- African/Diaspora Dance Level I

Catalog description

African/Diaspora Dance I focuses on African-centered forms of dance in one of many possible genres across the African Diaspora (e.g., traditional African forms, dances of the African Diaspora, African American vernacular, Hip-Hop, Contemporary African, etc.). Taught from a cultural perspective, this course emphasizes fundamentals such as fluidity, use of the head, spine, and pelvis, grounded and weighted qualities, isolations, and complex embodied rhythms. Concert attendance, short written critical responses, and weekly written journals are examples of outside work that is required. No previous dance experience is expected.