The end-of-the-year production will feature “The Circle of Life,” an original adaptation of “The Lion King.” Public ...

Shakira dances with kids of the Isu'lihle Senior Primary School in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday June 9, 2010.

Brew, co-founder of the Performing Arts Center for African Cultures (PACAC), and The Fritete African Drum & Dance Group ...

Children from refugee and immigrant families took center stage at the Mint Museum in Charlotte on Wednesday night, performing ...

From growing up in poverty in the streets of Kampala, the group will jet to the U.S. to perform at the World Cup final in New ...

What began as two days of high-level policy discussions and strategic commitments at the Africa Forward Summit ended in spectacular style at the Moi International Sports Centre Kasarani where music, ...

It’s a Wednesday night in Charlotte, and you can hear the rhythmic tapping of Mexican folklórico boots from the studio next door. That’s when 12-year-old J.P. Contreras takes a moment to share what ...

He decided to go back to Guinea to give back to his community by opening a school to teach others the skills he had acquired. After a couple years, his students were performing at the level of ...

Increasing U.S. travel restrictions for citizens from several African nations could affect a dance performance scheduled next month at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe. Les Ballets ...

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 ...

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 ...