Sloan drew inspiration from a dance popularized in the mid-19th century by William Henry Lane, an African American performer known as "Master Juba." Lane famously competed against Irish American ...

She was also the founding director IU's African-American Dance Company. After the pandemic, Santiago, who never had a studio and was freshly retired, said she was "bored." That's how the studio ...

African American fiddlers were popular fixtures in dance halls, where they spun out the jigs and reels that kept white patrons on the move. Black musicians, including banjo players, guitarists ...

Like many of the other dances, the syncopated rhythms are of African ... American countries, including finger snapping and castanets playing - commonly associated with the Spanish flamenco dance ...

Here, the secular and sacred meet in a tour-de-force connecting African and American dance. Finding Free (2024, Chicago Premiere) by former Company member Hope Boykin who returns to explore ...

Set to African American gospel songs and spirituals ... Applause for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater persisted into the encore and long after the curtains closed. Runtime: 2 hours ...