Based in Washington, DC, the company has been featured on CNN, BET, PBS & NPR as well as numerous books, documentaries and articles that seek to explore the tradition of stepping. Its signature event, the annual Step Afrika International Cultural Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, is the fruit of a ten-year collaboration with the Soweto Dance Theatre that unites artists from around the world in dialogue and dance performance.If you have an opportunity to see Step Afrika!, make sure you take it. Enjoy...
Step Afrika completes an annual 50-city tour of American colleges and universities from Maine to Mississippi and frequently conducts residencies, master classes and in-school performances for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Washington Performing Arts Society, the Smithsonian Institution and in schools and community-based organizations around the world.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Step Afrika!
A friend of mine is the executive director of an incredible dance company, Step Afrika!, which is dedicated to the tradition of stepping.
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