With their dazzling, colorful costumes and energetic dancing, the Ballet National du Senegal offers some of the best folk performance on tour today. The West African company of 40 dancers, singers and ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The performance was inspired by Baba Abdel R. Salaam's visits to Senegal.

While Senghor and Négritude may have ushered in a cultural renaissance, and created not only the structures, but also the means to support the National Ballet (among other artistic endeavors), the ...

The last time this company was here, in 1998, it performed Pangols, a compendium of Senegalese music and dance designed to show the spiritual nature of all beings and things. The new work on its ...

TOUBAB DIALAW, Senegal (AP) — The glow of a tobacco pipe illuminates the stage before dancer Germaine Acogny begins to move. She uses a simple black cloth to portray her many identities: African, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The UB Center for the Arts will continue the 2002-03 KeyBank Dance Series with Le Ballet National du Senegal at 8 p.m. on Nov 7 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on ...

Thanksgiving weekend has a lot of traditions — besides turkey, there’s the parade and Black Friday shopping. Philadelphia is home to another tradition that’s decades strong. The Philly-based African ...

The National Dance Company of Senegal brings its unique mixture of West African dance, storytelling and song to the Auditorium Theatre at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. The program, ...