Step Afrika!: Stono

Step Afrika!, formed in 1994, combines historical African-American percussive dance with African traditions and contemporary forms to create its own vocabulary of movement. Now C. Brian Williams's company step back onstage at the New Vic—where its Drumfolk was playing when the shutdown hit—with a work that pays tribute to the Stono Rebellion, a large-scale 1739 revolt by enslaved Africans in South Carolina.