Queens Dances Together in Long Island City

By MOHAMED FARGHALY

mfarghaly@queensledger.com

With the Manhattan skyline glowing across the river, the Queens Boro Dance Festival turned Gantry Plaza State Park into a lively celebration of culture, rhythm, and community on July 26.

Now in its 11th season, the annual summer festival tours outdoor spaces across Queens, spotlighting only Queens-based dance companies. Saturday’s performance brought together six of the 21 groups participating in this year’s borough-wide tour, each one representing a different cultural corner of Queens.

“We’re very proud to be a platform that really tries to represent a cross section of the world’s borough, because we all know that we are the biggest and the best borough,” a representative announced to the crowd

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