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 ...

Audiovisual materials created for an exhibition on African American Dance, held at the Arts and Industries Building December 14, 2000 - June 1, 2001. More than 300 paintings, photographs, sculpture, ...

Ailey II is a national treasure, one of just a handful of touring dance companies with the versatility, efficiency, malleability and bedrock creativity to work on a wide variety of stages and ...

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 ...

The Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center hosted a Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration on Tuesday. The African American Dance Company performed to mark the event, which is the center’s fourth time hosting the ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: A previous version of the story mentioned an Oct. 17 performance by Ailey II at the Warner Theatre in Torrington. That performance has been canceled. Ailey II is a national treasure, ...

In a career spanning over 50 years of dance, choreographer Chuck Davis”Baba Chuck” to the dance communityhas been instrumental in bringing African dance to a number of unlikely venues for the first ...

AIKEN — A new exhibit explores the history of dance and its connection to Black culture. An opening reception for the Divine Dance exhibit was held April 29 at the Center of African American History, ...

Raymond Wise, the executive director of the institute and director of the choral ensemble, said “Potpourri” was created about 30 years after the three ensembles formed. It serves as a way for the ...

RICHMOND, Va., March 15 (Reuters) - An unlikely fusion of Irish dance and hip-hop music is flying high on the internet as a young dreadlocked African-American dancer blends her passions in viral ...