The Y’s Harkness Dance Center wraps up its 2007-2008 Sundays @ Three Dance Performance Season with a Presentation of Up-and-Coming Artists Sunday, May 11, 3:00 PM 92nd Street Y (1395 Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street) TICKETS & INFO: $10, www.92Y.org or 212.415.5500

On Sunday, May 11, New York City high school choreographers and dancers gather to perform their own dances at the 92nd Street Y – the Jewish cultural and community center in Manhattan that Agnes de Mille called “the cradle of the modern dance movement,” and where luminaries like Martha Graham, Doris Humprhey, José Limón, Alvin Ailey and Mark Morris have performed, rehearsed and taught.

High on Dance: The Next Generation is the last program this season in the 92nd Street Y’s “Sundays @ Three,” a dance performance series that features professional dancers showing repertory and works-in-progress.

On May 11 Sundays at Three makes room for the next generation of dancers and choreographers, including Kadeem Alston-Roman, a Brooklyn 18-year-old who is following in his mother’s and aunt’s footsteps – they are both dancers. He has choreographed a work in honor of his mother – and is pleased he’s showing it on Mother’s Day!

Ntshadi Mofokeng, a 19-year-old South African who attributes her poise to the flamenco dance she studied as a child. She wants to study international relations, but she plans to keep dancing and choreographing. She says that dancing is “the one place where I can let my body do what it wants to—I’m not tied to the obligations of the mind.”

Brooklyn native Kadeem Alston-Roman is following in the footsteps of his mother and aunt both dancers. He has choreographed a dance honoring his mother. And Jahairah Diaz, 17, finds spiritual comfort in dance after a rocky childhood that included separation from her mother and living in a shelter. “Sometimes I just want to rip my chest open and show who I am,” she says, explaining how performance and choreography give her a way to face the world.

Ntshadi, Kadeem and Jahairah, along with four other kids, auditioned before a panel of New York dance professionals (including acclaimed choreographer Doug Varone) back in February.

WHAT: NYC High School Teen Dancers and Choreographers Perform Original Works

WHEN: Sunday, May 11, 3:00 pm

WHERE: 92nd Street Y (1395 Lexington Avenue, at 92nd Street)

 TICKETS: $10, www.92Y.org or 212.415.5500

For More Info, please visit www.92Y.org

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