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New York Sword Dance Festival

15 February @ 10:00 am - 16 February @ 4:00 pm

Free

Half Moon Sword will present its 39th annual New York Sword Dance Festival in New York City on February 15-16, 2025. The event will feature ten performing troupes from across the northeastern U.S. in an exciting weekend of performances in public spaces in Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Festival, which New York-based Half Moon Sword inaugurated in 1986, is the oldest and first event in North America to focus on English-style sword dancing. The Festival will feature both mystical, stately longsword and vigorous rapper sword dancing, with live music on fiddle, accordion, and other instruments. Some performances will also include Cotswold Morris and step dancing, related English folk traditions. Learn more about us on our Instagram @halfmoonsword and facebook @Half Moon Sword. Find the performance schedule below:

Saturday, February 15th, 2025:
10:00am – Speyer Hall at University Settlement (184 Eldridge Street, Manhattan);
1:30 p.m. – Brooklyn Heights Library (286 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn);
1:30 p.m. – Seward Park Library (192 East Broadway, Manhattan);
1:30 and 3:30 p.m. – Pacific Library (25 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn);
3:30 p.m. – Jefferson Market Library (425 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan);
3:30 p.m. – Park Slope Library (431 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn);

Sunday, February 16th, 2025:
12:30 p.m. – Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (58 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn);
12:30 p.m. – St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (199 Carroll Street, Brooklyn);
12:45 p.m. – Old First Reformed Church (729 Carroll Street, Brooklyn);
2:30 p.m. – Brooklyn Waldorf School (11 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn)

Details

Start:
15 February @ 10:00 am
End:
16 February @ 4:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.facebook.com/share/18epxoWHh1/

Venue

Local libraries and other community spaces
11 Jefferson Avenue
Brooklyn, 11238 Brooklyn
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