DANCE

African Diaspora Through Music and Dance

Bloco Obini, an all female drum ensemble brings music and dance from the African diaspora to audiences across Los Angeles. In addition to performing, founder of the group, Kahlil Cummings and Ensemble member Rachel Hernandez also teach drum and dance class that fuses together West African, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-Cuban styles to a diverse group of Angelenos. “When we bring the workshops together,” Hernandez said. “We bring the Afro-Cuban, Afro-Brazilian [styles] to show the differences and also to show the similarities of how things relate and how they were just separated within the diaspora by boats and which way they went....