Outdoor activities like hiking or walking through natural landscapes are common in many African communities. These ...

Toe-tapping and clapping, an enthusiastic audience at the Historic Grove Theater, gleefully watched well-trained area residents perform West African, Korean and South Indian dances. Ramya S. Kapadia, ...

ATLANTA - "Listen, and let your body move." That was the advice we received last year ahead of a unique festival in Atlanta -- and this weekend, we're ready to do it all over again. The 14th annual ...

Les Ballets Africains productions are meant for big stages. Their larger-than-life costumes, diverse collection of African drums and theatrical storytelling call for a giant space, but the national ...

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

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron.... Senior dancers and singers who are part of the Youngstown Harambee Dancers Organization display plenty of color while performing African dances as part of the ...

From the townships of South Africa, the coffee plantations of Kenya, the sea breezes off the Ivory Coast and the sprawling metropolis of Nigeria comes a vibrant, rich and intoxicating blend of MOBO ...

This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities ...

Angel Anderson is a performing artist, scholar, and educator from the south suburbs of Chicago. Encompassing various dance forms rooted in Africanist traditions, her movement archive includes street ...

Stafford Berry Jr., director of Indiana University's African American Dance Company, was recently honored in the first group of artisans and folk-artisans given the Midwest Culture Bearers Award. We ...