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“Shade Thaxter in Misogny” choreographed by Dwright Wright.

Jamaica

DANCE JAMAICA

By Nelson A. King

Members of Alma Moyo band, featuring Oxil Febles dancing (front). On drums Manuela Arciniegas, Nelson Cabassa, Ariel LaSalle. Behind Febles: Alex LaSalle and Ines Mangual.

Africa

Summer Event Series highlights Congolese influence in Caribbean music and dance

By Milette Millington

AAADT's Vernard Gilmore students from The Ailey School Junior Division in Hope Boykin's Chasing the Spirit 2023 Ailey Spirit Gala.

Dance

ART AND SOUL OF DANCE

By Nelson A. King

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Alvin Ailey's “Revelations.”

AILEY SPIRIT GALA

By Nelson A. King

Dancer James Davis.

Dance

Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet to commemorate Juneteenth at BAM

By Nelson A. King

Ailey II in Alvin Ailey's Revelations.

Africa

Ghana spotlights DanceAfrica 2023 at BAM

By Vinette K. Pryce

Ailey Extension Dance in Times Square - Mambo with Katherine Jimenez.

Dance

Ailey Extension hosts free dance in Times Square workshop series

By Nelson A. King

Hip-Hop Class at the Ailey Extension

Ailey Extension celebrates Women’s History Month with lady-led workshops

By Nelson A. King

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Alvin Ailey’s Survivors

Dance

Ailey’s holiday season engagement sizzles

By Nelson A. King

Rosemary James.

Dance

International Association of Blacks in Dance to honor outstanding five

By Nelson A. King

Laurel Lawson, a white dancer with short cropped teal hair, is balancing with arms spread wide, wheels spinning, and supported by Alice Sheppard. Alice, a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin and curly hair, is lifting from the ground below. They are making eye contact and smiling. A burst of white light appears in a dark blue sky.

Dance

Dance company works to ensure dance is accessible to all

By Milette Millington

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Grenada

Grenadian-American dance expert Shola K. Roberts joins dance faculty at Arizona State University

By Nelson A. King

DanceAfrica Bazaar – the early years.

Africa

May merriment returns multi-cultural DanceAfrica to BAM

By Vinette K. Pryce

Zazel-Chavah O’Garra. Biviana Sanchez

Dance

Afro-Caribbean artist with disability heads dance company

By Nelson A. King

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BALLET’S BACK

By Nelson A. King

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Dance

HAPPY DIWALI

By Tangerine Clarke

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