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 ...

Overnight, Tyla became the world’s most beloved pop star. With her Grammy award-winning breakout single “Water” being the first song by a South African soloist to enter the US Billboard Hot 100 in 55 ...

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 ...

This week, three performances mark the 20th anniversary of “Agbedidi,” UF’s annual celebration of African dance and music. Presented by the UF School of Theatre and Dance, “Agbedidi” runs 7:30 p.m.

Dr. Francesca Negro is an independent researcher in Comparative Literature and Performance studies. She is affiliated researcher with The Centre for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon ...

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 ...

Drexel University’s Dance and Africana Studies programs will host a most respected dance scholar and choreographer, Dr. Kariamu Welsh, the creator of the African dance technique Umfundalai, on Oct. 17 ...

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 ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Rae Kala is a traveler — Central America, Mexico, Santa Cruz in California, West Africa — but Port Townsend pulls her back, again and again. In the past, she helped assemble an African ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Alastair Macaulay EVERY year the Brooklyn Academy of Music holds its DanceAfrica festival. Other cities have their own versions, and they serve a ...