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The Fritete African Drum & Dance Group

Josephine Adwoa Ansah-Brew, co-founder of the Performing Arts Center for African Cultures (PACAC), and The Fritete African ...
Arizona State Press

AFSA teaches South African dance styles through Afro-Grooves series

This week the African Students Association at Arizona State University and the Phoenix Chapter of The Links, Incorporated collaborated to create the "Afro-Grooves: Dance Series," which aims to connect ...
Columbia Daily Spectator

Meet Maguette Camara and Mangue Sylla: inspiring joy in Barnard’s African dance courses for nearly 20 years

On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, students dance in lapas, West African wrap-around skirts, to the beat of a live drummer on a Djembe drum. The Barnard dance department’s West African dance classes ...
The Conversation

The mother of African dance at 80. Why Senegal’s Germaine Acogny is so influential

Africa’s most celebrated dancer and choreographer, Germaine Acogny, turns 80 on 28 May. I have had the privilege of meeting the Senegalese artist, learning from her, and interviewing her as part of my ...
WMAZ

'Understanding that the movements are in you': West African dance studio marks 23 years in Macon

MACON, Ga. — Sounds like there's a lot going on at the Hayiya Dance Theatre. This dance studio and cultural arts center dances to the beat of its own drum, but to founder Pilar Lowden– this is what ...