“World Dance for Humanity Visits Rwanda,” from Justin Covington and Linda Sturesson of Noozhawk. Less than 20 years ago, Rwanda endured a genocide that left more than 500,000 people dead. Today, many ...

This week, Rwanda played host to a week-long dance festival that attracted over 10 participating countries from all over the world. The biennial dance festival, usually referred to as FESPAD, the ...

Within a week of the COVID-19 lockdown, World Dance for Humanity launched free daily Zoom classes. Since then, the Santa Barbara-based nonprofit has been offering people of all ages and abilities a ...

Since she was a child, the founder of Ballet Rwanda, Caroline Joan Peixoto always knew that she wanted to be a ballerina and, perhaps one day, teach dance. This was a goal that she accomplished when, ...

Fourteen African countries have been invited for the Pan-African Dance Festival known as FESPAD due in Rwanda next week. Rwanda's Minister of Sports and Culture Julienne Uwacu told journalists in ...

“I never saw ballet before. It was the first time I saw people turn on their toes,” said Niyomwungeri, “Dance helped me change my life.” “When I am dancing I feel happy,” said Byiringiro “It makes me ...

The dance is performed during weddings, ceremonies and important cultural events. Notably, Igishakamba dancers and drummers, express communal desires, values and collective creativity. Jean-Damascène ...

This February’s annual Stanford Dance Marathon (DM) announced that Partners in Health (PIH) in Rwanda will be the sole beneficiary of their fundraiser. This year, the DM team highlighted several ...

We arrived in Kigali, Rwanda after a non-stop 30-hour road trip. From the moment we cross the border from Uganda, we realise how different everything about this country is. First, we had to do away ...

The production "Bikutsi 3000" of Blick Bassy was created in Cameroon in 2022 in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Kamerun and the Institut Français du Cameroun, with support from the ...