Step Afrika! returns to the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center this week for a celebration of dance with roots in African traditions during Black History Month. The rhythmic stepping tradition uses ...
The Paramount Theater in Charlottesville will host the dance company Step Afrika! on stage on Tuesday, November 15, at 7 p.m. Founded in 1994 by C. Brian Williams, Step Afrika! is the first ...
UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) will present the Step Afrika! dance troupe performing traditional and contemporary movement from across the African diaspora, 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16 at Campbell Hall.
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Step Afrika! is the world's first professional dance company dedicated to the ...
Step Afrika! is a world-renowned performance group that combines the traditional art of stepping from HBCU fraternities and sororities with modern dance elements and African dance elements to create a ...
With stomping feet, clapping hands and spoken word, the Step Afrika! dance company is in Wilmington this week to tell the story of the Great Migration. As the theater doors of the Grand Opera House in ...
In 1739, 20 enslaved Africans in the American colony of South Carolina used their drums to initiate a revolt against their slaveholders. This drive for freedom, known as the Stono Rebellion, caused ...
Renowned African American arts organization and premier Dance Company Step Afrika! announces the commemoration of its milestone 30th anniversary season from August 2023 to July 2025. Established by ...
INSTITUTE, W.Va. — Step Afrika!, an internationally renowned group devoted to the traditional art of stepping, will perform at West Virginia State University (WVSU) in the P. Ahmed Williams Auditorium ...
When the brothers of the fictional Gamma Phi Gamma Fraternity joined together in rhythmic unison, clapping and stomping, in a scene from Spike Lee’s 1988 film School Daze, for many it served as an ...
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — A renowned Black dance organization is on its way to perform a unique show in the Quad Cities in mid-February. Step Afrika!, the first professional company dedicated to the art of ...
This week on Open Studio, Jared Bowen sits down with C. Brian Williams, the founder of Step Afrika!, which has made step dance a cultural and artistic art form. Step Afrika!'s latest production is ...