Dance is an important part of the Black experience. The art of expression tells a people’s story that words cannot convey. A Knoxville teacher is retiring after 27 years of teaching West African dance ...

Discover how the National Museum of African Art preserves and promotes African culture through educational events and ...

EAST FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (WABC) -- As we wrap up celebrating Black History Month, a Brooklyn family teaching African dance and drumming in public schools lost its rhythm after not getting paid for ...

During his senior year at Atlanta’s Emory University as an African studies student, Kokayi Postell decided to study abroad in Ghana. It wasn’t long before he fell in love with the country’s rich ...

Olivia Stepp said she's been "bit" by the rippling drum rhythms and authentic dances from a rich Guinea culture built on generations of storytelling. Stepp's classic ballet training did not prepare ...

The world of dance isn't usually our thing here at Listen Up, but an old source of mine, Kofi Quaye, brought Nana Anim to the Post-Standard to say hello, and that perked my interest. Anim is a native ...

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 ...

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!

The Dance Program uses graduate student assistantships as the sole form of financial aid for graduate students. Most students receive one assistantship per semester. For this reason, applicants should ...