The first time Dr. Ruth Eshel witnessed esketa (which means shoulder dance, in Amharic), she was astounded. “I knew immediately that this was something new and different, something I had never seen ...

On October 14 at the Osher Marin JCC in San Rafael, California, at a performance for 400 middle school students from six different Bay Area Jewish day schools, the members of the Beta Dance Troupe ...

It didn't seem like the scene could get any sunnier Sunday, as thousands of Ethiopians and admirers of Ethiopian culture gathered on the north shore of Oakland's Lake Merritt -- the women in ...

NORTHAMPTON – It was a rainy Wednesday night. And although outside the heavens were screaming in sadness, it was surely due to the fact that the five men and five women dancers of the Eskesta dance ...

When Tzvika Iskais and Yael Simon take the stage Sunday night for the Hullegeb Israeli-Ethiopian Arts Festival, the two actors and dancers will be working out some of their demons, of the distant past ...

The word "debo" is an archaic Ethiopian expression that, at its core, means "collective communal effort." It makes perfect sense then, that Sub Pop recording artists, Debo Band use that word as the ...

This year’s festival takes place on September 9-11 at the host venue, The Mazkeka in downtown Jerusalem, and The Yellow Submarine and the Shalem Dance Center in Talpiyot. Almost anyone who has made ...

‘The songs I grew up with’: Tezeta Band brings old school Ethiopian dance music to Waterfront Blues Fest ...