Bodies, voices and drums blended and exploded with frenzied energy as the Boka N’deye Pan African Drum and Dance Company brought “Festival Africaine!” to Hayden Hall Saturday night. Performing the ...
Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected with ...
Teenage girls spontaneously bust some Amapiano moves on the street alongside South African and Ghanian dancers Chad Jones and Dancegodlloyd in Mamelodi, South Africa. [File, Spotify] At a studio in ...
Matric dances in South Africa have long been a big night on the school calendar; the planning around the special occasion just keeps getting fancier and more stressful. Matric dances are evidently not ...
Sanya Osha receives funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. However, he writes this article in his personal capacity and his views do not represent the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation or the ...
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town Amapiano is a soulful mix of grooves, sonic textures and moods that can be by turns hectic, smooth, melodic or ...
Nov. 30 (UPI) --A group of 250 dancers broke a Guinness World Record for the largest amapiano dance in South Africa. The attempt, which was filmed for e.tv series Stumbo Record Breakers, was led by ...
Mozambique’s most influential contemporary choreographer uses bodies in motion to artfully — and clearly — trace the complex recent history of his country. By Tavares Cebola and John Eligon Reporting ...