The St. Petersburg urban African ballet troupe Dundu Dolé has carried the flag of Afrocentric culture in the Bay area for 15 years. The sizeable group presents a high-energy presentation of indigenous African drumming and athletic (and balletic) ensemble dance that quickens your pulse, puts a smile on your face and makes you move in ways you didn't know were possible. Fri., Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m., Palladium Theater, 253 Fifth Ave. N., St. Petersburg, $5-$18, 727-822-3590, www.mypalladium.org.

This article appears in Feb 15-21, 2006.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...