It’s a Monday evening — after work for most everyone in the brightly lit studio. But here the 13 women and three men are giving off white-hot energy. The men rhythmically and ferociously beat the ...

African American dance: a complex history / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Christian conversion and the challenge of dance / P. Sterling Stuckey -- Dance and identity politics in American Negro vaudeville: The ...

Music is such an important part in many cultures. The drums in particular play a role in African and Caribbean traditions. Jordan Taylor Hill is an artist, cultural educator and founder of Rhythms of ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Members of the Spirit of Angela West African Dance and Drum group perform for a crowd at the end of a Kwanzaa celebration on ...

Djeneba Sako moved to the U.S. from Mali, West Africa, more than 20 years ago to share her passion for African dance. DENVER — If you follow the sound of drums from the unassuming corner of Bayaud ...

Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary and the start of a new School of the Arts season, ...

For three decades, Step Afrika!, the world’s first professional company dedicated to the art of stepping, has danced to the beat of a different drum. Yet, the idiom takes on greater meaning when it ...

If you ever came across African diasporic music in North Carolina with live drums — like, djembes, dununs, shékeres — then there's a good chance master drummer Baba Bradley Simmons was involved.

Audiovisual materials created for an exhibition on African American Dance, held at the Arts and Industries Building December 14, 2000 - June 1, 2001. More than 300 paintings, photographs, sculpture, ...

Stafford Berry Jr., director of Indiana University's African American Dance Company, was recently honored in the first group of artisans and folk-artisans given the Midwest Culture Bearers Award. We ...