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Swing Night! Presented by Amanda Kupillas Dance + RiverArts Copy

May 21, 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Couple swing dancing on city street at night.

Swing Night!

Music: Vince Giordano and The Mini Hawks
Dance: Gaby Cook, Professional lindy hopper and instructor

Saturday, May 21
The Good Witch Coffee Bar
at Train Station, 134 Southside Ave
Hastings-on-Hudson

Tickets: 
Full Evening with Dance Instruction 7–10pm  $40 per person
Music and Open Dance (no instruction) 8–10pm  $30 per person

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Join RiverArts and Amanda Kupillas Dance for an exhilarating evening of music and dancing outdoors at the Good Witch Coffee Bar in Hastings-on-Hudson. Featuring Grammy-winning musician and bandleader Vince Giordano and his band The Mini Hawks and swing dance with professional lindy hopper, Gaby Cook.

Begin your evening at 7pm with Swing Dance instruction from Gaby Cook and her partner, who will guide you through all the steps you need to make an impression on the dance floor! (Dance will be taught with partners, however you do not need to have a partner to sign up!)

Live music begins at 8pm as Vince Giordano and the band transport you to another time under the stars, with NYC and the Palisades as your backdrop.

The Good Witch Coffee Bar will be open at 6:30 with wine, beverages, and other goodies for purchase.

Schedule

  • 6:30pm: Check-in and grab a drink at The Good Witch• 7:00-8:00pm: Swing Dance Group Lesson with Gaby Cook • 8:00-10:00pm: Vince Giordano and The Mini Hawks play and dance floor opens up to public
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Anna Aubry
as Amber
Anna Aubry is an actor and writer from Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. She is a recent graduate of Oberlin College’s theatre program, where she debuted her self-written, one-woman show FUNNY GIRL. and trained for a semester at the Moscow Art Theatre School. Previous educational theatre credits include Twilight Bowl (Maddy), The Misanthrope (Célimène), Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties (Betty #4), and The Cherry Orchard (Charlotta). Anna currently resides in Brooklyn, where she performs improv and stand-up comedy. She is thrilled to be working with Melanie and back in the Rivertowns for her first professional production.
Blake Brewer
as Leon
 Blake Brewer is a graduate from Syracuse University’s Musical Theatre program, originally from Los Angeles, California. Blake recently concluded the 2nd National Tour of Elf on The Shelf. Regionally, he has been seen in 42nd Street, Beauty and the Beast, Legally Blonde, Mamma Mia!, and The Drowsy Chaperone. Thanks to God and his family for their never-ending support.
Michelle Concha
as Rubenia
Michelle Concha lives in Ossining and is a graduate of the Juilliard School. She is Artistic Director of State of Play Productions and was Chair of the Ossining Arts Project, as well as the Executive Producer of the Ossining Jazz Festival. As an actor Michelle is fluent in both English and Spanish. She has recently been on made for Lifetime Movie Malicious Minds, A Good Cop, Blue Bloods, Law & Order:SVU and Dr. Death. Michelle has been the voice of Click the Camera in Go, Diego, Go! Video Games (Nickelodeon), various voices on Dora the Explorer Education Series, Burlington Coat Factory, Spokesperson for Carmax, Spanish voiceovers for Radio and TV. Michelle was a guest host on QVC, a cooking host on ragu.com and hosted her own series Friday w/Friends on FB shedding a spotlight on female entrepreneurs.
Polly Corman
as Mina
Polly's first show in over 30 years was The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Nighttime at Elwood Playhouse, which closed just as the world did! During her 30+ year "break" from acting she continued her study of human behavior as a private practice psychotherapist.
Ed Herbstman
as Dave
Ed Herbstman is an actor and writer originally from Chicago, and is married to writer/director Melanie Hoopes with whom he has two children and a dog. This is the 16th production written and directed by Melanie Hoopes that Ed has appeared in over the last 22 years, every single one of them incredible. Film: Love… Reconsidered, Hustlers, The Big Sick, Ode To Joy, Arthur - TV: White House Plumbers, Manifest, Search Party, Alpha House, Pinkalicious, 2Some, Little Hope - Theater: Second City TourCo, Laurie Stanton’s Sound Diet, Mantzoukas Brothers, Armando Show. Podcasts: Cinnamon Bear, The Truth .
Gregory Jones
as Clay
www.gregorycjones.com
Gregory Jones has been a professional actor for 25 years: on Broadway, films like Too Big To Fail, and TV shows like New Amsterdam, VEEP, and The Americans. Raised in Albuquerque, NM, Gregory also narrates audiobooks, including a new WWII history, One Square Mile of Hell (Penguin Random House), and he did a voice for Seth Rogen’s memoir Yearbook. Thanks, Melanie and RiverArts for letting me play!  Love to Barb and Hannah, my favorite wife and daughter. 
Sweta Keswani
as Anjali
After starring in some critically acclaimed and hugely popular prime time television series in India, Sweta Keswani moved to New York from Mumbai in 2010. She was last seen on New Amsterdam with Ryan Eggold, AMC’s Super-natural thriller Nos4a2 and on The Blacklist with James Spader. She recently completed working on Apple TV Plus’s Dark Comedy Anthology Series called Roar and Mayim Bialik’s first directorial feature As They Made Us with Dustin Hoffman and Candice Bergen, both releasing this April. She Co-produced and Co-wrote a short form web series called Struggle City which won Best Web-series at the Vegas Movie awards 2020. 

Details

Date:
May 21, 2022
Time:
6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Event Categories:
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Organizers

RiverArts
Amanda Kupillas Dance

Venue

The Good Witch Coffee Bar
134 Southside Ave
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706 United States + Google Map
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