Jasmine Ceniceros of Troy tagged along with a friend to an African dance class when she was a teenager in New York City and figured she’d just watch. When she got there, the Senegalese teacher told ...

Step Afrika! is a world-renowned performance group that combines the traditional art of stepping from HBCU fraternities and sororities with modern dance elements and African dance elements to create a ...

Black History Month has begun, and Indiana State University kicks into gear with a series of events expanding all throughout the month to celebrate the accomplishments and the overcame trials ...

For one night only, a show at Cincinnati’s Aronoff Center will mix traditional African dance styles and rhythm with contemporary art forms.Step Afrika takes the state at the Aronoff Center on Tuesday, ...

‘Igniting Emancipatory Possibilities through African Diaspora Dance’ summit brings experts and new perspective to campus. Dance enthusiasts, artists, scholars, students and practitioners gathered on ...

Editor's Note: This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities and their impact on our region. The series builds on The Star ...

MACON, Ga. — Sounds like there's a lot going on at the Hayiya Dance Theatre. This dance studio and cultural arts center dances to the beat of its own drum, but to founder Pilar Lowden– this is what ...

Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected with ...

Performances in N.Y.C. A company of dancers from across Africa perform Bausch’s canonical work around the world. “I’ve always felt that this was an African dance,” said Germaine Acogny. Dancers, drawn ...

Just as great pressure creates diamonds out of coal — the world’s largest diamonds come, after all, from South Africa — man’s injustice to his fellow man can paradoxically create great art: an art of ...

If you walked by Mulberry Arts Studios in the past couple of weeks, there's a chance you heard the sound of drums. Not just any drums — traditional African drums, called djembe, that are so ...

Selah Thompson (front) teaches how the skirt is used in Afro Cuban dance to mimic natural movements seen in nature at the Traditional Music Society dance class. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star ...