Mark DeGarmo Dance Presents Mark DeGarmo Dance’s DANCE EDUCATION ROUNDTABLE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE 2026. Mark DeGarmo Dance’s Dance Education Roundtable for Social Change 2026 features accomplished NYC public school educators & dance artists discussing MDD’s evidence-based Partnerships in Literacy through Dance & Creativity program’s impacts on NYC public schools & students on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 6:00-8:00 PM at Fourth Arts Block (FAB).
WHEN: Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 6:00-8:00 PM
WHERE: Fourth Arts Block (FAB) First Floor Black Box Theater; 70 East 4th Street (between the Bowery and Second Avenue), New York, NY 10003
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Mark DeGarmo Dance’s Dance Education Roundtable for Social Change 2026 explores the reasons why its evidence-based Partnerships in Literacy through Dance & Creativity program was deemed “a national model” by the National Endowment for the Arts. A Johns Hopkins University researcher published a 2018 study showing that MDD’s embodied cognition program’s promising evidence included “statistically significant” increases in NYC public school students’ grade 4 state reading tests. Every year school leaders and teachers cite the social and emotional learning and health benefits to their under-resourced and marginalized students, up to 100% of whom live under the USA’s federal poverty rate. MDD annually partners with under-resourced & marginalized NYC public elementary schools across the city serving up to 1,000 students & 200 teachers. MDD’s goal is to provide an equitable NYC public elementary school education comparable to what the most privileged students and families boast across New York City and the USA.
About Mark DeGarmo Dance
Operating since 1982 & incorporated in 1987, Mark DeGarmo Dance is a leading NYC nonprofit dance organization based since 2001 in the Lower East Side at NYC-owned the Clemente Soto Velez Center. MDD’s mission is to educate NYC communities, & especially children; create, perform, & disseminate original artistic & scholarly work; & build intercultural community through dance arts. MDD's Founder, Executive & Artistic Director Dr. Mark DeGarmo has choreographed and produced over 100 dances and multiple tours to 12 countries. He curates MDD's Virtual Salon Performance Series for Social Change in its 16th year that has since 2019 produced 566 dance artists from 23 US states and 31 countries. MDD's Global Dance Circle for Social Change has since 2020 produced 10 seasons to "hold hands" without recognizing or disregarding global boundaries, borders, and barriers including 805 dance participants from 25 US states and 41 countries. https://markdegarmodance.org, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Vimeo.
