Song and dance bring South Africa, contemporary fusion to Hampton Roads

The Virginia Arts Festival’s two recent offerings, the Soweto Gospel Choir, back in Norfolk for a third time, and the American dance company Step Afrika (born of a partnership with Soweto Dance ...
The New York Times

Using Dance to Provoke, Delight and Tell South Africa’s Stories

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 ...
Berkshire Eagle

At Mass MoCA, South African dancers will represent the elements in an 8-hour performance

NORTH ADAMS — How does a body dance oxygen? How does a body dance trees breathing out and people breathing in — the invisible balance that keeps us alive? South African choreographers/dancers Thulani ...
AllAfrica on MSN

Young Dancer Earns Nomination

A rising star from Botswana's Juvenile Championship programme and a member of the local ballroom dance troupe Moonlight Dance Studio, Abigail Modise has made history as the first young Motswana to be ...
Reuters

South African troupe takes township dance 'pantsula' to global stage

JOHANNESBURG, July 7 (Reuters) - Thato Qofela first performed 'pantsula', a symbol of Black South African culture and resistance to the apartheid regime, in his childhood backyard. Now, he is helping ...
UPI

250 dancers break Guinness World Record in South Africa

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 ...
The Conversation

Amapiano Awards: South Africa’s dance music scene spreads its joy across the world

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 ...