With the consensus appearing to be that Childish Gambino's new "This Is America" video is a viral hit, many people have been dissecting its layers. One much-talked about aspect of the visual were the ...
Dance as viewed through our modern lens is centered on entertainment. You can hardly look at a music video, sports game or viral clip that doesn’t involve the latest dance move of the moment. Thanks, ...
NARBERTH, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Melinda Pendleton is the director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet, which her parents founded roughly 50 years ago. There, she knows the importance of not only ...
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 ...
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 ...
Children in the Balafon West African Dance Ensemble perform in 2016. The organization, founded by Kadiatou Conte-Forte, was West African dance is bringing rhythm to Pittsburgh’s East End. Kadiatou ...
Growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in the 1950s, Kariamu Welsh was enchanted by the older girls and their double Dutch jump rope moves. When she was old enough to join in, she ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - You can have fun and learn about different cultures today at the 10th annual Dance Africa: Pittsburgh event. It's currently underway at the Homewood-Brushton YMCA, as well as ...
My almost two-year-old’s current musical obsessions are 1) singing and doing the hand motions for “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and 2) dancing to the song “She’s a Lady” by Tom Jones. Due to these ...