With so many smart people weighing in ... the commodification of jazz dance as empty entertainment — not just on contemporary reality TV but among popular Black performers through the decades.

In 2015, when America was in peril once again — unarmed black people were being killed ... a more accessible blend of jazz, Southern R&B and polyrhythmic dance. The meaning didn’t change ...

Before her dazzling career dropped out from under her, Hazel Scott blew up piano jazz and ... Robbins Dance Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. People of color were ...

Her interest in reestablishing the link between jazz and dance, however ... as club and record label owners — “didn’t want Black people getting that free” in integrated spaces “Some ...

Fifty years after founding her ensemble, she believes dance is essential, and that it is food for the souls of Black people ... with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, the performance will ...

A Holocaust survivor who helped revolutionize the dance world in Philadelphia is now sharing his story in a powerful new ...

“Dance was, and is, a space for Black people to find freedom in the midst of turmoil and strife.” Barnes’s performance piece “The Jazz Continuum,” which received two 2023 Bessie Awards ...

The American musical art form jazz ... public dance halls. The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run nightclubs, the venues that serve alcohol and hire black musicians.

One of the most notable destinations the building housed was a dance hall in the 1920s ... similar sense as he pursues a future in jazz music. “Black people, from America’s inception, their ...

Shimon Braun, founder of the legendary Waves Jazz Dance Company, sat down with CBS Philadelphia’s Wakisha Bailey to reflect ...