Help Us Dance Our Way to the UN!
We have an incredible opportunity — and we need YOU to help us seize it.
DanceStream Projects has been invited to perform at the 2024 United Nations General Assembly Healing Arts Week!
This is our chance to showcase how dance transforms lives, builds community, and promotes brain health — especially among older adults and LGBTQIA+ elders right here in Queens.
We're bringing Queens' vibrant dance community to the world stage — but we need to raise $5,000 to make it happen.
Here’s How YOU Can Help Right Now:
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Since 2022, DanceStream Projects has been collaborating with Queens Center for Gay Seniors elders on the dance program “Rainbow Stories in the Moment”.
Located in Jackson Heights, Queen, the most diverse community in the US (48% foreign-born), this center serves LGBTQIA+ elders and allies, many of whom are first generation immigrants.
These diverse older adult dancers are modeling the power of dance for health!
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“Let’s Move the World” is a dance created by over 20 diverse LGBTQIA+ elders and allies from the Queens Center for Gay Seniors in Jackson Heights, NY.
The dance celebrates resilience, wellbeing and belonging as a shared action.
These inspiring elders are not only improving their own health through dance, they are strengthening community and modeling what it means to thrive together.
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Research indicates that LGBTQIA+ and immigrant elders face a 30% and 70% increased risk of dementia, respectively.
“Rainbow Stories” applies applies evidence-informed benefits of dance to support brain health while fostering social cohesion and cultivating creative expression.
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Every dollar brings us closer to the UN stage!
$25 = Transportation for one dancer
$50 = Costume support for our performers
$100 = Rehearsal expenses for one dance artist
$250 = Helps sponsor our tech rehearsal
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Dance is more than movement — Dance supports not just brain health but builds solidarity, community and belonging
Our work centers the role dance plays in not only promoting brain health, but cultivating belonging, connection and space to showcase the voices of older adults and people living with dementia. Voices we don’t hear often enough. Voices which are often showcased in one note narratives that focus more on deficits rather than the vitality, novelty and creativity we witness with these communities.
With your donation, we’re not just traveling to the UN GA Healing Arts Week — we’re elevating voices, stories, and lives through the power of dance.
Bonus Impact: Any funds raised beyond $5,000 will go toward expanding our free dance programs in Queens and beyond.
You can help us take the stage.
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Every dollar helps cover accessible travel for over 25 older adults to the performance site in Manhattan, dedicated time for 10 weeks of rehearsals, technical production of the show, artist fees.
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