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 ...
THE SECRET is out. Stepping, the African American practice of rhythmic percussive dance and rhyming chants, has made its way from college campus quads to professional stages throughout the world, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
It's said that when South African miners weren't able to communicate with each other on the job, they danced. The miners wore rubber Wellington boots, or gumboots, and they would attach bells to the ...
LEWISBURG — Step Afrika!’s Black History Month tour brought a taste of African culture and dance rhythms to the Weis Center of Performing Arts on Friday night. The dance troupe, now an international ...
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, ...
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 ...
"Gimme de kneebone bent" : music and dance in Africa -- "Keep to the rhythm and you'll keep to life" : the style of African American vernacular dance -- Overture to vocal choreography : vernacular ...