Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture
DanceAfrica
Date
Friday, May 28, 2027 to Monday, May 31, 2027
Date checked Oct 2026 on the organizer's site
Location
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (bazaar on the streets around BAM)
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Organized by
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
About this happenin
In 1977 the dancer and choreographer Charles Rudolph Davis, known as Baba Chuck, created DanceAfrica at BAM in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. It runs over Memorial Day weekend, a festival of African and African American dance and music that BAM calls America's largest celebration of its kind and its own longest-running program. Performances fill the Howard Gilman Opera House, with master classes, community events, the FilmAfrica series, visual art and a late-night dance party around them. Outside, the bazaar is free. More than 150 vendors from around the world sell food, crafts and fashion on Ashland Place and Lafayette Avenue. Abdel R. Salaam has been artistic director since 2015.
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Where
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (bazaar on the streets around BAM) · 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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