Sleepy Hollow Performing Artists is now called Westchester Dance Artists!

Sleepy Hollow at Symphony Space

WDA presented four new works at Symphony Space in NYC as part of Artistic Dance Exchange competition and convention.
​Our dances were hits, winning the highest marks in their categories, as well as the "Most Entertaining Dance" award for Albert Guerzon's  "If You Dare".
Other choreographers included Davon Chance; Matt Anderson; Emelia Sikorsky and Kate Fishman. ​

Editors Picks-Best of Westchester 
Five Years Running

This award-winning, not-for-profit outfit is so synonymous with cutting-edge, authentic, superior-quality dance instruction that it’s getting embarrassing already. Debralyn Press, SHPA’s tireless artistic director, trolls New York City for the best and most relevant talent to teach these cool classes. Press is proud that many SHPA dancers grow up to become working professionals and return to SHPA to teach new generations of top-rockers and moonwalkers. “All of our kids,” she says, “are fierce.”

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Hip-Hop Hoopla

"Where to Pop ’n' Lock
in Westchester"
Westchester Magazine
by Morgan Dubin
July 22, 2009
Read article

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Winner of the Prestigious "Arts Award"

Sleepy Hollow Performing Artists is the proud recipient of the Westchester Arts Council's most prestigious award, recognizing an organization whose vision, commitment, and leadership enrich Westchester, its communities, and its citizens.
Irvington | Ardsley | Tarrytown | Briarcliff | Ossining | 

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Broadway, North Broadway! 

 Aug. 2015 Sleepy Hollow Performing Artists is so grateful for those who made our first ever fundraiser - Broadway, North Broadway! a tremendous success! In addition to appearances by our own company, we were privileged to have performances by Ester Barrosa (pictured) who sang a song from her lead role as "Kim" in Miss Saigon; Blake Whyte (Credits include "Fiero" from Wicked), who sang an original work; Michelle Dawson (Mama Mia) singing "The Winner Takes It All" from Mama Mia; and the incredible Jimmy Tate, who tapped and sang his own work! Thank you to all those who attended for helping to make the night a wild success! 

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Candy Canes and Cavaliers Meet Icons of the Hour

By Iris Hickey Arno

There’s Clara, and the Sugar Plum Fairy, and dancing snowflakes, break dancers, unicyclers, Brittany Spears, Dora the Explorer and…say what?  That’s right—all those characters appear in The Sleepy Hollow Performing Arts Center’s version of “The Nutcracker”—here dubbed “Nutcracker Now 2008”—which opens tonight (Dec. 12) at the Irvington Town Hall Theater and continues with two show tomorrow. 

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From Mouse to Boss

As a child and teenager, Press, now 45, progressed from mouse to angel to snowflake and on up the line with the Boston Ballet’s “Nutcracker.”  After earning a BFA in dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she went on to be a principal dancer with the Ballet of Contemporary Arts at Harkness House and the American Dance Machine, a company specializing in Broadway-style repertoire. Read article

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