Do you do the Shaku Shaku? Zanku’s legwork? How about a throwback: the Galala, anyone? The West African musical genre — Afrobeats — has thousands of distinctive steps and moves that can be learned ...

A new festival happening in Virginia Beach this weekend gives people a chance to get in on a cultural movement reaching across the globe. The Tidewater African Cultural Alliance will host its first ...

Boston dance lovers are moving to a new beat. “Afrobeats is fresh. It’s new,” said Chidinma “Chi-Chi” Osuagwu, the founder and co-director of Afrobeats Dance Boston. “Afrobeats and its mark on the ...

Looking to freshen up your dance moves before the sun sets on what has been a year with far less dancing than usual? Thanks to the Tidewater African Cultural Alliance, you can soon learn from the blue ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join Christian Mintah, who is in the MFA in contemporary dance program at CWRU, for an Afrobeats Dance Workshop Friday, Nov. 15, ...

A new collection mashes-up Jamaican dancehall, soca, hip-hop and polyrhythms from Ghana and Nigeria. Critic Milo Miles says Afrobeats Hot Hits is a "seductive invitation to dance." This is FRESH AIR.

Billboard Latin Music Week 2025 included a series of emerging artists showcases, featuring everyone from Lupita Infante and Christian Alicea to Alejo, Zizzy and Chaparro Chuacheneguer.

Naponi Jurkin has a hard time finding a place to dance in Dallas. “I won’t go somewhere if I know the music is bad or the DJ is bad,” Jurkin said. Jurkin, who is South Sudanese, has struggled to find ...

Afrobeats is approaching tipping point. Not to be confused with the well established sound of Afrobeat (although certainly a distant relation of Fela Kuti’s hybrid of highlife, jazz and funk) the ...

Naponi Jurkin has a hard time finding a place to dance in Dallas. “I won’t go somewhere if I know the music is bad or the DJ is bad,” Jurkin said. Jurkin, who is South Sudanese, has struggled to find ...