EAST FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (WABC) -- As we wrap up celebrating Black History Month, a Brooklyn family teaching African dance and drumming in public schools lost its rhythm after not getting paid for ...
Maybelle Valenti, 9, of Sayville says she likes taking Irish dance classes because she likes the sparkly dresses she gets to wear. But her mother, Juliette, 41, a teacher, likes that her daughter is ...
OrigiNation students perform "I Am Peace" during a production of "Twist & Shout" on Oct. 14, 2023. (Photosbydrizzy/Courtesy OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center) “I want these kids to be in a space where ...
Francesca Negro is affiliated with the Centre for Theatre Studies and the Centre for Comparative Studies at Lisbon University. A group of young dancers from Uganda, Triplets Ghetto Kids, went viral ...
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 ...
Dec. 26 marks the first day of Kwanzaa, and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, in partnership with the Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation, is inviting families and the community to New ...
This article is one of the winning submissions from the New York Post Scholars Contest, presented by Command Education. Students form a circle in the middle of the room, as loud, pounding music plays ...
Selah Thompson (front) teaches how the skirt is used in Afro Cuban dance to mimic natural movements seen in nature at the Traditional Music Society dance class. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star ...
In a joyful expression of West African culture through dance, music and storytelling, the youth and professional dance companies from Thiossane West African Dance Institute will showcase the ...
The African Children’s Choir will perform a free concert at 7 p.m. Oct. 27 at Tri-Village Christian Church in Pataskala. The choir was founded in 1984 by minister Ray Barnett to support the education ...
What happened at the end of the African Children's Choir Sunday morning concert at First Church of God seemed inevitable. After an hour-long performance of classic hymns mixed with African percussion, ...