The scent of burning copal filled the air as Aztec dancers, bedecked in feathered headdresses and wearing shell-embellished ankle cuffs, blessed an intersection bordering Little Village and North ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A solo by the choreographer Bintou Dembélé, the first showing of her work in the United States, explored the crossover between hip-hop and diasporic ...

OUIDAH, Benin, Jan 11 (Reuters) - On Benin's national voodoo holiday, performers dressed as guardians of the night swirled in costumes resembling technicolour haystacks, delighting worshippers and ...

When enslaved people were shipped to Cuba from Africa, they brought their traditions with them. As a result, Cuban cuisine, music and dance are linked to the Motherland. Cubans are warm and love a ...

When most people think of African dance they imagine celebratory, picture-postcard ritualized movements—swooping arms, undulant shoulders, thundering foot-stamps. But there's a revolutionary cadre of ...

Gule Wamkulu dance secretive society members in gory masks and colorful outfits walk on the streets in Zimbabwe.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi) Deep into the night, the sound of drums reverberated ...

Introduction: ritual journeys, dancing histories, enacting bodies, and spirits / Dannabang Kuwabong -- Re-visionary history as myth performance: a postcolonial re-reading of Maud Cuney-Hare's Antar of ...

Bandleader and artistic director Obo Addy wants audiences to come away with a true picture of his homeland when they leave "The Spirit of Kwanzaa," the program that his music-and-dance group, Okropong ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Carroll High School again is hosting a series of events celebrating African-American culture, and on Wednesday's schedule: line dancing! From 'Creole Trail Ride' dances to ...