By Jon Pareles Tshala Muana, a Congolese singer who brought ... She was praised as the “queen” of mutuashi, a traditional Kasai rhythm and hip-pumping dance which she updated in her hits ...

Mutuashi is a traditional dance of the Luba people from DR Congo's central Kasai region. With a wrapper around the hips to accentuate the movement, the Luba would gyrate sensually like they were ...

Ballet Grand Danseurs is a Kinshasa-based group formed in 2011 to preserve the traditional dances of the Congo’s ethnic groups. Chika Oduah has this story from Kinshasa.

She excelled at promoting the sexy traditional mutuashi cultural dance expressing feminism. Her hit songs from when she left DR Congo to hone her talent in West Africa, performing in Abidjan ...

Tshala, who died last December aged 64, was a Congolese rumba musician from the Luba ethnic group in Kasai province. She picked up her then unknown Tshiluba traditional dance, Mutuashi ...

More than 600 people of all ages, refugees and local Congolese residents, attend a variety of courses including children’s dance, contemporary African dance, hip-hop and traditional dance. Fabrice ...

It's hard to watch the students learning to dance in the small Binghampton church without smiling. The room is dark, and the lack of strong central air conditioning makes it a little hot.

"If you go in my country, all the kids dance. It's normal, it's the culture. You just follow the music. [Here], I put on my traditional music from Congo and then I dance and the children see me ...

Tshala Muana is considered the "Queen of Mutuashi", a traditional music and dance from her native Kasai ... in the soundtrack of the popular 1987 Congolese musical film La Vie est Belle and ...

More than 600 people of all ages, refugees and local Congolese residents, attend a variety of courses including children’s dance, contemporary African dance, hip-hop and traditional dance. Fabrice ...