Black Dance-USA: A Celebration of Movement is more than a dance festival. It’s music. It’s song. It’s history and heritage. It’s a five-day, toe-tappin’, high-kickin’, jazz-jammin’, elbow-rubbin’, ...

When you’re hot you’re hot. And when you’re not–well, if you’re the West Indian Folk Dance Company, you’re still pretty entertaining. A recent rehearsal of the first half of the troupe’s upcoming ...

Collectively, it feels as if we’re experiencing the worst of the world, everywhere, all at once. But as always, Black people have found ways to take back their joy, and resist oppression through a ...

Katherine Dunham drew from African and Caribbean traditions to revolutionize dance and create opportunities for Black dancers. In 1950, choreographer Katherine Dunham found herself, not for the first ...

Kieron Dwayne Sargeant became interested in dancing at age 16. Until then, he played the drums for his sisters while they danced for a local performing arts company, located in the southern area of ...

Through regional collaboration and storytelling, Unique Arts is preserving tradition while creating new opportunities for ...

It’s a Monday evening — after work for most everyone in the brightly lit studio. But here the 13 women and three men are giving off white-hot energy. The men rhythmically and ferociously beat the ...

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 ...

Dancers from the Caribbean Dance Company took the stage once again this month for the first time in two years, as they marked their 40th student showcase, “2021 Students of Caribbean Dance School,” at ...