Article: The black dance at 651.(651 ARTS annual Black Dance: Tradition and Transformation festival)

There's a wide world of contemporary African-based dance that many dance lovers don't see or know about. These forms are as different from traditional African dance as American modern dance is from nineteenth-century ballet. They are created and practiced in Africa as well as across the African diaspora (communities outside of continental Africa inhabited by peoples of African descent). But opportunities for Americans--even New Yorkers--to see them have, in the past, been few and far between. Maurine Knighton, executive producer and president of Brooklyn's 651 ARTS (www.651ARTS.org), aims to change that picture with Black Dance: Tradition and Transformation (BDTT), an ...

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