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Simple Rising into Break the Chain flashmob: DANCE and RISE!

United States > New York, NY > Times Square > 2015-02-14 > 12:00 pm

About The Event

2:14 pm
SILENT | SIMPLE RISING
leading into a BREAK THE CHAIN flashmob!

Location Times Sq NYC

Meet at 2pm at TKTS
Wear RED | Wear war paint | Bring signs to tell the world why you are rising
DANCE and RISE with us.

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DANCE REHEARSAL SCHEDULES:

One Billion Rising "BREAK THE CHAIN" Flashmob rehearsal schedule:
FRI Feb 13 6:30 - 8 pm
Location
44 East 2nd St just east of 2nd Ave
WCLA International School
NYC

About The Organizer

Melissa Riker and Christina Liu

Melissa Riker is a choreographer and dancer in NYC - an avid protector of women and our right to stand safe from assault, she has been leading flashmobs and guiding women to empowerment through movement for 15 years. Her dance company is Kinesis Project dance theatre.

Her activism through One Billion Rising was noted and reported on by Al Jazzeera in 2013.
In 2014 she, Christina "Poppy" Liu and Joya Powell led women on a brilliant map of the streets of NYC dancing and rising through the day.

DANCE WITH US -> Take back the streets, your body and celebrate your ability to RISE.

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