Friday Night Live! High Life Dance Party
Register:
Friday, Jun 30, 2023
7 p.m.
| Free with registration |
*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties.
Location:
Rivera Court
5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States
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.
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.