"Sweat Yuh Culture!” Feteness founder and instructor Allie Guilbaud hollers on a recent Tuesday night in the studio of Tip Tap Toe Dance Studio in Elmont. "Sweat Yuh Culture!” the 20 attendees in bike ...

As the temperature begins to drop this winter, it becomes harder and harder to imagine warm weather, sunshine or palm trees, but the Zuvaa Afro-Caribbean dancers make this a little bit easier. The ...

The temperature was hot, the food spicy and the dancing had a calypso flair at the second annual Treasure Coast Jerk Festival at the Port St. Lucie Civic Center. And like the Caribbean American ...

NORFOLK – If you’re downtown Saturday, don’t be surprised to see revelers in elaborate, story telling costumes jumping, winding their waists to calypso rhythms and celebrating all things West Indian.

The people of Trinidad live and breathe Carnival. A time of celebration, Carnival combines music and dance with elaborate costumes to produce a spectacle of extravagance and energy. People fill the ...

Caribbean calypso and soca star Alphonsus Cassell, who performed under the professional name Arrow, died Sept. 15 from brain cancer complications on the island of Montserrat. He was 60. Arrow was best ...

A legend in Trinidad, Calypso Rose closed out globalFEST with the sensuous, vintage dance music of her Caribbean home. Having recorded her early hits in the mid-'60s, Rose is a venerable diva of an ...

TORONTO – Heart-pumping tunes and hip-shaking grooves are central to dance workouts, but a homegrown fitness regimen is delivering its own unique spin by incorporating island-inspired moves and music.

What it is: These energetic Caribbean styles are characterized by continuous hip-rolling and thrusting; the waist-burning movements are often incorporated into Zumba workouts. What it sounds like: ...

One common assumption about the demographics of Coachella is that it’s a youth festival, dense with a superficiality that no grown-up, even singer Calypso Rose, could possibly enjoy. While it’s true ...