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Dance Africa 2005 in Brooklyn

After my Memorial Day experience yesterday I went to the Brooklyn Academy of Music to see Victor, my host. He works at BAM and invited me to come over to see the closing ceremony of Dance Africa, America’s longest-running annual festival of dance, music, film, art, and culture from Africa and the African Diaspora.

I was really amazed when I arrived there. The whole place in front of the BAM and the streets around it have been closed for this purpose. A huge mass of people have been waiting to see the actors, the dancers and musicians of Dance Africa on the closed off place doing there performences on the street. On the surrounding streets was one huge street fair with food and clothes.
The light was wonderfull, enforcing all those rich colors of the African dresses. You could feel the good and peaceful spirits in the air, all sorts of people hanging out together, enjoying the rythms, the dances, food and drinks and the sun of course. A very nice and relaxed multicultural festival in the middle of Brooklyn! A huge contrast to my earlier Memorial Day experience.

Posted by Martin Fuchs on May 30, 2005 07:48 PM