Rhythmic Arts Center NYC

Rhythmic Arts Center NYC A home for rhythm, movement, and cultural connection

Coming up this Monday 3.2 | 7:00-8:30PM with & .wyb | Improvisation Workshop open to tap dancers/musiciansSliding scale...
02/26/2026

Coming up this Monday 3.2 | 7:00-8:30PM with & .wyb | Improvisation Workshop open to tap dancers/musicians

Sliding scale $10-25 | Registration link in bio 🔗✨

Melissa Almaguer is a Mexico-born, New York City–based multidisciplinary artist who uses tap dance to explore storytelling through sound and movement. Inspired by surrealism and natural soundscapes, her work unfolds as real-time compositions often guided by visual scores. Her projects include Alebrijes, Mujer Agua, Angel of Water / Angel of Air, and praesens. A recipient of the 2025 Next Jazz Legacy, 2024 M³ Mutual Mentorship for Musicians, and 2023 This Is A Movement: Collective Imagining, she has collaborated with leading musicians and tap artists and performed at major NYC venues. She teaches at Steps on Broadway, sharing tap dance as a transformative creative practice.

————

Hans Young Binter is an American musician, pianist and composer based in New York City, working within the city’s vibrant creative music scene in addition to collaborations across musical styles and artistic disciplines. Their practice is primarily improvisatory, and seeks to utilize the multitude of expressive possibilities that improvised music can contain, all while fostering a music-making environment grounded in core elements of collective creation such as conversation and ritual.

so excited to have Jungle in the house 🏡 beginning this Friday 4:30-6:00PM for an Open Level House Class! $22 drop-in | ...
02/25/2026

so excited to have Jungle in the house 🏡 beginning this Friday 4:30-6:00PM for an Open Level House Class! $22 drop-in | Class pack coming soon ✨ be on the look out 👀 sign up link in bio 🔗

This open-level House class blends foundations, drills, form, approach. And technique to deepen rhythm, coordination, musical connection. Emphasis is placed on culture, community, and developing your individual voice within the voice within the style.

Born to a family of native New Yorkers who moved to North Carolina, Shango Nijah Ra Bartley Robinson, (aka. Jungle) is a New York based Street & Club dancer. Shango first learned how to dance and appreciate music from his parents who were Street & Club Dancers and Emcees during the1980s and 90s.
​
Shango Bartley, known as Jungle, is a Queens-based street and club dancer with roots in North Carolina. A member of Raiders Of Concrete and part of “It’s Showtime NYC” and “The Crazy Natives,” Jungle specializes in House Dance and Hip Hop. Open to all levels, his classes focus on preserving culture, fostering creativity, and building community, providing a welcoming and dynamic space for dancers to grow and express themselves.

02/25/2026

Have you heard officially we will begin having Sabar drum lessons every Wednesdays 3:30pm-5:00pm at the house! 🏡 No pre-sign ups. Just show up! $30/class

If you are a beginner, join ‘s Drumming 101 on Mondays 6:00pm-7:00pm to warm up to rhythms!

video curtesy Daniel Persaud ✨

Join Max Pollak for a deep-dive into earth-grown groove and ancient chants to unlock the gates to stratospheric harmony....
02/18/2026

Join Max Pollak for a deep-dive into earth-grown groove and ancient chants to unlock the gates to stratospheric harmony. We practice rhythms, melodies, and moves - alone and together. Through the coordination of clapping, stepping and singing together, the layers fuse, and sweep us up into the collective consciousness that only music and art can create.

Brand new to tap? This class is for you.Designed for absolute beginners, this welcoming class introduces the fundamental...
02/18/2026

Brand new to tap? This class is for you.

Designed for absolute beginners, this welcoming class introduces the fundamentals of tap dance in a clear, supportive, and musical way—no prior experience needed.

Led by master tap dancer Max Pollak, students will learn basic steps, rhythm patterns, coordination, and how to make music with their feet. The focus is on groove, listening, and building confidence at an easy, steady pace, with room to ask questions and play.

No experience required. All bodies welcome. Come tap your first rhythms.

Join us for a surprise special evening on Lunar New Year tonight Tuesday Feb 17 for a yoga session series from 6:00-7:00...
02/17/2026

Join us for a surprise special evening on Lunar New Year tonight Tuesday Feb 17 for a yoga session series from 6:00-7:00PM with .joy and 7:15-8:45PM (with gong) with in-person at the house 🏡or online . Sign up link in bio 🔗✨

2026 opens as a threshold year — a cycle of renewal, redirection, and courageous new beginnings. This class series is designed to align your practice with the rare convergence of Lunar New Year, New Moon, and a Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse — a moment traditionally associated with accelerated change, awakening, and the opening of unexpected pathways. We will treat this window not as a prediction — but as a practice portal.

A solar eclipse is often described as a super-charged new moon — a reset point that interrupts old patterns and invites a new stream of awareness. Combined with the Lunar New Year’s symbolism of rebirth and renewal, this becomes a powerful container for intention, purification, and conscious redirection. The guiding mantra of this series is: expect the unexpected — and meet it with presence.

