Ages: 8+
Cost: FREE!
Limited space available, registration required.

This class starts with a warm-up. We then learn some basics of house dance. To digest and fully integrate this vocabulary, we practice freestyle and/or choreography through game-based exercises and exchanges. The class is designed to connect movement with music and history, to provide tools for creativity and individuality.

This event is a Residency Community Program. As part of a residency at BAC, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather, engage, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partner.

About Mai Lê Hô
Mai Lê is a French-Vietnamese street/club dance artist & educator, curator, and the founder of LayeRhythm Productions INC, a NYC-based non-profit organization dedicated to highlighting freestyle voices in the performing arts landscape.

In 2015, Mai Lê created LayeRhythm, a cutting­ edge monthly jam session that layers live musicians & vocalists with freestyle dancers, acclaimed by the New York Times (2018). Since then, the project has been presented at venues/festivals such as the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center, SummerStage, 92NY, National Dance Institute, NY Public Library for the Performing Arts, Gibney, Movement Research at Judson Church, The Church (Sag Harbor), Jacob’s Pillow (MA), Catskill Mountain Foundation, Bridge Street Theater.

From 2017 to 2019, Mai Lê was the Program Director of It’s Showtime NYC!, a City-funded program that celebrates NYC street culture and provides performance and professional development opportunities to street and subway dancers. She also toured Europe with seminal Detroit music producer Theo Parrish and his live band in 2014.

Mai Lê has won 1st place in various international house dance competitions such as Ladies of Hip-Hop (NYC, 2015), Universole (Detroit, 2015), Step Ya Game Up (NYC, 2013) and has served a judge for Footwork Frenzy (2022), House Dance UK (London, 2015), Slick City (Chicago, 2015), The Blueprint (Houston, 2013). She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance at Hunter College, and has taught house dance workshops in Brazil, Vietnam, Japan, DRC, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and throughout the US.

Photo Courtesy of Mai Lê Hô