1.   African dance is vigorous, but full of subtlety.

2.   Askia Swift, in the first male solo, showed how the choreographer borrowed from African dance in his articulation of isolated movements.

3.   At Lehman, Salaam also studied African dance with Chuck Davis, later joining his company and touring Africa.

4.   At the reception, a musician played African drums and, a female dancer performed an African dance.

5.   Bintou Dembele, the only woman, has a dancelike vitality and has trained in African dance.

6.   A few dances also incorporate more contemporary moves, but all, Katoola says, are designed to carry on the authentic traditions and values of African dance.

7.   A rich new strain of modern dance is emerging based on borrowings from African dance, hip-hop and social dancing, and Aviles embodies that mix.

8.   African mimetic dances weave in as a motif.

9.   After more than a dozen years in France, she had decided to start a new school for traditional and contemporary African dance in Senegal.

10.   But anyone familiar with African dance would recognize that her suite of seven sections is a creative gloss on an African ceremonial.