National Troupe of Nigeria has started a programme tagged reimagining National Troupe of Nigeria through innovation. The idea is to establish culture in virtual reality which will also produce ...

Emmanuel Adejumo who goes by the stage name Boi Sala is the son of one of Nigeria’s most popular and celebrated comedians Baba Sala. Emmanuel is also an artiste like his father. As a multi-talented ...

Even if you’ve never heard of it, you won’t soon forget it once you’ve seen it. The Kimmel Cultural Campus is presenting this culturally-rich, history-based performance of the unforgettable dance ...

In many ways, makossa may have been the first dance trend of the 2000s because it spilt over from the 1990s. What changed in 2000? It was the period when digital media, the Nigerian media structure ...

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 ...

Guggenheim Award-winning dance scholar and choreographer Dr. Kariamu Welsh, the creator of the African dance technique Umfundalai, will join Drexel University for a discussion and demonstration on ...

Ann-Marie Shapiro is sweating and catching her breath as she sits to put on her shoes in the great room at the Channing-Murray Foundation. She looks physically spent but elated. The 41-year-old ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Skidmore College is well-known for its hands-on approaches to education. Recently, the music department presented an example of this with a show by Dr. Ruth Opara’s class on ...

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 ...

Since it was uploaded to Instagram in June, the video of Nigerian ballet dancer Anthony Mmesoma Madu dancing in the rain has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times over. In a moment when our ...