The April event in Ivory Coast broke records with the presence of 320 festival programmers from 72 countries, showcasing the ...

The African Dance Biennial, Africa's largest contemporary dance showcase, took place in Toubab Dialao, Senegal. The event ...

Divine Dance is a new exhibit at The Center for African-American History, Art and Culture that tell dance in the Black ...

In a joyful expression of West African culture through dance, music and storytelling, the youth and professional dance companies from Thiossane West African Dance Institute will showcase the ...

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 ...

The École des Sables has established itself as Africa’s premier dance-training hub. Yet money concerns, and a new port nearby, make its future precarious.

Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected with ...

Rock paintings are found throughout Zimbabwe. They were made during the last 10,000 years by hunter gatherer groups and later by farming communities.These came to the attention of the ERC ...

On a chilly October night, the dimly lit lounge of Rock Steady — a popular Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Midtown — is notably empty. Staffers are preparing for what’s supposed to be a busy night ahead.

Just as great pressure creates diamonds out of coal — the world’s largest diamonds come, after all, from South Africa — man’s injustice to his fellow man can paradoxically create great art: an art of ...