The course provides students with an African dance experience with emphasis on epistemology and its somatic explorations. The course is both theoretical and experiential, with students receiving information on all that might relate to the understanding of a particular dance; such as its relationship to its history, culture, or music.
This course introduces African dance to students, with experimentation of the rooted in indigenous knowledge and philosophies surrounding the relationship of the body to the topography of ethnic settlements as well as the spiritual foundations of the body. It introduces students to the historical and cultural contexts of dance in Ghana and other parts of Africa as is evident in music, movement, drama and poetry, along with some basic linguistic concepts and cultural values.
Date: July 22, 2022-October 7, 2022
Every Friday
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM Beijing / 11:00 - 12:00 AM Ghana/
1:00 - 2:00 PM Amsterdam / 7:00-8:00 AM New York
Location: Zoom
Language: English with Chinese translation
Each class will incorporate a moment of conversation as an introduction and context, demonstration and practical exploration. Locomotor activities allowing students to investigate and develop technical, expressive, and creative skills.
Week: 1st-4th
Date: 22nd , 29th July; 5th, 12th August
Time: 7:00-8:00 PM Beijing time
Topic:
Introduction to African Traditional Dance
Activity:
Learning Agbadza Dance of the Anlo-Ewe in Ghana
Notes:
Week: 5th-8th
Date: 19th, 26th August; 2nd, 9th September
Time: 7:00-8:00 PM Beijing time
Topic:
Introduction to African Traditional Dance
Activity:
Learning Sosone Dance of Senegal
Notes:
Week: 9th-12th
Date: 16th, 23rd, 30th September; 7th October
Time: 7:00-8:00 PM Beijing time
Topic:
African somatic connection
Activity:
Guiding students through a wholistic realization of African dance, its philosophy and their bodily experience.
Notes:
Students will be guided to make their own personal connection of the African dance engaged with and how that resonates and interprets in their individual bodies.
Rhythmic abilities, strength, flexibility, structural alignment and symmetry, accurate reproduction of movement materials, qualitative expressivity, movement invention and coherence in phrasing movement materials, an understanding of the historical and cultural dimensions of dance, verbal and literary coherence.
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