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Southern African traditional dance is not just a cultural expression but also an amazing way to increase flexibility ...
From its rhythmic movements to expressive gestures, African dance is an integral part of the continent's cultural heritage ...
Art can take many forms but for one dance group in Lake Worth Beach, they're teaching their members and the community all about African culture through the beat of drums and traditional African ...
Christa Fatou recently led a dance class in an old move. Old as from the early 1200s to the 1600s - during the time of the Mali empire. Old as in being accompanied by African drums and not pop, h… ...
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! Take ...
Thato Qofela first performed 'pantsula', a symbol of Black South African culture and resistance to the apartheid regime, in his childhood backyard. Now, he is helping to revive the dance style and ...
Willy Souly’s first Djanjoba dance circle in Burkina Faso did not involve a lot of dancing. “Everyone was expecting me to move and, growing up shy, I froze for almost an entire minute ...
Dance enthusiasts, artists, scholars, students and practitioners gathered on the Connecticut College campus for the groundbreaking “Igniting Emancipatory Possibilities through African Diaspora Dance” ...
African Diaspora Dance & Drum Festival Friday, August 5, through Sunday, August 7, at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, 212 NE 59th Ter., Miami, and the Miramar Cultural Center, 2400 Civic Center ...
Cultural dance classes abound on Long Island — Indian, Irish, Hispanic, Korean, West African and more. Children don’t have to be part of the culture to enroll.