Stafford Berry Jr., director of Indiana University's African American Dance Company, was recently honored in the first group of artisans and folk-artisans given the Midwest Culture Bearers Award. We ...

Dr. Charles ”Chuck” Davis founded Dance Africa in Brooklyn in 1977, thereby creating the country’s first festival solely devoted to the legacy of African dance. From that modest beginning at the ...

In West African dance, the rhythm of the drums and the movement of the dancer work together in unison, almost as one colorful, throbbing body. Other styles, from ballet to modern, disconnect the two; ...

ATLANTA - "Listen, and let your body move." That was the advice we received last year ahead of a unique festival in Atlanta -- and this weekend, we're ready to do it all over again. The 14th annual ...

Dancers performing Amaniyea Payne's piece, "Evolve As We Enter." The dance department at UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts opens a four-performance run of its Winterdances 2016 series, titled ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Rae Kala is a traveler — Central America, Mexico, Santa Cruz in California, West Africa — but Port Townsend pulls her back, again and again. In the past, she helped assemble an African ...

During his senior year at Atlanta’s Emory University as an African studies student, Kokayi Postell decided to study abroad in Ghana. It wasn’t long before he fell in love with the country’s rich ...

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As Black History Month winds down, a dance group in Encinitas is inviting the community to immerse themselves in West African dance this weekend. "To wrap up Black History month, I added something ...