It was made clear that current politics demanded attention and care not just to performance or production, but to the ...

For four decades, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based choreographer Ronald K. Brown has built a body of work rooted in African diasporic traditions and resonating with spiritual transcendence and rich storytelling.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Pearl Primus (also known as Omowale) was a pioneer of modern dance, dance as ...

On Nov. 16, Brown’s modern African dance group, OJA!, placed second at the Battle of African Student Organizations at Northeastern University. Co-captain Wura Adetola ’26 emphasized the group’s growth ...

A group of performers stepped and swayed in the sand at an open-air studio on the Senegalese coast as Germaine Acogny, known as the mother of contemporary African dance, called out to them. "Walk!

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Ginny Watts will teach African dance Saturday, July 13, in Bozeman. African dance is an exciting ...

WHEN the polyrhythms of West African dance meet the transformative drama of German tanztheater -- dance theater -- the result isn't culture shock but culture synchronicity. That's how Senegalese ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A class in African dance is offered to students wanting to learn this invigorating dance form.

“Try to understand what it is,” states the gloriously statuesque Gnapa Béatrice Kombé, describing her modern dance troupe TchéTché from the Ivory Coast. “Don’t say, ‘Ah, this is African dance.’ No, it ...