Dafora's career as a dancer, choreographer, director and writer went on from the 1930s to the 1960s. his contribution to modern dance was based mainly on him creation of dance-drama as an art form. He proved that African dance wasn't just a fun, colorful, rhythmic dance, but actually consisted of complicated, complex dance techniques, which he felt needed some type of recognition and study. This talented artist settled in Harlem who in the late 1920s set out to create dances of african folk on the proscenium stage. He combined African dances with western staging that no one had ever seen before. Dafora's African dance, the Ostrich Dance, was the first dance seen in America that was staged as a concert dance.
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