Colors are important in African dance costumes, with each color having a specific meaning. For example, red is usually a ...

For the Makare African Dance Family, dancing is a way of giving thanks. ... and grass skirts, which whirl with each step as the dancers clap and dance to the beat of the drums and bead-covered jars.

Olayami Dabls, founder of Detroit’s MBAD African Bead Museum, is the Kresge Eminent Artist for 2022. The award, presented by the Kresge Foundation, includes $50,000 in recognition of lifetime ...

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

Saturday's dance classes lead up to the concert at 8:30 p.m. that night (Nov 3) at Chamberlain High School, 9401 N Blvd, which highlights guest artists from Africa, local African Dance companies ...

A group of performers stepped and swayed in the sand at an open-air studio on the Senegalese coast as Germaine Acogny, known as the mother of contemporary African dance, called out to them."Walk! Take ...

Some of the estimated 30,000 young women participating in the annual Umhlanga ceremony, or Reed Dance, sing as they wait to present their reeds to King Mswati III in 2012.

The African bead museum was founded by Dabls in 1996 and was originally located inside the David A. Whitney Building in downtown Detroit. Two years later, he decided it was time for a change and ...

Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum isn’t going anywhere. Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the unique Detroit institution founded by artist and collector Olayami Dabls in 1998 would be ...

Olayami Dabls, founder of Detroit’s MBAD African Bead Museum, is the Kresge Eminent Artist for 2022. The award, presented by the Kresge Foundation, includes $50,000 in recognition of lifetime ...

Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum isn’t going anywhere. Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the unique Detroit institution founded by artist and collector Olayami Dabls in 1998 would be ...