An ethnic community has to find a way to impart its traditions to the next generation if it wants to keep alive that spark or flicker of sweeping cultural history and identity. Such traditions can be ...

Every year during the Water Splashing Festival, the area in front of the Puti Temple gradually becomes lively. On the evening of the festival, a banquet promoting ethnic unity is held in front of the ...

The Annual Multicultural Ethnic Dance Festival is coming up on May 31 at the Gateway. The Emerald Hills Institute builds an inclusive community through active conversations among different faiths, ...

Delvina Westcott has been dancing for more than 30 years. She learned as a child to dance with abandon and give in to the joy of the music and the movement. With training she learned to control the ...

Group folk dancing has long been considered a non-verbal, universal language that brings people together. The Midwest Folk Dance Association held its June Camp Folk Dance Weekend, June 12 – 15, at ...

In October, the autumn wind sweeps across the golden fields of northeast China, and the black soil embraces the harvest season. The Korean ethnic group don vibrant traditional costumes, strike ...

Cultural traditions as different as those of the Congo, Afghanistan, China and Hawaii are featured in 36 dances and 26 world premieres at the 2010 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The 32nd ...

Maybelle Valenti, 9, of Sayville says she likes taking Irish dance classes because she likes the sparkly dresses she gets to wear. But her mother, Juliette, 41, a teacher, likes that her daughter is ...