Sukanya Burman Dance

Sukanya Burman Dance Sukanya Burman Dance is an Upstate NY-based Modern & Indian Classical Dance Company. Curator & Presenter of the Jamestown Dance Festival.

‼️A Quick Update from SBD 💜Our fall classes were originally scheduled to begin September 21. After a very full Jamestown...
09/21/2026

‼️A Quick Update from SBD 💜

Our fall classes were originally scheduled to begin September 21. After a very full Jamestown Dance Festival, followed immediately by another full week of performances and travel for SBD, we realized we needed a little time to catch our breath, catch up, and prepare to welcome everyone back into the studio.

‼️Our fall session will now begin October 5 and run through December 10. Please see the attached infographic for the weekly class schedule.

We also have some wonderful pop-ups and events ahead:

Indigenous Peoples’ Day Yoga with Andrea John and Kara Bemis
October 12 | 11:00 AM–12:15 PM

Art in Flux / Rasa Dialogues with Parisha Rajbhandari, Juliet Irving, and Sukanya Burman
October 22 | 7:00 PM | 2nd Space

K-Pop Choreography Workshop with Star Larson
October 29 | 7:00 PM

Prenatal Yoga with Kara Bemis
For expectant parents and parents with little ones
Last Sundays of October, November, and December | 10:00–11:00 AM

Winter Solstice Celebration with Kara Bemis and Andrea Dimaio
December 20 | 5:00–6:30 PM

Register for classes and pop-ups here: https://www.sukanyaburman.com/class-calendar

Save your spot for Art in Flux here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/art-in-flux-season--3

More pop-ups and events will be announced soon. For now, save the dates. We look forward to being back in the studio with you!

LAST CALL: Due to high demand for tonight's 7 PM Troy Lingelbach's International Lover show, we have released 10 additio...
09/10/2026

LAST CALL:

Due to high demand for tonight's 7 PM Troy Lingelbach's International Lover show, we have released 10 additional tickets for our last min buyers ( thanks to our volunteer, staff and artists who generously gave up their seats so you can experience this fabulous show).

Show starts at 7 pm. Doors open at 6 pm.

Cash Bar available.

Get your tickets asap! Don't wait till the last min. We'd hate to turn you away.

Tickets 🎫 :

Happy Labor Day.Today, while we talk about workers, unions, wages, dignity, and the history of the American labor moveme...
09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day.

Today, while we talk about workers, unions, wages, dignity, and the history of the American labor movement, I want to remember something often left out of that history: Dancers were there too.

During the Great Depression, dancers organized alongside workers. The New Dance Group, founded in New York in 1932, performed at union gatherings, demonstrations, marches, community spaces, and picket lines. Their dances confronted hunger, unemployment, racism, fascism, war, and exploitation.

And they weren't interested in keeping dance inside elite institutions.

Classes cost 10 cents. Within a year, the New Dance Group had more than 300 members. Dance wasn't sitting politely on the sidelines of the labor movement. Dance was inside it.

During the Depression, the federal government even employed dancers through the WPA's Federal Dance Project. Dancers got paid work in performance, choreography, and teaching with wages of $23.65/week in the 1930's 👀

Nearly a century later, we are very comfortable talking about what dance gives us: culture, beauty, community, tourism, education, entertainment. But we are much less comfortable talking about the workers who produce it. Because dance has an economy.

A performance creates work for theaters, technicians, musicians, photographers, designers, administrators, hotels, restaurants, transportation, marketing, and more.

And somewhere in the middle of that economy is a dancer or choreographer, often working project to project, piecing together multiple jobs, without the healthcare, retirement, paid leave, or stability we recognize as victories of the labor movement.

There is something strange about an economy being generated around an art form while the people whose bodies and ideas generate it remain some of the least economically secure people within it.

At SBD, we think about this constantly. We are an arts organization, yes. We are also an employer of creative labor.

Dance doesn't exist outside the history of labor. It is part of it.

So today, Happy Labor Day to those whose work happens in factories, hospitals, classrooms, restaurants, farms, offices and construction sites.
And yes, rehearsal studios too!

Address

106 E 2nd Street, Studio 3A
Jamestown, NY
14701

Opening Hours

Monday 12pm - 3pm
5:30pm - 9:30pm
Tuesday 12pm - 3pm
5:30pm - 8pm
Wednesday 12pm - 7:30pm
Thursday 12pm - 3pm
Friday 12pm - 5pm

Telephone

+17167208219

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