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ASASE YAA IS moving!
With your help, we will create the perfect
new space for the Asase Yaa Community
ASASE YAA IS moving!
With your help, we will create the perfect new space for the Asase Yaa Community
Beginning July 5, 2022, Asase Yaa will begin renovation on a new stand-alone 3,500-foot space at 1005 Greene Avenue in Brooklyn, which will be our home for the next decade.
To turn our new home into the dream space we aspire to create for our youth, we need your support and donations to set our plans to raise $100,000 in motion.
Highlights of our renovation plans include:
- Three dance studios with sprung wood Marley dance flooring
- Floor-to-ceiling mirrors
- Full HVAC
- Audio-visual systems
- State-of the arts lighting and sound equipment
- Three office spaces
- Wellness/meditation room
- Event space
Our initial $10,000 Fundraiser Ends in:
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We’re planning a Ribbon-Cutting/Press Ceremony, September 1, 2022, Open House, September 10, 2022, and our first day of classes is September 15, 2022.
It Was All a Dream is a moving story and dance drama inspired by the enduring challenges, unrelenting hope, faith and optimism that has fueled the growth of Asase Yaa from its humble beginnings as a grass roots dance company to a sustainable multi-faceted foundation and cultural arts organization.
Arts Outreach
We are very proud to introduce and share with you our ARTS OUTREACH programs, which are an extension of the curriculum that we have developed and refined for the past 18 years in our Asase Yaa School of the Arts.
Rhythm Connection
We’re happy to announce “Rhythm Connection,” a newly developed virtual interactive 45-minute concert curated and created by our Asase Yaa School of the Arts Outreach program is available for bookings for schools grades K-12.
Our Mission
Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit organization that is dedicated to fulfill our core tenets to Enrich, Educate, Entertain and promote the importance of cultural performing arts to youth and adults in our community. We aspire to empower and strengthen our youth by offering them an opportunity to learn, study and experience the history, movement and beauty of African Diasporic dance, music and culture at its highest level. Our programs are designed to ensure that our youth understand the roots and value of culture in the arts, which we hope will inspire and propel them to become strong leaders capable of preserving and elevating our culture and communities in the future.
Our Mission
Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit organization that is dedicated to fulfill our core tenets to Enrich, Educate, Entertain and promote the importance of cultural performing arts to youth and adults in our community. We aspire to empower and strengthen our youth by offering them an opportunity to learn, study and experience the history, movement and beauty of African Diasporic dance, music and culture at its highest level. Our programs are designed to ensure that our youth understand the roots and value of culture in the arts, which we hope will inspire and propel them to become strong leaders capable of preserving and elevating our culture and communities in the future.
news & events
2022 DanceAfrica Festival
Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater will perform as part of the 2022 DanceAfrica Festival, May 27-30 at the Brooklyn Academy of the Arts. “THIS FESTIVAL HEALS, PUMPS UP, AND MOVES ONE TO TEARS.” —DANCE ENTHUSIAST The nation’s largest festival dedicated to African...
It Was All a Dream Musical In the News
It Was All a Dream has been featured in multiple publications since it was announced.
Interview with community partner, Launch School
You can learn more about Launch at their website: https://www.launchschool.org/
WHAT MAKES ASASE YAA UNIQUE?
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scholarships
ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS
Black-OwneD
Serving Low-Income families
free performing classes
Summer children's art camp
School of the Arts Outreach Program
SCHOLARSHIPS
intergenerational
AWARD-Winning honors
ASASE YAA ALUMNI SUCCESS
Original Productions
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THE Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation
The Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation is a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization with a mission to enlighten, uplift and immerse the community at large in all things artful of Africa – in full – in America. The Foundation is the controlling entity of a broad range of arts & cultural services that comprise two primary programs, the Asase Yaa School of the Arts and the Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater. Under the auspices of the School of the Arts, they also sponsor an annual Children’s Summer Arts Camp, and have a thriving Arts Outreach educational program that services public and private schools throughout New York’s five boroughs including Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens. It’s one of the few Black-owned and run African cultural arts organizations in Brooklyn, and its principals include; Kofi Osei Williams, Chief Executive Director, Rubie Inez Williams, Director of Operations of the Foundation and Yao Ababio, Founder and Artistic Director of the African American Dance Theater.
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THE Asase Yaa SCHOOL OF ARTS
The School of the Arts was founded in 2010 with the mission to provide quality dance and drum instruction to boys and girls students ages 3 to 18. Through intensive study and technical training in various dance forms that include tap, jazz, ballet, hip hop, modern, and African, students become well versed in their genre over the course of the 37 week program (which typically runs from October to June).
CHILDREN’S SUMMER ART CAMP
ARTS OUTREACH PROGRAM
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THE Asase Yaa AFRICAN AMERICAN DANCE THEATER
Where ever they perform, the Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater becomes the audience’s favorite African dance and drum company, a reputation that we have worked diligently to maintain.
