The School: The Cora School for Dance

Watch a video of our recent student concert

Fall 2011 class registration is coming soon! Check out the class schedule.

Click here for a full schedule and details (pdf version)

Email Education Coordinator Katie Dean for registration or more information on the classes available or call us at 718-858-2520.

The Space: The Cora Studio

The Cora Studio is home to the professional company Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance and the company's educational initiative the Cora School for Dance. The Cora Studio is a 700 sq. ft. unobstructed space that is available for a sliding scale fee to choreographers and dance artists. Click here for more information on the Cora Studio.

The Company: Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance

Cora Dance is the critically acclaimed professional dance company performing the collaborative works of choreographer Shannon Hummel. Click here for information on our upcoming performances and events.

“…the modern-dance version of an eloquent short-story writer.”
-Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

“..uncommonly committed performers in choreography as vivid and true as a Eudora Welty story.”
-Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

Cora Inc. strives to bring the work of choreographer and arts educator Shannon Hummel to the widest possible audience, with particular focus on communities who lack performing arts experiences due to limited financial resources or other isolating factors. Cora believes that creating a culture of trust and respect between diverse people allows all those involved in a creative endeavor - artists, students, audiences and community members - to learn from one another openly, take risks together and connect more deeply. Through the professional contemporary dance company, Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance, and its educational arm, Cora School for Dance, Cora brings high quality programs and performances to communities across the country.

“Hummel creates an affecting world. The results are enormously sophisticated. The choreography quivers with subtle emotions like the writing of Virginia Woolf.” 
-Tobi Tobias, The Village Voice

Support Cora Dance! If you would like to make a contribution, you can do so here through Network for Good. Your support is greatly appreciated!

Cora, Inc. is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization which consists of the professional company – Cora Dance – and the educational arm of that company – The Cora School for Dance. Cora's programs have been supported this year by the The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, The Copper-Beech Foundation, The Brooklyn Community Foundation, The Brooklyn Arts Council/The New York State Council on the Arts Regrant Program, Michael & Cornelia Bessie Foundation, The Robertson Foundation, Materials for the Arts and by our generous individual contributors. We are proud that our programs have received community support in the areas of promotion and/or programming by Martha Bowers Dance Theater Etcetera, Red Hook Rise, PS 15, PAVE Academy Charter School, Red Hook Initiative, Red Hook Economic Development, among other generous institutions.