DanceAfrica, BAM's longest-running program and the nation's largest festival of African dance and culture, returns for its 48th year with a full weekend of performances, films, dance classes, and ...

The rhythmic patterns created by drumming encourage movement that engages core muscles, including those supporting the back.

Inside the studios of the Balafon West African Dance Ensemble, young dancers sashay about the floor as the rhythmic beats of the djembe pulse through the air—weaving a tapestry of sound that animates ...

African dances are a vibrant expression of culture and history, but they also serve as an effective way to improve flexibility and strength ...

This year's judges at the River-Cade Dance Contest may see something they may not have seen in years past. African dance elements. Three young women, Anissa, Sarah and Amina Abdel-Jelil of Gabon, ...

“They did a thing for the ancestors,” Abdel R. Salaam told Observer, “and then the rains came.” He was talking about his recent trip to visit the Baka people in the Dja Faunal Reserve, located in ...

MACON, Ga. — Sounds like there's a lot going on at the Hayiya Dance Theatre. This dance studio and cultural arts center dances to the beat of its own drum, but to founder Pilar Lowden– this is what ...

In evaluating the art of dancing in Africa and the black diaspora, the African-American ethno-musicologist, Esi-Kinni Olusanyin identifies the dancer’s body as incorporating the sensibilities and ...

Connected to wireless earphones, Yoofi Greene from Ghana begins his dance steps down a busy sidewalk in Guangzhou, China. People, bicycles and cars zoom past. Pedestrians watch with a mix of amusement ...

It’s a Wednesday night in Charlotte, and you can hear the rhythmic tapping of Mexican folklórico boots from the studio next door. That’s when 12-year-old J.P. Contreras takes a moment to share what ...