Duniya Dance and Drum Company, the Bay Area's only South Asian and West African dance and drum company will be partnering with Feline Finesse, an all-female, youth dance organization from Bayview Hunters Point, will be hosting a music and dance festival.
As the co-artistic director of Duniya Dance and Drum Company, San Francisco choreographer Joti Singh has forged a singularly powerful body of work combining Bhangra with West African rhythms. She continues to explore this dazzlingly fertile hybrid with Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink, a site-specific outdoor performance merging live Punjabi folk music, Bhangra dance and […]
Duniya Dance and Drum Company presents the Fourth Annual African Arts Festival, a free, family-friendly celebration of live music and dance performed by nine Bay Area ensembles representing different regions of Africa and the African diaspora. Scheduled to perform are Duniya Dance and Drum Company, Chinyakare Ensemble, Diamano Coura, Feline Finesse, Shabbal Al Sudan, Arenas […]
One day only at Dance Mission Theater! Join us for a day of performance excerpts, work-in-progress showings, film screening, and panel discussion exploring the the vibrant, layered, and largely unknown social-political relationship between Cuba and Guinea, West Africa forged by the transatlantic slave trade as well as the post-colonial dance/culture exchange that began in the […]
