For the Kawambe-Omowale African Drum & Dance troupe, performance serves as a form of self-care—and introduces the community to a traditional African art form. This story was produced at the 2022 ...

On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, students dance in lapas, West African wrap-around skirts, to the beat of a live drummer on a Djembe drum. The Barnard dance department’s West African dance classes ...

Black Dance-USA: A Celebration of Movement is more than a dance festival. It’s music. It’s song. It’s history and heritage. It’s a five-day, toe-tappin’, high-kickin’, jazz-jammin’, elbow-rubbin’, ...

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 ...

Maybelle Valenti, 9, of Sayville says she likes taking Irish dance classes because she likes the sparkly dresses she gets to wear. But her mother, Juliette, 41, a teacher, likes that her daughter is ...

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 ...

BRATTLEBORO -- The Interactive Arts Collective, in collaboration with the Windham Arts Council, announces the seventh annual Abene African Dance Festival with master dancer and drummer Caro Diallo, a ...

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.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Ballet Spartanburg is welcoming you to learn about West African dance. The annual class is free and open to the community every Tuesday evening. “What we do is we ...