"African Dance On Fire" @ NYPL

Ronald K. Brown in "GRACE" Photo: Basil Childers

Thursday, April 4 @ 6:00pm
ON FIRE WITH AFRICAN DANCE- Ronald K.
Brown/Evidence: Cultural Exchange through
Ancestors, Inspiration and  Grace.  With his dancers Arcell Cabuag, Otis Donovan Herring, Clarice  Young, and Annique Roberts, Ronald K. Brown will talk about their trips to Africa and show video clips. 

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Painting of Robert Farris Thompson. Courtesy of the artist Simmie Knox

Thursday, March 16 @ 6:00pm
ON FIRE WITH AFRICAN DANCE- Staccato 
Incandescence: The Story of Mambo with Robert Farris Thompson.

Farris Thompson is America's most prominent scholar of  African Art, and has presided over exhibitions of African art at the  National Gallery  in Washington, D.C. He lived in the Yoruba region of  southwest Nigeria for many years while he conducted his research of  Yoruba arts history.

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http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/55/node/197251?lref=55%2Fcalendar

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