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The Genius of African-American Dance

Featuring experts and transformative African American dance performers, the five part series, The Genius of African-American Dance, presents for the first time the amazing story of dance innovations of former enslaved people. Building on their African dance heritage, African American dance artists created the Cakewalk, Ragtime, the Charleston, Swing, the Twist, Disco, modern dance, Breakdancing and finally Afrofuturism’s glorification of the black body through dance.