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The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

The independent student newspaper of Northeastern University

The Huntington News

The Omo Naija x Wahala Boys perform with a bright red background with dancers wearing sunglasses and strong facial expressions. Their synced movements and coordination left the crowd in awe.

African Student Organization’s dance battle celebrates culture through dance

Emily Rodriguez, photo correspondent December 8, 2024

Northeastern’s African Student Organization, or NASO, hosted their annual Battle of the ASO's Nov. 16 in Blackman Auditorium. The Battle of the ASO’s brought together African dance student organizations from select universities across Boston and surrounding areas for a night...

Northeastern Irish Dance Club fosters community over shared love of traditional jigs

Northeastern Irish Dance Club fosters community over shared love of traditional jigs

Sofia Garrett, news staff November 26, 2024

Students partake in four- and eight-hand reels and compete in two competitions annually while members of the Northeastern University Irish Dance Club. The organization also allows them to bond with students housed in colleges far different than their own.

A drum set in the Ryder 364 practice room. Students expressed frustrations with the limited number of music and performing arts practice spaces available on campus.

Lack of practice space on campus holds back performing art groups and musicians, students say

Auden Oakes, news correspondent November 7, 2024

Donovan Collins, a fourth-year behavioral neuroscience major, has been a drummer since he was 10. Once he got to Northeastern, he joined the pep band not only to continue working on his craft, but also for the added benefit that ensemble drummers get: access to the drum set practice...

A member of the troupe holds a pole with a sphere at the top, known as the “Pearl of Wisdom,” as other members make the dragon curl around itself during the Boston University Taiwanese American Student Association’s annual night market March 30. Troupe members had the dragon chase the sphere to represent the creature's pursuit of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Northeastern dance troupe aims to unite students through cultural art of Chinese dragon, lion dance

Amanda Logcher and Devyn Rudnick April 15, 2024

At the heart of Chinese culture within Northeastern’s campus, an ancient practice comes alive with the rhythmic tune of chants and the colorful spectacle of a dragon puppet.  The Northeastern University Dragon & Lion Dance Troupe is a student-run organization that strives...

Student leaders demonstrate fundamental movements of Bhangra. By going through individual dance moves and slowly stringing them together, NSSA made the workshop accessible to all dance levels.

Bhangra Workshop offers pocket of culture amid busy midterms season

Anne Zhu, photo correspondent March 28, 2024

The Northeastern Sikh Student Association, or NSSA, and the Office of Global Services, or OGS, welcomed spring with a vibrant celebration of Punjabi culture March 15 in AfterHours. Drawing an impressive crowd of undergraduate and graduate students, the Bhangra dance workshop...

Actors perform at CHUANG Stage, an organization which received grants through the Boston Cultural Council and Recover Creative Boston in the spring of 2022.

With help from Mayor Michelle Wu, Boston arts organizations start to revive from pandemic damages

Cathy Ching, projects editor April 13, 2022

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