Former track star Ross, who retired in 1997 after decades as a physical education teacher and guidance counselor in Cleveland Heights and Cleveland city schools, grew up with music and dance. His ...

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Egypt's city of Ismailia hosts the 25th edition of the Ismaïlia International Festival for Folk Arts, with performances across multiple venues throughout the governorate. The festival runs from 24 to ...

June 5th at The Orange Peel, doors at 6 p.m./show at 7 p.m. $12 in advance/$15 day of Featuring: Zansa, Barakissa Coulibaly, Lisa Zahiya, Mande Foly, African Drum & Dance Troupes, West African Dinner, ...

Step Afrika!, the renowned, internationally touring company, is bringing its stomping, clapping, highly energetic, intricately choreographed performance Jan. 28 to Dominican University in River Forest ...

Bodies, voices and drums blended and exploded with frenzied energy as the Boka N’deye Pan African Drum and Dance Company brought “Festival Africaine!” to Hayden Hall Saturday night. Performing the ...

Hinsdale South’s 2019 Ethnic Fair was all about dancing, food and connections. Edmund Arroyo, a social worker at the high school who emceed the fair, told the friends and relatives seated in the ...

An exploration of connection and community, Rooted in Motion will showcase original works that pull from a variety of ...

Ballet Nepantla erases boundaries between dance forms and explores what it means to be from the borderlands — both as a geographical place and a state of mind. Ballet Nepantla erases boundaries ...

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