Various East African student associations will host their third annual collaborative event showcasing East African cultures through music, food, games and dance. Peace in the East will take place at 6 ...

Brooklyn's Memorial Day weekend tradition returns with performances, films, classes, visual art, and the iconic outdoor ...

Bodies, voices and drums blended and exploded with frenzied energy as the Boka N’deye Pan African Drum and Dance Company brought “Festival Africaine!” to Hayden Hall Saturday night. Performing the ...

What types of dances do you teach at the Bi-Okoto Center? Primarily we focus on traditional West African dance. We sometimes have students who want to try dances from other regions in East or South ...

Africa’s most celebrated dancer and choreographer, Germaine Acogny, turns 80 on 28 May. I have had the privilege of meeting the Senegalese artist, learning from her, and interviewing her as part of my ...

This article is one of the winning submissions from the New York Post Scholars Contest, presented by Command Education. Students form a circle in the middle of the room, as loud, pounding music plays ...

Sylvester “Sunshine” Lee, 73, poses for a portrait at the Sunshine Cultural Arts Center in East St. Louis on Thursday, March 5, 2026. He has taught African drumming and dance to children since the ...

Selah Thompson (front) teaches how the skirt is used in Afro Cuban dance to mimic natural movements seen in nature at the Traditional Music Society dance class. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star ...