The first professional company dedicated to the tradition of stepping, Step Afrika! blends percussive dance styles, traditional African dances, and contemporary dance and art forms into a powerful ...

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 ...

Ronald K. Brown, the founder and choreographer of the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based dance company Evidence, is bringing his latest work, “Two-Year-Old Gentlemen,” to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from ...

It took IShowSpeed little to no time to build a solid fanbase in South Africa. In yet another display of the power of his ...

A Houston-based dance troupe wants to bring traditional African dance and drumming traditions to the wider Black diaspora. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd discusses the meaning of their Juneteenth ...

“Bomba is not only a genre, it's kind of a lifestyle," one dancer said. As the nation commemorates Black History Month, Afro-Puerto Ricans are using their traditional dance and music -- Bomba -- to ...

For one night only, a show at Cincinnati’s Aronoff Center will mix traditional African dance styles and rhythm with contemporary art forms.Step Afrika takes the state at the Aronoff Center on Tuesday, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A class in African dance is offered to students wanting to learn this invigorating dance form.