Beach Sessions Dance Series

Sasha Okshteyn is organizing this fundraiser to benefit Black & White Project Space Inc.

Founded in 2015, Beach Sessions Dance Series was established by performance producer Sasha Okshteyn to support a unique vision for the presentation of dance works in public spaces, and bring the popular outdoor dance festival model to New York City’s public beach. Inspired by Joan Jonas’s beach dances from the 1970s and Creative Time’s Art on the Beach program from the late 70s/early 80s, Beach Sessions’ mission is to facilitate public engagement with free arts on the peninsula, support creativity in the Rockaways, and inspire sustained investment in the natural beauty of the Rockaway shoreline.

Over the past seven editions, Beach Sessions has presented more than 40 established to emerging choreographers to an audience of more than 5,000 people. The series has introduced the Rockaways as a promising place for artmaking and cultural events.

Each summer invited artists have the opportunity to present site-specific work on the shorelines of the beach with the ocean as their backdrop. The programming footprint spans twenty blocks, from Beach 86th to Beach 106th, and is free to the public. For more information, please visit www.beachsessionsdanceseries.com

Beach Sessions is fiscally sponsored by Brooklyn arts tax-exempt non-profit, Black & White Project Space. Your donation will be directly dispersed to Beach Sessions through BWPS.

More information about Black & White Project Space Inc: Black & White Project Space is a 501c(3) not-for-profit exhibition space dedicated to providing artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas and mediums without commercial pressures. By supporting experimentation and project-based exhibitions, artists are encouraged to cross over diverse art mediums and create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work.