Sunday
October 26
4 p.m.
Clarke Chapel
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STEP AFRIKA! DANCE TROUPE TO PERFORM AT |
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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- Step Afrika!, an explosive
percussive dance ensemble, performs at Lycoming College on October
26. The 4 p.m. performance, sponsored by the Lycoming College Black
Student Union and the Campus Activities Board, takes place in Clarke
Chapel.
Founded in December, 1996, the company highlights the African-American art form of stepping and its links to dance traditions around the world. Step Afrika! has performed all over the Europe, America and South Africa. It is on a 60-stop tour of colleges and universities from Maine to Mississippi. Reviewers describe the company's performance as a "high energy brand of precision stepping"-a dance genre considered by some to be one of the most exciting created by Americans in the 21st century---and its performers "an enormously powerful ensemble of dancers. Included in the repertoire are stepping, tap, South African dances including Zulu and gumboot, modern, hip-hop, house and freestyle dancing The company is by product of the Step Afrika International Cultural Festival, held annually in Soweto, South Africa. Based in Washington, D.C., Step Afrika! is a non-profit organization sponsored in part by the Washington, D.C. Commission of the Arts and Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information, see the website www.stepafrika.com. |
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