the purpose of each dance — whether to commemorate a celebration, tragedy or cultural ritual  — are perhaps as important as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Comfortable with trending on TikTok, the South African songstress has also been the face of a few viral dances, prompting hundreds ...

To experience the song and dance of West Africa this winter, you needn’t trek any farther than the University City Loop. This weekend, January 27 through 29, the Center of Creative Arts (COCA) will ...

Nii Armah Sowah dreaded teaching CU’s “African Dance — Ghanaian” during the pandemic. “The whole course is based on expression and connection,” said Sowah, who’s instructed African dance classes at CU ...

Now in its 23rd year, JOMBA! is a contemporary dance festival housed at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts, one of five festivals run by the Durban-based centre. It connects ...

Aspiring young dancers from Uganda made history this weekend when they stepped it out to perform jigs and reels at the first ever Irish dancing feis staged in Africa. Children from schools in Entebbe ...

There’s a lot of hype around amapiano. The South African dance music genre has dominated dancefloors since 2019, spreading from South Africa to West Africa and now to the world. But it’s time to peer ...

The Brooklyn Academy of Music began its 46th annual Dance Africa Festival in Fort Greene on Saturday. Bazaar is the Brooklyn Academy of Music's ode to bringing and embracing African culture to ...

Thirty-seven years ago choreographer Dr. Charles Davis founded Dance Africa in New York City. The festival of dance, based in African cultures has since become the largest celebration of African Dance ...