With West Indian Week fast approaching, the Cultural Dance Troupe of the West Indies is getting ready to take its dances to the streets. The group will help kick off the 32nd celebration of West ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During rehearsal, the music is spiritually uplifting for members of the Jamaican Folk Revue. In the church meeting room, they tell stories through lyrics, about love and marriage, dance and games, ...

CARTAGENA, ColombiaCARTAGENA, Colombia — On a brick plaza in this walled colonial port where slave ships once dumped human cargo, a young black man cries out a Spanish verse over the beating of his ...

The Jamaican reggae star had a breakout performance in the 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” playing a singer-turned-outlaw.

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 ...

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If you didn't know any better and wandered into Portsmouth on Saturday night, you'd think you'd been transported back to the '90s. Say Zuzu is playing the Press Room and Heavens to Murgatroid is ...