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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Manuel Mendoza is a freelance writer and a former staff critic at The Dallas Morning News.

ODC Theater presents Compagnie Hervé Koubi in its West Coast debut with “What the Day Owes to the Night.”Didier Philispart A vernacular of street dance and modern dance becomes the language for a ...

A short film featuring several dancers from different countries: first an Arabian dancer, then an Algerian belly dancer, and finally Scottish highlanders in kilts performing a jig. Section one is ...