Mr. Harold Stephan shares congratulations to Leah D'Silva, Inga Edwards, and Macy Jiang who joined NYC's Song of Hope Project! The final production has been released!
Building on last year's New York City Song of Hope Project, the NYCDOE’s Office of Arts & Special Projects worked in partnership with the Songwriters Hall of Fame to engage over 200 students across the city (Grades K-12) in this unique collaboration. To begin this interactive citywide songwriting and dance project, student songwriters began by crafting the song's chorus. Student dancers then choreographed a group dance for the chorus and contributed dance solos. Inspired by the dancers' work, student songwriters wrote verses, a pre-chorus, and a bridge to complete the song.
Through this "dance-inspired-by-music-inspired-by-dance" experience, students leaned into their JOY and STRENGTH and modeled DETERMINATION as they created this original song and original choreography that proclaim, “Nothing is going to stop me!"
ENJOY and please do share "NYC Strong" with your students and their families! Click Here to view "NYC Strong".
