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Black Brooklyn Renaissance: African Dance/Brooklyn Style

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Channel: deebeezy · 2010 · Entertainment

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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.

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