Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (December 2022), pp. 33-80 (48 pages) Nachania (नचंनिया), translated as ‘female dancer’, refers to both a traditional Indo-Jamaican folk dance ...

When someone asks you about your background, how do you respond? Many would include a hyphen in their descriptions: German-American, French-Canadian, African-American, and so on. But Yvette Martinez ...

Stand in a circle, grapevine to the right, clap then kick Q — this is the stuff of which typical folk dance education in this country is made. Taught begrudgingly by an athletic coach, these steps do ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Easter weekend is here and it's time to hop into the Seacoast entertainment scene. This weekend the Benchmark at Rye is hosting an ...

Dancers from the Caribbean Dance Company took the stage once again this month for the first time in two years, as they marked their 40th student showcase, “2021 Students of Caribbean Dance School,” at ...

The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica will celebrate its 55th birthday with a pair of shows this weekend at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts. The performances on March 18 and 19 ...

I didn’t see her on any list of notables who died in 2013, but Marie Brooks — whose love of Afro-Caribbean dance and culture was expressed through decades of dedicated movement, passion and education ...

Since the late nineteen-seventies, the streets of Jamaica’s capital city, Kingston, have been decorated with ad-hoc placards promising quick, transformative thrills. The signs—hand-painted on ...