Friday Night Live! High Life Dance Party
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Rivera Court
Highlife was a style of urban recreational dance popular in West Africa in the 1950s. It originated in James Barnor’s Ghana, where musicians adopted Western dance-band instruments at open-air nightclubs to celebrate the exuberant spirit of independence. Join the DIA’s High Life Dance Party with the Adom High Life Band and learn its graceful and expressive moves with instructor Sasu Amen Ra.
Presented alongside the exhibition James Barnor: Accra/London—A Retrospective.
Image: James Barnor (Ghana, b. 1929). Tempos Band, birthday celebrations, Adabraka neighborhood, Accra, 1958 (printed 2010–20). Gelatin silver print. Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris.
© James Barnor, courtesy Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris.
Friday Night Live! High Life Dance Party
Ticket Details
Rivera Court
Related Exhibition
James Barnor: Accra/London: A Retrospective
May 28 - October 15, 2023
The DIA (Detroit Institute of Arts) proudly presents the exhibition, James Barnor: Accra/London—A Retrospective, a comprehensive survey of the work of Ghanaian photographer James Barnor whose career spans more than six decades. A studio portraitist, photojournalist, and Black lifestyle photographer, Barnor was born in 1929 in the West African nation of Ghana.
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