On October 14 at the Osher Marin JCC in San Rafael, California, at a performance for 400 middle school students from six different Bay Area Jewish day schools, the members of the Beta Dance Troupe ...

Nowadays, one of the major shows in Addis Ababa is a play entitled Selamta at Jazzamba club. Written and directed by Meaza Worku, the play narrates the story of an indecisive woman and tales of her ...

The Ethiocolor dance group performs at Fendika cabaret in Addis Ababa - Copyright AFP May JAMES The Ethiocolor dance group performs at Fendika cabaret in Addis Ababa ...

The first time Dr. Ruth Eshel witnessed esketa (which means shoulder dance, in Amharic), she was astounded. “I knew immediately that this was something new and different, something I had never seen ...

Addis Ababa - There's a new way of doing diplomacy in Ethiopia's capital, one that forsakes communiques and speeches in favour of music, sweat and bare feet. A troupe of New York-based dancers arrived ...

Ethiopia’s biggest contemporary dance company has transformed street children into professional dancers who now enjoy international recognition and have been freed from the grinding poverty of their ...

Two decades earlier, Fendika was one of 17 "azmari bet" (a venue hosting performances by Ethiopia's azmari musicians) in the Kazanchis district, a neighbourhood harkening back to Addis Ababa's ...