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DanceAfrica is a heritage and community celebration equable on the manifold dance forms of the African Diaspora held annually in New York City, Washington, DC, and Chicago. Included are indoor and outdoor performance including live music, a film series, master classes , education programs, and an outdoor bazaar.
Pantsula is a tradition and also a highly energetic dance form that originated in the black townships of South Africa during the apartheid era. It developed into a form of social commentary for black South Africans and has undergone several transformations with the country's changing political tides.
Mark Morris Dance Group: modern Brooklyn, New York: United States: Founder Mark Morris: 1980–present Munt–Brooks Dance Studios: modern New York City United States Founders Alfred Brooks, Maxine Munt: 1952–1966; originally at 1125 6th Ave. moved to Denver in 1966 Merce Cunningham Dance Company: modern New York City: United States
Step Afrika! was founded in 1994 in South Africa through a collaboration between dancers from the United States and dancers from the Soweto Dance Theatre of Johannesburg, South Africa. [4] [5] [6] The company moved to the United States in 1996, and relocated to its current headquarters, in the Atlas Performing Arts Center, on H Street NE, in 2006.
This was in response to political changes that were taking place in South Africa towards democracy. FEDANSA is the official controlling structure and sole custodian of DanceSport and related dance styles in South Africa, issuing Provincial and Protea colours in South Africa. In 2014 a new logotype was introduced, with the new name.
Mamela Nyamza is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, curator, director and activist in South Africa.She is trained in a variety of styles of dance including ballet, modern dance, African dance, the Horton technique, Spanish dance, jazz, movement and mime, flying low technique, release technique, gumboot dance and Butoh.
Dance music artists and groups who are from South Africa. ... South African electronic dance music DJs (29 P) S. South African drum and bass musicians (3 P)
Davis founded the Chuck Davis Dance Company in New York City in 1968, DanceAfrica in 1977, and the African American Dance Ensemble in Durham, North Carolina in 1983. [5] [6] [7] While living in New York, he was an instructor at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 1974, he joined the faculty of the American Dance Festival. [8]