The Black River Dance Center for Performing Arts is located in Harlem, once known as an African American cultural hub and now known as a place to experience the disorienting effects of gentrification first-hand.
Black River is a terrific community asset. People are always dancing out of the door smiling because whatever they were doing in there was just too much fun. I have posted a picture on Twitter.
Right next door to Black River is the new Maysles Institute Cinema.
In case you are not a fan, the Maysles are the award-winning documentarians that did Grey Gardens, the must-see movie about Caroline Kennedy's relatives living in a decaying mansion and living out loud before our very eyes. The Maysles filmed it all, got famous and inspired this charming Broadway musical. Then they moved to Harlem, I guess so they could cause gentrification and document it simultaneously.
Both organizations have arts workshops for young people and both are located diagonally across from Sylvia’s Soul food Restaurant and Tourist Trap where Caroline Kennedy ate and ran for senator.
The circle is now complete.
Black River is a terrific community asset. People are always dancing out of the door smiling because whatever they were doing in there was just too much fun. I have posted a picture on Twitter.
Right next door to Black River is the new Maysles Institute Cinema.
In case you are not a fan, the Maysles are the award-winning documentarians that did Grey Gardens, the must-see movie about Caroline Kennedy's relatives living in a decaying mansion and living out loud before our very eyes. The Maysles filmed it all, got famous and inspired this charming Broadway musical. Then they moved to Harlem, I guess so they could cause gentrification and document it simultaneously.
Both organizations have arts workshops for young people and both are located diagonally across from Sylvia’s Soul food Restaurant and Tourist Trap where Caroline Kennedy ate and ran for senator.
The circle is now complete.
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