Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick At the Joyce Theater, “American Street Dancer” offers a history lesson in the form of a family’s house party. By Brian Seibert American ...

Utter silence accompanies the faceless stranger in the corner of the screen. The room is empty, save for a glowing lantern beside him, its flame throwing shadows on the wall. Dark red and violet light ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Mthuthuzeli November was determined to get out of his impoverished home town. Now he has his work alongside George Balanchine at the Paris Opera Ballet. Mthuthuzeli November, ...

Just as great pressure creates diamonds out of coal — the world’s largest diamonds come, after all, from South Africa — man’s injustice to his fellow man can paradoxically create great art: an art of ...

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 ...

Up from under: The Africanist presence -- First premises of an Africanist aesthetic -- Don't take away my Picasso: Cultural borrowing and the Afro-Euro-American triangle -- Barefoot and hot, sneakered ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

Award-winning Senegalese filmmaker Mamadou Dia (“Nafi’s Father”) is in post-production on “Legacy,” a documentary that follows students at a legendary West African dance school. The director will be ...

Interview with Alphonse Tiérou, 43, choreographer and independent researcher from Côte d'Ivoire. He discusses the power of dance in Africa. Biodata included. In an inset written by him (page 45), he ...

Houston dancer, educator, and author Stacey Allen joins Houston Matters to discuss her new children’s book, “D is for Dance,” a joyful, illustrated celebration of movement inspired by the African ...