For four decades, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based choreographer Ronald K. Brown has built a body of work rooted in African diasporic traditions and resonating with spiritual transcendence and rich storytelling.

This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities ...

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 ...

Dance, in African culture, transcends the physical response of the body to music – it is more than mere motion, as in the movement of limbs in concert with sound. It is more than the feet answering ...

On an August evening on the second floor of the Fitness Works gymnasium in Detroit’s New Center, a dance class is in full swing as six women step up a storm. They make sweeping movements with their ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Department of Dance at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance presents Touch a Breath — The Body ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- At King Elementary School in southwest Fresno, students have been learning about African American culture through dance. This year, 18 students at Martin Luther King ...

We hear of the value of asking our elders about our culture before it's too late, before they die along with their troves of historically personal facts. A dozen reviewers chose nine finalists from ...

Dance-based movements are an integral part of many African cultures. These exercises involve rhythmic body movements that ...

In a world that often tries to label African women, the film Black Women and Sex lets them write their own stories. This ...

Every film production has its own stories of research and discovery. For Stephen Foster producers Beth Hager and Randy MacLowry, creating the dances Stephen Foster would have seen was a major ...