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 École des Sables has established itself as Africa’s premier dance-training hub. Yet money concerns, and a new port nearby ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Rae Kala is a traveler — Central America, Mexico, Santa Cruz in California, West Africa — but Port Townsend pulls her back, again and again. In the past, she helped assemble an African ...

BRATTLEBORO — African Dance Vermont welcomes back a well-loved and respected dance teacher, Pape Ba, originally from Senegal. Because Pape will be teaching an African dance course at Marlboro College ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — In the heat of the evening sun, a few dozen people gathered Wednesday night at 555 Monroe Avenue NW to enjoy a free fitness class and a taste of culture at the same time.

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 ...

Black Dance-USA: A Celebration of Movement is more than a dance festival. It’s music. It’s song. It’s history and heritage. It’s a five-day, toe-tappin’, high-kickin’, jazz-jammin’, elbow-rubbin’, ...

Can't stand another minute mindlessly jogging on the treadmill? Dog-tired of down dog? Whatever the reason, it's time for a new way to break a sweat -- without counting down every second until it's ...