In Week 7 of the 93rd Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Touch of RED by Shamel Pitts | TRIBE will get a Jacob's Pillow premiere ...

The Recording Academy has added three new categories for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards including Best African Music Performance, Best Alternative Jazz Album and Best Pop Dance Recording.

Charleston, South Carolina, holds a rich yet often overlooked place in jazz history. The Charleston Jazz Initiative, ...

The African American Dance Company's student organization held its third annual Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration and Student Showcase. The event was held at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center from 6-7:15 p ...

Programs include culture as well as African dances, contemporary dance, modern dance, jazz dance, hip-hop. (A past IU group was the African American Dance Ensemble.) ...

This was soon picked up by the dance bands that played in ... and would eventually rival the American stars they looked up to. These included Kipper Moeketsi, saxophonist and “father of South African ...

To connect with the Lindy Hop, a form of swing dance born in Harlem in the 1920s, you can look beyond the Lindy Hop. At least that’s the premise of “The Jazz Continuum,” running at the ...

“In addition to African, we would also learn Caribbean dance. We were learning [African American] dance styles from the 1940s and 1920s,” Wilkins says.

Josephine Baker was one of the most iconic African American artists to make the journey to Paris. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Baker had already achieved fame as a dancer and singer in the United ...

Atwater, who was born in Washington, D.C., is the third artistic director in the 66-year history of the event, and the first African American to hold the title.

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...