Step Afrika! Part of the Inauguration Lineup
Thursday Nov, 05 2015
The public is invited to the four-days of inauguration activities to welcome the new president and share in the celebration of the institution’s music, faith, and community components. The Huston-Tillotson University Board of Trustees announced Colette Pierce Burnette as the institution’s sixth President and Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1, 2015. Pierce Burnette becomes the first female president of the merged Huston-Tillotson University and only the second female president in the institutions’ 140-year history.
On Thursday, November 5 at 7 p.m. in King-Seabrook Chapel, the Step Afrika company will perform in King-Seabrook Chapel. Step Afrika was founded in 1994 as the first professional company dedicated to the tradition of stepping. Stepping, developed by African American college fraternity and sorority members in the early 1900s, remains a popular form of expression and entertainment today. Step Afrika now ranks as one of the top ten African American dance companies in the United States. Dancers perform South African gumboot, Zulu, as well as high energy step routines.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE INAUGURATION INVITATION
Saturday, November 7, 2015
DINNER I SILENT AUCTION I DANCE
Blue Mist
Huston – Tillotson President Inaugural Gala
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