Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi

The West Indian Day Parade may be on hold this year, but the Carnival culture is still going strong! Mickela heads to the Little Caribbean neighborhood in Crown Heights, Brooklyn to take outdoor soca dance classes, learn the steel pan with Tropical Fete, dance on stilts with the KaisokahUSA Moko

Mickela connects with the Arab-American communities in New York from learning Algerian Rai with Esraa Warda to exploring Bay Ridge’s “Little Middle East” in Brooklyn to celebrating a Palestinian wedding with the Freedom Dabka Group - Muslim and Christian brothers and sisters share their culture, food, and traditions with

Little Sri Lanka in Staten Island is one of the largest concentrations of Sri Lankans outside of the island nation. Mickela dances with the Sri Lankan Dance Academy and visits the family-owned restaurants on Victory Blvd. in Tompkinsville cooking up traditional dishes. She celebrates with the incredibly diverse community through

Mickela heads to The Bronx to meet with the largest Garifuna community in the United States, a people of Afro-Caribbean culture with Central American influences. She learns the dances and music that have miraculously survived generations of impossible odds, and she features the Casita Maria Center For Arts & Education

Hispanic and Latinx communities span the entire city! From the historic and artistic “Loisaida” (Lower East Side) neighborhood, to dancing Dominican bachata in Central Park, to dancing tango at the Astoria Tango House in Queens, to drumming the powerful samba reggae rhythms with Batalá, Mickela travels through the boroughs to

With so much on hold during the COVID-19 lockdown, these inspiring stories of dance have kept communities healthy, safe, and connected! From the powerfully healing Table of Silence performance in Lincoln Center for the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, to the Pacemakers, the elderly hype dancers for the Coney Island

The Wild Atlantic Way of Southwest Ireland has breathtaking landscapes and plenty of places to dance – Mickela explores the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry and dances with David Geaney, goes on a walking food tour of Dingle, sits in on a trad session with SuperCeili at The Dingle Music Shop,

In Part 1 of Ireland, Mickela learns the Riverdance step in Dublin; she heads to Doolin in County Clare, the birthplace of traditional Irish music, to learn the penny whistle at the famous Gus O’Connor’s Pub; she meets with traditional matchmaker Willie Daly at the 160-year-old Matchmaking Festival

Known as the gateway between Africa and Europe, Mickela heads to Tangier, Morocco to have an emotional, dance experience with Dar Gnawa. She visits the Blue City of Chefchaouen, making music with an all-female Hadra group. She tastes the incredible foods and spices in Fes, and she is shown traditional,

Mickela’s Eastern European roots take her to Bucharest, Romania, known as the Paris of the East. She dances in the small villages of Bucovina and heads to Transylvania to learn the traditional Calusarii dance. She meets with local artisans, both traditional and modern, and is then taken in as

The Greek and Turkish influence in Mickela’s DNA map lands her in Cyprus, known as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite, an island full of ancient mythology and festive dancing. She awakens her inner goddess with some belly dancing in Ancient Kourion, meets with the silversmithing and lace artisans

In celebration of the Feast of Saint John, Mickela jumps right in with the locals for dancing, music, and the building of the Castells (Human Towers) in Girona, Catalonia (Spain). She visits the nearby, seaside town of Palamos to learn the iconic Sardana dance and celebrate the Habaneras Festival, and

The West Indian Day Parade may be on hold this year, but the Carnival culture is still going strong! Mickela heads to the Little Caribbean neighborhood in Crown Heights, Brooklyn to take outdoor soca dance classes, learn the steel pan with Tropical Fete, dance on stilts with the KaisokahUSA Moko

Mickela connects with the Arab-American communities in New York from learning Algerian Rai with Esraa Warda to exploring Bay Ridge’s “Little Middle East” in Brooklyn to celebrating a Palestinian wedding with the Freedom Dabka Group - Muslim and Christian brothers and sisters share their culture, food, and traditions with

Little Sri Lanka in Staten Island is one of the largest concentrations of Sri Lankans outside of the island nation. Mickela dances with the Sri Lankan Dance Academy and visits the family-owned restaurants on Victory Blvd. in Tompkinsville cooking up traditional dishes. She celebrates with the incredibly diverse community through

Mickela heads to The Bronx to meet with the largest Garifuna community in the United States, a people of Afro-Caribbean culture with Central American influences. She learns the dances and music that have miraculously survived generations of impossible odds, and she features the Casita Maria Center For Arts & Education

Hispanic and Latinx communities span the entire city! From the historic and artistic “Loisaida” (Lower East Side) neighborhood, to dancing Dominican bachata in Central Park, to dancing tango at the Astoria Tango House in Queens, to drumming the powerful samba reggae rhythms with Batalá, Mickela travels through the boroughs to

With so much on hold during the COVID-19 lockdown, these inspiring stories of dance have kept communities healthy, safe, and connected! From the powerfully healing Table of Silence performance in Lincoln Center for the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, to the Pacemakers, the elderly hype dancers for the Coney Island

The Wild Atlantic Way of Southwest Ireland has breathtaking landscapes and plenty of places to dance – Mickela explores the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry and dances with David Geaney, goes on a walking food tour of Dingle, sits in on a trad session with SuperCeili at The Dingle Music Shop,

In Part 1 of Ireland, Mickela learns the Riverdance step in Dublin; she heads to Doolin in County Clare, the birthplace of traditional Irish music, to learn the penny whistle at the famous Gus O’Connor’s Pub; she meets with traditional matchmaker Willie Daly at the 160-year-old Matchmaking Festival

Known as the gateway between Africa and Europe, Mickela heads to Tangier, Morocco to have an emotional, dance experience with Dar Gnawa. She visits the Blue City of Chefchaouen, making music with an all-female Hadra group. She tastes the incredible foods and spices in Fes, and she is shown traditional,

Mickela’s Eastern European roots take her to Bucharest, Romania, known as the Paris of the East. She dances in the small villages of Bucovina and heads to Transylvania to learn the traditional Calusarii dance. She meets with local artisans, both traditional and modern, and is then taken in as

The Greek and Turkish influence in Mickela’s DNA map lands her in Cyprus, known as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite, an island full of ancient mythology and festive dancing. She awakens her inner goddess with some belly dancing in Ancient Kourion, meets with the silversmithing and lace artisans

In celebration of the Feast of Saint John, Mickela jumps right in with the locals for dancing, music, and the building of the Castells (Human Towers) in Girona, Catalonia (Spain). She visits the nearby, seaside town of Palamos to learn the iconic Sardana dance and celebrate the Habaneras Festival, and