Twenty-five dance companies from across Africa have showcased their talent at the African Dance Biennial in Senegal.

The African Dance Biennial, Africa's largest contemporary dance showcase, took place in Toubab Dialao, Senegal. The event ...

The Department of Dance at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance presents Touch a Breath — The Body Tells, an MFA Thesis performance choreographed by Gloria Ahlijah (Sitso) at the Dance Building Friday ...

The dance world mourned Tuesday the internationally acclaimed South African dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo, who died in the hospital over the weekend at age 39. Masilo died unexpectedly on ...

When most people think of African dance they imagine celebratory, picture-postcard ritualized movements—swooping arms, undulant shoulders, thundering foot-stamps. But there's a revolutionary cadre of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MARRAKECH – It wasn’t that long ago that filmmakers Maba Ba and Mamadou Dia were touring Senegal with an inflatable screen so that ...

Korma Aguh-Stuckmayer founded Afrocontigbo, a dance company that share African contemporary dance. Korma Aguh-Stuckmayer founded Afrocontigbo, a Minnesota dance company set out to share African ...

For dancer Anique Ayiboe, entering the world of "The Rite of Spring" has been a journey of discovery. The Togolese dancer, who has been traveling and performing the renowned 1975 Pina Bausch piece ...

Performances in N.Y.C. A company of dancers from across Africa perform Bausch’s canonical work around the world. “I’ve always felt that this was an African dance,” said Germaine Acogny. Dancers, drawn ...

At its premiere in 1913, Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring shocked audiences and divided critics. The ballet centred around a straightforward yet brutal narrative – a community ...

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 ...

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 ...