JOHANNESBURG, July 29 (Reuters) - South African musical export Amapiano has crossed borders and cultural barriers, reaching as far as Japan. To top female artists Kamo Mphela and DBN Gogo, who ...

From balancing on makeshift barres in her poverty-stricken township, to practicing plies at the Atlanta Ballet, South African ballerina ... the lives of four ballet dancers from a poor ...

Dancers can react to these rhythmic digressions ... on a snippet of an old hit by Brenda Fassie, the beloved South African pop star who died in 2004, and who never really had a chance to break ...

By Heran Mamo In 2006, the International Astronomical Union stopped classifying Pluto as our solar system’s ninth planet and demoted its status to “dwarf planet.” But 17 years later, Nigerian singer ...

"If you've never done Afro dance before, have no fear! We're going to…[be] covering some fundamentals and techniques for you guys, so you feel like a star today," she says. Like all forms of ...

She was also the founding director IU's African-American Dance Company ... Jackson is a Public Safety Reporter for the Indianapolis Star. You can email her at [email protected] and ...

And so it felt right," said Graf Mack, who at 17 became a breakout star with the Dance Theatre ... students to take hip-hop and West African dance. The young apprentices have more freedom to ...

as world-class dancers, trainees, veterans and students took the stage at the O’Shaughnessy. With styles that incorporated ballet, modern traditions and West African movement vocabulary ...

Flashing lights and rhythmic dance from the Afro-diasporic vernacular entertained audiences Wednesday night when Chapel Hill’s Michelle Dorrance brought her performance "The Center Will Not Hold ...

African dance stands as a powerful expression of the rich culture that is deeply rooted in the African diaspora. In Baltimore, the Keur Khaleyi African Dance Company and Cultural Institute is ...

She set out to become a physical training teacher. Encountering western dance for the first time, and being the only black (and African) student in her class, she was made to feel that she was not ...

This year's showcase theme was Embodying the Elements, focusing on the elements of "earth, fire, water and air through African diaspora dance and drum," according to Rootead's Youth Enrichment ...