Some dance crazes last barely longer than the time it takes to flip to another radio station. Others prompt Mexican waves of booty–shaking across borders. Ghana's azonto, in which the dancers mime ...
Our hearts will not beat with the tensions of the impending elections but with the pulsating rhythms of azonto. Whether you believe it or not, azonto is a new definition of Ghana’s nucleus; a perfect ...
US-based Ghanaian musician and manager of DWP Dance Academy’s US wing, Kweku William, has bemoaned the lack of support for the Azonto genre by Ghanaians. According to him, the music genre is a cash ...
The dances are often very simple at the base level, with freestyle options that have the potential to catapult a song (and a dancer) to new heights. With endless ways to showcase individuality, there ...
Ghana, United Kingdom and the rest of the world will in the next few months witness the first ever official Azonto festival when Flash Mob Ghana (FMG) – the home of dance and entertainment introduces ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.-- Laura Armenta from the "Armentality Dance and Yoga Education" introduce us to Azonto Dance. Armenta says she will be offering an Azonto dance workshop to celebrate Kwanza.
On April 29 2016, Ghana will join over 200 countries worldwide to celebrate dance as a creative arts discipline. While the world takes on different dance forms as pertaining within their region to ...
Dance is a universal language. Some folks however would like to claim ownership of this language based on their skill of it. Different types of dance moves have evolved over the years ranging from ...
Over the past year a new dance craze has popped onto the Ghanaian music scene and has been making waves across West Africa and beyond. Azonto fever has gripped diaspora communities in the USA and in ...