Even in its 39th year, the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is still uncovering examples of the Bay Area’s inexhaustible cultural bounty and displaying them with uncommon flair. That was clearly ...

Some in the audience were crying. Others were silent but no less moved. Happens frequently during performances at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, but this was different. This was San ...

In the rehearsal hall of the Dance Academy at Minzu University of China (MUC), drum beats mingle with the melody of the morin khuur, a traditional Mongolian bowed instrument. Jiang Tiehong, a sturdy, ...

The San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is one of the largest cultural dance festivals in the United States. Presented by San Francisco’s World Arts West, this festival attracts more than 9,000 ...

The San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, now in its 39th season, is an intoxicating kaleidoscope — vibrantly-hued costumes, soulful live music and exuberant dancing that spotlights cultures from ...

Ethnic Dance Theater's director Donald LaCourse shares their costume collection. Fifty-five different cultures are represented in Ethnic Dance Theater, a 36 year-old organization that aims to preserve ...

West African drum rhythms. Bold flamenco inspired by Cadíz. An Alaskan Yuk’ip Eskimo dance not seen in public for 200 years. A 10-year-old phenom in South Indian kuchipudi. Spanning all these and much ...

A performance of the original Chinese dance drama In the Distance, Here, which incorporates elements from various ethnic dances, officially kicked off the 7th China Xinjiang International Dance ...

This weekend and next, you can catch dancers from around the world without digging out your passport or spending your life’s savings on plane tickets. Such is the beauty of the annual Ethnic Dance ...

The field of this research is the area of Thrace in Greece, in which people from various ethnic groups coexist for almost a century. Most of these ethnic groups moved to the area, after voluntary ...

3 ICYMI: Next On Stage: Season 5- Meet the Top 15 The critically acclaimed San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival returns this October in a brand new format: film. The San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival ...