Contemporary dance piece gracefully combines styles to share heavenly story “Grace,” a piece choreographed by Ronald K. Brown, fuses traditional African American dance with contemporary styles to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The performance by Ghetto Kids on Britain's Got Talent won them new fans across the world. Screengrab/Britain's Got Talent/YouTube ...

A South African dancer and choreographer, she was known as a fearless creative force who brought African dance styles to traditional pieces like “Swan Lake.” By Isabella Kwai and Roslyn Sulcas Dada ...

For one night only, a show at Cincinnati’s Aronoff Center will mix traditional African dance styles and rhythm with contemporary art forms.Step Afrika takes the state at the Aronoff Center on Tuesday, ...

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 ...

If you walked by Mulberry Arts Studios in the past couple of weeks, there's a chance you heard the sound of drums. Not just any drums — traditional African drums, called djembe, that are so ...

Who are the organizations behind this convening? IABD is dedicated to preserving and promoting “dance by people of African ancestry or origin,” and strives to ensure that this art form is “revered, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Esraa Warda, who grew up in Brooklyn, takes the North African dances she learned as a child and brings them to the stage and dance studio. By Madison ...

Dancing is a way of life in South Africa. From the energetic footwork of isiPantsula, born in Sophiatown and Alexandra during the 1950s as a form of resistance to apartheid, to the explosive beats of ...