Kieron Dwayne Sargeant became interested in dancing at age 16. Until then, he played the drums for his sisters while they danced for a local performing arts company, located in the southern area of ...

It’s a Monday evening — after work for most everyone in the brightly lit studio. But here the 13 women and three men are giving off white-hot energy. The men rhythmically and ferociously beat the ...

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 ...

Part of the Let’s Dance International Frontiers festival, Compagnie Kaméléonite’s piece about the climate crisis features two transfixing performers ...

Drumbeats and singing echoed around downtown Kitchener Monday as hundreds of high school students performed at city hall as part of the Gahu Project for racial justice. Close to 350 youth from seven ...

Collectively, it feels as if we’re experiencing the worst of the world, everywhere, all at once. But as always, Black people have found ways to take back their joy, and resist oppression through a ...

Join the Peter London Global Dance Group for their monthly Happy Hour Facebook Live, a Celebration of Caribbean African American Diasporan Community Partnership and Collaborations. The panelists are a ...

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’, ...

Katherine Dunham drew from African and Caribbean traditions to revolutionize dance and create opportunities for Black dancers. In 1950, choreographer Katherine Dunham found herself, not for the first ...

This weekend’s Caribbean and African Cultural Festival at the Garden Kitchen on South Fourth Avenue means to saturate the senses. Saturday’s free affair, running from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will include ...