National Black Arts Festival
2015 Program Season Launches with Focus on Dance
NBAF
continues its 27-year tradition of offering stellar artistic and
educational programs in music, dance, film, visual arts, theater and
literary arts and of attracting audiences and participants from the
region and around the world to Atlanta.
The
season launches in mid-July with programming through mid-September that
spotlights dance and the dancers, choreographers and dance companies -
the luminaries and trailblazers - who shaped and defined the discipline.
Featuring a symposium, film series, world class performances, workshops
and demonstrations and discussions, the season focuses a historical and
critical lens on dance and on the dancers and choreographers from the
18th to the 21st centuries who have had a powerful impact on
traditional, social, modern and contemporary dance forms, styles and
genres including African, the juba, chica, the Ring Shout, the Lindy
Hop, Charleston, hip hop, tap, modern and competitive street, among many
others.
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