BAM (Venue Partner)
30 Lafayette Ave
718.636.4100
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Dance Africa
- When
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May 23, 2008 – May 26, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$20 - 45
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BAM's annual DanceAfrica festival is a beloved Memorial Day blowout that brings together traditional dance, film, and art, as well as an outdoor bazaar brimming with fabrics, fashions, local crafts, and foods charting a culinary map of the African diaspora. Artistic Director Chuck Davis — the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Capezio Dance Award — hosts the fest, which celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge with the theme "Bridge to Cultural Rejuvenation & Enlightenment." Three leading dance companies — from Atlanta, Harlem, and Gambia — make the trip to Fort Greene to share the BAM Opera House stage with DanceAfrica's resident Bedford-Stuyvesant youth company for five spirited performances.
