Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has chosen Alicia Graf Mack to be its next artistic director, it announced on Thursday. A former member of the company, Mack, 45, currently the ...

including an African country at all was ahead of the curve, but it seems that a residual sense of overgeneralization was still at play. I can’t see them as having described Denmark’s Christmas ...

The Village Voice reviews "Edges of Ailey" the Whitney Museum show of the dancer and choreographer contextualized by visual arts.

Everyone knows how jazz, intertwined with the deeper sound of blues, emerged as the indomitable musical voice of black ...

A sing-along at Wolf Trap, the Grinch on a water scooter, ugly sweaters on the NSO and the Gay Men’s Chorus “Holiday Show” ...

An Oakland woman has brought the joy of dance and an appreciation for African American culture to performers and audiences for 52 years.

Cities across the globe offer plenty of cost-free experiences, from iconic architecture and museum exhibits to vibrant public ...

Thiossane West African Dance Institute will showcase West African culture in music, dance and storytelling performances.

The keyboard, everything, came to me,” she said, “including knowing that I wanted ‘Fanga’ to go with that.” It was the moment of inspiration for the title song of “Soaring High,” Kuumba’s live concert ...

While many African artists have been able to ride the wave of Afrobeats’ international popularity, some musicians are now ...

The Stockton University Performing Arts Center will be hosting two unusual shows in the coming week. First, at 7:30 p.m. on ...

These videos also mirror a complex historical pattern of Black musical innovation being embraced and co-opted by mainstream ...