The Dance Bridge Workshop introduces participants between the ages of 13 and 18 to theatre games, writing assignments and discussions topics that inspire new ways of creating, connecting and communicating. We provided a safe space for teen artists to use dance making and artistic expression as a vehicle for effective for story telling. Participants are challenged to push  past their personal barriers to broaden their horizons and allow for ensemble building. Every season the program holds a final sharing, where participants present their own choreography to family, friends and community members.  Our aim is to establish a Bronx community of young people who are continuously CREATING and LEARNING the skills needed to speak their truth. 

The 2018 spring and summer master class instructors include: Ana "Rokafella", Jason Rodriguez "Slim Ninja", Candace Tabbs, Madelyn Sher, Roberto Parris, and Raymond Falcon. 

Beverly Lopez launched the workshop in 2015 as a final project at Battery Dance Company's Dancing-to-Connect Institute 2015. Through financial support from the Bronx Council on the Arts ( 2017 BRIO Grant awarded to Dance Bridge Workshop facilitator and director, Beverly Lopez), the program returned in spring 2018 with  the "I AM" Dance Bridge Workshop at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!). In this 5-day workshop participants moved through and discussed self-love, important affirmations for everyday, and their own personal/social truths and goals. The summer season was just as rewarding with new and returning teen artists taking part.  At the 3-day Dance Bridge Summer Workshop the youth focused on the theme "Building Tomorrow" and created dances about two important goals, "Creating the Space to Build" and "Building With You." The summer workshop took place at Herbert H. Lehman College thanks to Amy Larimer, the director of the Dance Program at Lehman College