"We're going to walk this show across America!" Oscar-winning actor-producer Louis Gossett Jr. told the cheering audience Thursday night at the U.S. premiere of "African Footprint" at the Contemporary ...

The beat of the drums Saturday poured out of Tallahassee Community College as people engaged in drum and dance workshops during the Florida African Dance Festival. The workshops were filled with ...

On an August evening on the second floor of the Fitness Works gymnasium in Detroit’s New Center, a dance class is in full swing as six women step up a storm. They make sweeping movements with their ...

The 20th anniversary celebration of Giwayen Mata, an award-winning, soul-stirring, all-sistah, dance, percussion, and vocal ensemble, will take place in Atlanta on June 13 through 16 showcasing an ...

Baba Chuck Davis had a way of standing out in a crowd. A mountain of a man who stood six feet six inches tall, he had no choice. But Davis’s stage presence, somehow, was even larger than his frame.

The incisive Djembe drumming of Brytiece Wallace sets the scene. Akim Funk Buddha ripples bodily suggestions of South African ...

Mthuthuzeli November was determined to get out of his impoverished home town. Now he has his work alongside George Balanchine ...

“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 ...