Africa is a big continent, and its dance encompasses a spectrum of movement. Many varieties can be seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s DanceAfrica festival.

Senakhu Donald formed this group in the summer of 2017. She noticed a lack of African dance groups in Colorado, and knew she was the right person to do something.

In celebrating the African arts, Barakissa Coulibaly will be performing a solo dance piece on the plight of the African woman.

The class provides an opportunity for all people to learn traditional African dance movements and dances, she said. "In Africa, they have healing dance rituals," Hilliard-Nunn said.

A group of performers stepped and swayed in the sand at an open-air studio on the Senegalese coast as Germaine Acogny, known as the mother of contemporary African dance, called out to them.

Germaine Acogny has risen as a female artist who has defied stereotypes to become one of the world’s most revered dance makers.

Pearl Primus (also known as Omowale) was a pioneer of modern dance, dance as protest, and African dance in the United States. She was also cited as an inspiration by acclaimed artists such as ...

They perform traditional South African dances and are thrilled to perform in front of an audience that, for many of them, is larger than the crowds back home.

If a man finds himself with no woman to dance with him, he does not hesitate to grab the body of one of his peers, get into a line and dance a traditional dance of the msoma, and he will then call ...