Even if you’ve never heard of it, you won’t soon forget it once you’ve seen it. The Kimmel Cultural Campus is presenting this culturally-rich, history-based performance of the unforgettable dance ...

Step Afrika! is a world-renowned performance group that combines the traditional art of stepping from HBCU fraternities and sororities with modern dance elements and African dance elements to create a ...

Jasmine Ceniceros of Troy tagged along with a friend to an African dance class when she was a teenager in New York City and figured she’d just watch. When she got there, the Senegalese teacher told ...

Looking for something to do during the next week? Here are just a few happenings in Hampton Roads. Fever presents Candlelight concert: “The Best of Hans Zimmer.” 6:30 p.m. Friday at Granby Theater, ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. On Friday, Jan. 24, Step Afrika! brought the craft of step dancing to Athens at the ...

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 ...

It’s a dance style that’s becoming increasingly popular, but the origin of stepping is a bit murky. An Essence Magazine article in 2020 said it may have started in Africa with what is known as gumboot ...

Step Afrika! is one of the largest Black dance companies in the U.S and with its colorful, high energy fusion of many cultures, it is one of a kind. The company is the brainchild of C. Brian Williams, ...

Africa’s most celebrated dancer and choreographer, Germaine Acogny, turns 80 on 28 May. I have had the privilege of meeting the Senegalese artist, learning from her, and interviewing her as part of my ...

Performances in N.Y.C. A company of dancers from across Africa perform Bausch’s canonical work around the world. “I’ve always felt that this was an African dance,” said Germaine Acogny. Dancers, drawn ...

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 ...