gle/VRVfD13XWNKPmaYW9

Questions? Email [email protected]

March Madness just got a little more personal for us! Rutgers guard, Tariq Francis, a Dancing Classrooms Pittsburgh alum, is out here making noise on the big stage! Tariq led Rutgers with 16.9 points per game this season and earned All-Big Ten Honorable Mention honors, proving he belongs among the best in one of college basketball's toughest conferences.

Before he was lighting up scoreboards, Tariq was lighting up the dance floor at Colors of the Rainbow. We love seeing our alumni carry that confidence, grace, and joy into everything they do. Go Tariq, go Rutgers! 🎉🏀