Stafford Berry Jr., director of Indiana University's African American Dance Company, was recently honored in the first group of artisans and folk-artisans given the Midwest Culture Bearers Award. We ...

The African American Dance Company's student organization held its third annual Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration and Student Showcase. The event was held at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center from 6-7:15 p ...

It wasn't on purpose that Iris Rosa Santiago opened up a studio offering African diaspora dance genres in the historic Kennedy-King Neighborhood, but it's befitting of her journey. The Iris Rose Dance ...

More than 300 paintings, photographs, sculpture, and archival objects—some dating to the early 1600s—are used to trace African American dance from its roots in west and central Africa through the 20th ...

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 ...

There are many peaceful ways to get your message across in protest: Marches, sit-ins, taking a knee. Tamara Williams, an assistant professor of dance at UNC Charlotte, uses dance. She co-founded ...

Spearheaded by dance pioneer Najwa I on Chicago’s west side in 1977 and officially incorporated in 1979, NAJWA Dance Corps has carved out a path for Black creatives and has inspired audiences with its ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT) celebrates African American dance masters in ...

African American dance: a complex history / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Christian conversion and the challenge of dance / P. Sterling Stuckey -- Dance and identity politics in American Negro vaudeville: The ...

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 ...