You are here: Homepage Tag Dance Articles Manuel teaches dancing to Siddi children in Mainalli. He is a farmer and gives free workshops for children from the village in his spare time so that they can pass on old cultural traditions to the next generation Photo: Saurabh Narang Indigenous culture | India Keeping an African identity in contemporary India The Siddi ethnic group migrated to India from East Africa centuries ago. Since then, their communities have cultivated their very own culture By Saurabh Narang 11/20/2023 French dancer Maïmouna Coulibaly has been living in Berlin since 2018 Photo: Birger Jens Dance | Europe Therapeutic bum wriggling French dancer Maïmouna Coulibaly took to African dance to process experiences of sexual violence and a conservative upbringing. Now she helps others do the same with her “Booty therapy” By Maïmouna Coulibaly 07/27/2022 Soura on stage dancing in cobalt blue robe. Scene from the "Messiah" performance with the German Symphony Orchestra 2018 in Berlin. Photo: Kai Bienert Personal history | Burkina Faso Black Messiah Ahmed Soura lost his family in Burkina Faso and suffered racism in Europe. When he danced to Händel’s “Messiah” in Berlin, he understood: those who really want to be free must redeem themselves By Ahmed Soura 07/01/2022 Indigenous culture | Borneo Buried, twice Why the Tiwah of Borneo bury their dead twice By Arpan Rachman 04/14/2022
Manuel teaches dancing to Siddi children in Mainalli. He is a farmer and gives free workshops for children from the village in his spare time so that they can pass on old cultural traditions to the next generation Photo: Saurabh Narang Indigenous culture | India Keeping an African identity in contemporary India The Siddi ethnic group migrated to India from East Africa centuries ago. Since then, their communities have cultivated their very own culture By Saurabh Narang 11/20/2023
French dancer Maïmouna Coulibaly has been living in Berlin since 2018 Photo: Birger Jens Dance | Europe Therapeutic bum wriggling French dancer Maïmouna Coulibaly took to African dance to process experiences of sexual violence and a conservative upbringing. Now she helps others do the same with her “Booty therapy” By Maïmouna Coulibaly 07/27/2022
Soura on stage dancing in cobalt blue robe. Scene from the "Messiah" performance with the German Symphony Orchestra 2018 in Berlin. Photo: Kai Bienert Personal history | Burkina Faso Black Messiah Ahmed Soura lost his family in Burkina Faso and suffered racism in Europe. When he danced to Händel’s “Messiah” in Berlin, he understood: those who really want to be free must redeem themselves By Ahmed Soura 07/01/2022
Indigenous culture | Borneo Buried, twice Why the Tiwah of Borneo bury their dead twice By Arpan Rachman 04/14/2022