You weren’t considered cool if you didn’t know the moves. These dance steps were deeply woven into pop culture, driven by Nigerian songs that took the country by storm. Many Nigerian artists ...

Jasmine Ceniceros of Troy tagged along with a friend to an African dance class when she was a teenager in New York City and figured she’d just watch. When she got there, the Senegalese teacher told ...

Step Afrika! is a world-renowned performance group that combines the traditional art of stepping from HBCU fraternities and sororities with modern dance elements and African dance elements to create a ...

Even if you’ve never heard of it, you won’t soon forget it once you’ve seen it. The Kimmel Cultural Campus is presenting this culturally-rich, history-based performance of the unforgettable dance ...

Put your feet in motion and "step" on over to Overture Center for an evening of movement and celebration dedicated to the African American tradition of "stepping." The international tour of Step ...

A new documentary pays tribute to the Nigerian dance scene and reveals how the country’s technique has made global influences. Uncredited: The Story of Afro Dance submerges into the lives of talented ...

LEWISBURG — Step Afrika!’s Black History Month tour brought a taste of African culture and dance rhythms to the Weis Center of Performing Arts on Friday night. The dance troupe, now an international ...

In evaluating the art of dancing in Africa and the black diaspora, the African-American ethno-musicologist, Esi-Kinni Olusanyin identifies the dancer’s body as incorporating the sensibilities and ...

In many ways, makossa may have been the first dance trend of the 2000s because it spilt over from the 1990s. What changed in 2000? It was the period when digital media, the Nigerian media structure ...

It's said that when South African miners weren't able to communicate with each other on the job, they danced. The miners wore rubber Wellington boots, or gumboots, and they would attach bells to the ...