Penny and the KidVision Pre-K Kids learn about West African dance and music. Penny and the KidVision Pre-K Kids learn about West African dance and music. They listen to a griot (storyteller), make and ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) – Students at a local elementary school celebrated Black History Month through dance on Friday. The Epiphany Dance Collective out of Indianapolis performed at Benjamin ...

Maybelle Valenti, 9, of Sayville says she likes taking Irish dance classes because she likes the sparkly dresses she gets to wear. But her mother, Juliette, 41, a teacher, likes that her daughter is ...

During his senior year at Atlanta’s Emory University as an African studies student, Kokayi Postell decided to study abroad in Ghana. It wasn’t long before he fell in love with the country’s rich ...

Mikeall “Myienie” Caesar founded N’Fungola Sibo to teach West African dance, a mission encouraged by her longtime mentor, Papa Abdoulaye Camara. Originally from Senegal, Camara had moved to New ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Caro Diallo of Senegal aims to bring the sky down to earth Saturday night at The Church on Main Street. Diallo, director and lead dancer of the Black Soofa dance company of West Africa, ...