During rehearsal, the music is spiritually uplifting for members of the Jamaican Folk Revue. In the church meeting room, they tell stories through lyrics, about love and marriage, dance and games ...

Amanda Petrusich on Jamaica’s dancehall-music scene and the book “Serious Things A Go Happen: Three Decades of Jamaican Dancehall Signs,” by Maxine Walters.

After 15 years together, Campion Dance Society mounted its 13th Season of Dance with Nexxus at the Little Theatre this past ...

The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica will celebrate its 55th birthday with a pair of shows this weekend at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts. The performances on March 18 and 19 ...

Michael Holgate, conceptualiser of Jamaica Dance Umbrella (JDU), says the concept continues to etch its way through the Caribbean's performing arts glass ceiling. “Every year is unique ...

When you’re hot you’re hot. And when you’re not–well, if you’re the West Indian Folk Dance Company, you’re still pretty entertaining. A recent rehearsal of the first half of the troupe ...

Nachania (नचंनिया), translated as ‘female dancer’, refers to both a traditional Indo-Jamaican folk dance that has local origins in indentureship, and to those who perform it. The dance is ...

National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica will headline Let's Dance International Frontiers 2024 on May 3rd and 4th at Curve Leicester. Add a Show Listing: UK REGIONAL. Email: Sign-up: ...

Recently back from a trip to Jamaica, Richard Edson of the Folk Art Gallery has mounted an exhibit of Jamaican artists of African descent.The works of these artists — painters, sculptors and one ...