Step Afrika! music and dance in LA Feb. 23

Step Afrika! (Music & Dance, America/Africa)

Like a band without instruments, stepping is a percussive dance that uses kicks, stomps, claps and chants to create visually and musically exciting rhythms that enthrall audiences. As the world’s first professional dance company devoted to stepping, Step Afrika! is a high energy performance with roots in African dance and military marching. The performance includes a South African gumboot dance, a South African Zulu dance, and routines in collegiate step traditions practiced by men and women all across the United States. First developed by college groups in the mid 1900’s, today stepping can be found in elementary, middle and high schools, as well as in churches and community-based organizations. Based in Washington, D.C., the company has performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the White House and as a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department at events throughout the world.


WHEN:

Saturday, February 23, 2013
11:00 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.

WHERE:

World City at the Music Center is presented at the W.M. Keck Foundation Children's Amphitheatre at the Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Avenue,

Los Angeles. Free tickets are distributed on Grand Avenue at 2nd Street, starting at 10:00 a.m. for the 11:00 a.m. performance and at 11:00 a.m. for the 12:30 p.m. performance.

WHY:

Celebrate and discover cultures from different peoples and places—or potentially even your own—all for FREE at World City at The Music Center. The post-performance visual arts workshops, designed by The Music Center Teaching Artists, give children the opportunity to explore the featured culture through unique art-making projects such as calligraphy, puppets and musical instruments.