“Ago!” Senakhu Donald’s voice rings out in the stone gymnasium filled with drums and women of African descent. “Ame!” A dozen voices call back. This is a practice session for the Intergenerational ...

University of Kwa-Zulu Natal provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. This is a hymn to an African woman who has inspired not only African dancers but a global community of artists to ...

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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 ...

Growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in the 1950s, Kariamu Welsh was enchanted by the older girls and their double Dutch jump rope moves. When she was old enough to join in, she ...

Is it possible that rhythms pounded out on African drums can have a healing effect on our troubled world? After sitting in on a practice session of Ballet Manden, a West African drum, dance and ...

They came from halfway around the world, but the Ipintombi Dancers are proof that whether you're in South Africa or Seattle, being a kid isn't much different. The dance ensemble arrived two weeks ago ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — When Mirabel Fonyuy Umeni moved to West Michigan from Africa, her experience was like so many others. The career and life she led in her home country didn't translate here. But ...

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 ...

Ladies of Hip-Hop Dance Collective, the esteemed street dance company founded by Michele Byrd-McPhee in 2004, presented The Black Dancing Bodies Project: SpeakMyMind at the Orpheum Performing Arts ...

The “Water” dance challenge is the latest trend making a splash on TikTok. Currently one of the most popular songs on the app, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the sweet crooning of the snappy ...