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Keur Khaleyi Fundraiser
Support the efforts of Jihan Von Hendricks, founder and artistic director of Keur Khaleyi African Dance Company, based in Baltimore Maryland. The company has a Kickstarter fundraising project up and they are only $400 away from reaching their goal! Here’s an excerpt from the kickstarter page: For our second annual showcase, Mansa Bakary 2, July 7, 2012, we’re raising funds for costumes for our teen dancers and other production costs. Keur Khaleyi, (pronounced Hah-lay-ye), means house of the children –we prioritize the transfer of our shared African cultural legacy…
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Black Male Development Symposium
On Saturday May 12th, the RND staff debut their new program the Redefinition of Manhood (ROM) Project at the Black Male Development Symposium. The ROM Project is a training program that seeks to provide guidance to young men of the African Diaspora through mentorship, performing arts development and rites of passage indoctrination. The training is based on several core concepts that all combine together to create a nurturing, yet disciplined foundation for young African American males in a world where they are often misunderstood and marginalized through…
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ASA! Dance Classes! Join the movement!
Join ASA! founder and fitness dance instructor Akosua Akoto every Tuesday and Saturday as she takes you on a fitness journey through dance! Varying in levels of intensity, ASA! is a low impact, upbeat workout that fuses traditional and modern (“club”) dance movements of west, central, east and southern Africa with aerobic exercises. It targets all muscle groups, particularly core/stabilizing muscle groups, for a full aerobic and strength-training workout disguised in the fun, exciting, and body and soul stimulating manner that defines African dance. An…
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Intersections Festival featuring “Just Tap” and “Shange Dance Productions”
Come enjoy two electrifying performances by Quynn Johnson’s tap company “Just Tap” and Kutia Jawara’s African-infused modern dance company “Shange Dance Productions”. Buy tickets to both shows and receive a 15% percent discount. Discount code: GivingItSole
RnD News
Black Male Development Symposium
Launch
On Saturday May 12th, the RND staff debut their new program the Redefinition of Manhood (ROM) Project at the Black Male Development Symposium. The ROM Project is a training program that seeks to provide guidance to young men of the African Diaspora through mentorship, performing arts development and rites of passage indoctrination. The training is based on several core concepts that all combine together to create a nurturing, yet disciplined foundation for young African American males in a world where they are often misunderstood and marginalized through…
Danse Edeyo – Thank You!
Launch
From all the staff here at Rhythm N Dance, we would like to give our DC dance community a huge THANK YOU for supporting our Haiti dance camp fundraiser “DANSE-EDEYO”. The weekend long event, which featured several Haitian Dance workshops featuring Oakland-based Haitian folkloric dance company Rara Tou Limen, raised a grand total of $2,000 towards the Dance Camp we will have at the Joyous Heart school in Port-Au-Prince Haiti. We’d like to thank the local dance companies who supported us in this event by…