DJANET, Algeria — In one hand, the dancers hold swords symbolizing battle. In the other, a piece of cloth symbolizing peace. They dance a shuffling “step-step” to the beat of drums and chanting from ...

In a riot of colour, music and dance, thousands of Tuareg have flocked to the Sebeiba festival that marks the end of an ancient tribal feud and which once a year transforms an oasis town deep in the ...

A dozen Algerian and Burkinabe dancers spin like whirling dervishes in long white skirts. But they're shirtless, look like Chippendale performers, and they're spinning on their heads. That's the ...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — THE BROOKLYN HEIGHTS PUBLIC LIBRARY will host Algerian-American dance educator Esraa Warda on Thursday for a showcase of western Algerian dance styles, which include Medahatte, Raï ...

In 2009, 249 male dancers and one female dancer met in Algiers, Algeria, to audition for an up-and-coming French choreographer Hervé Koubi. The performers who showed up to the casting call were mostly ...