Across the series, we will work with grounded, accessible yogic and contemplative tools to support transition and transformation, including breathwork, mantra, meditation, journaling, and embodied movement. Emphasis is placed on nervous system regulation and nature-based awareness so that change is integrated rather than overwhelming.

Each session functions as both a standalone class and part of a progressive arc — laying one stone at a time on a path that is still revealing itself. Rather than forcing outcomes, we cultivate readiness, resilience, and receptivity.

*especially supportive for anyone sensing a turning point, standing at a crossroads, or feeling called toward a new chapter — even if the details are not yet clear.

Come practice at the edge of renewal. Bring curiosity, steadiness, and a willingness to listen for what is ready to emerge.

02/02/2026

Tomorrow and every Monday 6:00-7:00PM Foundation of Rhythm: Drumming 101 with at the house 🏡 Registration link in bio 🔗✨

Some scientifically supported benefits of drumming and rhythm learning, drawn from neuroscience, psychology, motor learning, and health research:

🧠 Brain & Cognitive Benefits

1. Improved neural connectivity
Drumming requires coordinated use of both hands (often asymmetrically), engaging both hemispheres of the brain and strengthening cross-hemispheric communication via the corpus callosum.

•Studies using EEG and fMRI show increased integration between motor, auditory, and executive brain regions in trained percussionists.
•Rhythm training is linked to enhanced timing, sequencing, and pattern recognition skills.

2. Enhanced executive function
Rhythm practice improves:
•Attention control
•Working memory
•Cognitive flexibility
•Inhibitory control

Rhythm-based training programs have been shown to support executive function development in children and older adults.

3. Language & reading support
Rhythm perception and production are strongly correlated with language processing.

Research shows rhythm training can improve:
•Phonological awareness
•Speech timing
•Reading fluency
•Auditory discrimination

This is why rhythm interventions are sometimes used with dyslexia and speech disorders.

⸝

🫀 Stress, Mood & Nervous System Regulation

4. Reduced stress hormones
Group drumming studies show:
•Decreased cortisol levels
•Lowered stress response
•Improved mood markers

Clinical group drumming interventions have been used with trauma survivors, addiction recovery, and chronic illness populations.

5. Increased immune response
Several controlled studies found group drumming increased:
•Natural killer (NK) cell activity
•Immune system markers
•Anti-inflammatory responses

This has been observed in cancer support groups and stress-reduction settings.

Bet you didn’t know 👁️ get in class!

01/30/2026

throwback to our first Time Share when ❤️‍🔥 popped in to visit resulted in an alchemical reaction ☄️ captured and edit by 👁️🎥 Reminding you that tomorrow night’s Saturday Jan 31 Time Share is ON ✅ at 7pm. RSVP link in bio ✨🔗

This is a showcase, a jam, and a gathering rooted in rhythm and community. Join us for an evening of performance, experimentation, and exchange featuring NYC tap dancers, educators, and choreographers alongside electronic musicians, underground bands, and contemporary movement artists.

The night honors tap’s deep lineage while making space for new voices—improvisation, composition, and cross-disciplinary exploration are all welcome here. Come as you are. Bring what you’re working on, what you’re curious about, or what you’ve been holding close.

As the evening unfolds, the space opens into a shared floor and jam. Bring your instrument, poetry, movement, sound, comedy, or improvised offerings. We’ll meet on a sprung wood floor, surrounded by percussive instruments, synths, and a room built for listening, risk-taking, and collective groove.

This is a space for artists to gather, experiment, and be witnessed—without pressure, without hierarchy, and in rhythm with one another.

Time Share is back one more round this month this coming Saturday Jan 31st at 7pm at the house! 🏡 Pulling up these memor...
01/29/2026

Time Share is back one more round this month this coming Saturday Jan 31st at 7pm at the house! 🏡 Pulling up these memories from this one Time Share where .kumagai surprised us to remind you all the fun we had! We will be hosting Time Share monthly this season (instead of bi-weekly) on every last Saturday of the month until June! Save the dates! And submit to show work or RSVP link in bio ✨🔗

1/31
2/28
3/28
4/25
5/30
6/27

It’s a showcase! It’s a jam! It’s an absolute hang! Come witness performances, electronic experiments, improvisations, and compositions from NYC’s mosts killing tap dancers, teachers and choreographers to your favorite underground band, emerging contemporary choreographers..come as you are and share with us your secret (or not so secret) talents!

The night will morph into an open floor/jam, so bring your instrument, poetry, standup act, choreography, compositions, and improvisatory stylings. We’ve got a beautiful sprung wood floor, a plethora of percussive instruments/synths, and the best vibes.

01/19/2026

If there’s a chance for peace, the 🗝️ key might be in the rhythm! reposting of Japanese and South Korea President drumming (they clearly need some lessons…) to remind you that we do have drum lesson TODAY and every Monday 6:00-7:00PM with 🥁 sign up link in bio 🔗 or just show up!

Address

175 E105th Street
New York, NY
10029

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 9pm
Tuesday 9am - 9pm
Wednesday 9am - 9pm
Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 9pm
Saturday 9am - 9pm
Sunday 9am - 9pm

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Rhythmic Arts Center NYC posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Featured

Share

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn
Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share via Email
Share on WhatsApp Share on Instagram Share on Telegram

Category