About 20 people waited for Thomas Radtke’s African dance class to begin Sunday afternoon at Yoga Body and Balance, the yoga studio Thomas owns with his wife, Tataya.

This is African Dance. The class was introduced almost 32 years ago, and it remains an integral part of Saint Ann’s today. In 1991, a teacher named Júlio L., ...

And behind each of Barnard’s West African dance classes is one duo: Maguette Camara and his accompanist drummer Mangue Sylla . Camara began teaching West African dance classes at Barnard in 1997, but ...

Google “North African dance class” in the United States, and you will probably come across fusion (otherwise known as “tribal”) belly-dancing. The style draws from a hodgepodge of dance ...

N’Fungola Sibo has offered West African dance and drumming classes to a diverse range of participants and levels of experience for about 15 years.

The annual class is free and open to the community every Tuesday evening. “What we do is we take a rhythm and we stick to that rhythm every month,” said African dance instructor Angela Gibson.

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.

The group, Encinitas West African Dance, holds classes every month with new teachers. When the weather permits, those classes take place at Encinitas Community Park.

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 ...

"African dance, it's something very important," said Doumbia. The two teach African dance and drumming classes at the Hannah Kahn Dance Company . The joy that comes from sharing their culture is ...