Twenty-five dance companies from across Africa descended on a Senegalese fishing village over the weekend for the African ...

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 ...

In a career spanning over 50 years of dance, choreographer Chuck Davis”Baba Chuck” to the dance communityhas been instrumental in bringing African dance to a number of unlikely venues for the first ...

On an August evening on the second floor of the Fitness Works gymnasium in Detroit’s New Center, a dance class is in full swing as six women step up a storm. They make sweeping movements with their ...

Gumboot, a form of African dance, gives new meaning to the term “underground movement.” The expressive, rhythmic articulations performed by dancers wearing rubber boots evolved out of the codified ...

SNOW CAMP, N.C. (WGHP) — There are drums, singing and lots of dance in African storytelling. The students at Sylvan Elementary School are learning all about it as part of the school’s Artists in ...

Award-winning Senegalese filmmaker Mamadou Dia (“Nafi’s Father”) is in post-production on “Legacy,” a documentary that follows students at a legendary West African dance school. The director will be ...

Walker joins us, along with his wife Karida Walker, who is a dancer in the troupe; and high school senior Nylah Jae Holt, who has been dancing with Sebé Kan since she was 8 years old. Note: The ...

The KanKouran, West African Dance Companyhas been around for four decades, three generations, and is drawn together by the drums, dance, and culture. Eileen and Kidd were joined by Nzinga Tull, senior ...