FORT GREENE, Brooklyn (PIX11) — The Brooklyn Academy of Music celebrated its 47th annual DanceAfrica Festival Saturday, which kicked off this Memorial Day weekend. DanceAfrica is the nation’s largest ...

Now in its 47th year, DanceAfrica, founded in 1977 by the late Baba Chuck Davis, is BAM's longest-running performance series. Brooklyn Academy of Music’s iconic DanceAfrica festival offered a vibrant ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A couple with deep ties to the popular Brooklyn festival and its founder and longtime artistic director, Chuck Davis, recall when their wedding was ...

“They did a thing for the ancestors,” Abdel R. Salaam told Observer, “and then the rains came.” He was talking about his recent trip to visit the Baka people in the Dja Faunal Reserve, located in ...

As Fleet Week descends on the city this Memorial Day weekend, some noteworthy events have a nautical feel; such as a Statue of Liberty cruise and the world premiere of a multimedia dance event aboard ...

DanceAfrica Festival 2024, the nation’s largest festival of African dance, is what some consider Brooklyn’s unofficial start to summer. By James Barron Good morning. Today, and on Fridays through the ...

Dr. Charles “Baba Chuck” Davis founded DanceAfrica almost four decades ago as a unique celebration of Africa and its diaspora. For the next two weekends, DanceAfrica will partner for the third time ...

BAM has announced a lineup change for DanceAfrica 2024: The Origin of Communities / A Calabash of Cultures Opera House performances, May 24—27. Cie La Calebasse will no longer perform due to ...

NBC 5, Telemundo 39, and Dallas Black Dance Theatre invite to you to the 19th Annual DanceAfrica performances October 11 and 12 at Moody Performance Hall in Dallas. Get ready to intrigue your mind and ...

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Brooklyn Academy of Music’s (BAM) four-day DanceAfrica festival returns this May following the theme of “Mozambique: Movement! Magic! Manifestation!” The Memorial Day tradition ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FORT GREENE, Brooklyn (PIX11) — The Brooklyn ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) – An annual tradition ...