Dance historians and musicologists have offered different accounts of the juba dance form, but most agree about its African origins — in parts of West Africa, it was called Giouba, and later ...

The series visits Washington Park on Sunday, July 14 at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. Rhythm World 34 concert 1 starts here! The Chicago Human Rhythm Project welcomes you ...

Tickets start at $15 and are available online at WhartonArts.org.. The New Jersey Youth Symphony commissioned Maurice Chestnut to choreograph Price's Juba Dance specially for this concert and ...

The evening will start with a "Juba" dance from Haiti, a celebration of the harvest. The tempo of the piece is slower, with graceful, flowing movements, said Kiteya Vasquez. That will be followed by ...

Complete Information About JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance – Student Showcase in Chicago at Studebaker Theater. Join us at the annual Rhythm World Student Showcase to see and hear tap ...

Talk about masters! Each evening in the Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s final weekend features a different tapper with decades of dancing under his belt. Harold Cromer, who performs Friday, was ...

Tonight, the Chicago Human Rhythm Project presents “JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance”, a free performance featuring many of the world’s most celebrated tap dancers.

Now, Ko-Thi Dance Company is celebrating its half-century of performing with a show called Juba-Lee, named in honor of William Henry Lane (known as Mr. Juba), the father of tap dancing. "This ...

Juba Dance. Orange. BY David Dacks Published Mar 23, 2007. Benjamin Lamar was born and raised in the south side of Chicago and has absorbed all its musical lessons from the last 50 years.

RESEARCH: The juba dance developed into tap dancing largely because of a very famous African-American dancer called ‘Master Juba’. Tap dancing then grew into street dancing.