Black Brooklyn Renaissance: African Dance/Brooklyn Style

African Dance/ Brooklyn Style
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
February 28, 2010, 2 - 5pm

African Dance/ Brooklyn Style, a celebratory dance extravaganza designed to shed light on the evolution of Brooklyns Black culture through the performances of a range of dance companies, dance artists and dance styles—folk, modern, postmodern—each incorporating African dance as a root in rhythm, step or gesture.

African dance has been a source of inspiration in Brooklyn since the 1960s. It is the pre-eminent artform of the African diaspora in Brooklyn, along with drumming styles and rhythms.

Performers include Baraka de Soleil, Camille A. Brown and Afro-Mosaic Soul, traditional Panamanian dance troupe Conjunto Nuevo Milenio, Mickey Davis & Dancers, Afro- Brooklyn Jumbies (Afro-Caribbean moko jumbie /stiltwalking) and Asase Yaa (West African Traditional), Restoration Dance Theatre Company.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• African Dance
• Brooklyn
• Brooklyn College
• Baraka de Soleil
• Camille A. Brown
• Afro-Mosaic Soul
• Conjunto Nuevo Milenio
• Brooklyn Jumbies
• Asase Yaa
• Mickey Davis
• Dance
• Panamanian
• Afro-Panamanian
• West African
• House Dance
• Ivory Coast
• Haitian
• Guinean
• Carnival
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Swing Dance
• Modern Dance
• Black Brooklyn Renaissance
• African Drumming

[FullSwagSyceGame507]

lol you wish you had this culture. stick with your hiphop n stanky leg my friend this is panamanian style

[hiphopson]

i mean it does say a celebratory dance extravaganza designed to shed light on the evolution of Brooklyns Black culture"

we are all black people the only reason they say African American iis because most blacks in the US America dont kno where they come from all they

[hiphopson]

know is African slaves came here and see you know that you are a Black Panamanian dont down play others im a Black American and i do like hiphop and i also like this video and i also like Reggaeton and yes there are Black Americans in that video

[chsn09]

And how do you..... what??

[hiphopson]

and how do you?

[chsn09]

@FullSwagSyceGame507

LOL!

[chsn09]

These are NOT black Americans lol! They are not of Black American descent! Many are black immigrants from other nations or their children and other descendants!

[NAJJAABEEKU]

excellent it's good seeing black Americans take pride in their African culture. As a AFRICAN man living here in the U.S. I don't see this that often.