The Thiossane West African Dance Institute is bringing the sights, sounds and motion of West Africa to Ohio State this week. The Thursday, Friday and Sunday performances in Sullivant Hall will be ...

Pearl Primus (also known as Omowale) was a pioneer of modern dance, dance as protest, and African dance in the United States. She was also cited as an inspiration by acclaimed artists such as Camille ...

Lliane Loots works for the Centre for Creative Arts (UKZN) and is the artistic director/curator of the JOMBA! Contemporary Dance festival Now in its 23rd year, JOMBA! is a contemporary dance festival ...

Just as great pressure creates diamonds out of coal — the world’s largest diamonds come, after all, from South Africa — man’s injustice to his fellow man can paradoxically create great art: an art of ...

DanceAfrica photographed by Amitava Sarkar. Join NBC 5 and the Dallas Black Dance Theatre to experience a celebration of rich African heritage and ancestry, during the 16th Annual DanceAfrica ...

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town Amapiano is a soulful mix of grooves, sonic textures and moods that can be by turns hectic, smooth, melodic or ...

Ayodele is a Yoruba word meaning “joy in the home,” and the Chicago-based Ayodele Drum & Dance imparts the joy of these African arts through adult and youth classes, workshops and performances—all ...

MACON, Ga. — Sounds like there's a lot going on at the Hayiya Dance Theatre. This dance studio and cultural arts center dances to the beat of its own drum, but to founder Pilar Lowden– this is what ...

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The Marlin Miller Dance Residency Program (MMDRP) connects the Dance Program at Alfred University and the surrounding Alfred community with national and international dance artists. The residency ...