Movement Practice: Sénémali 2
DAN2421.01
Course Description
Summary
This course is an introduction to Sabar (traditional dance, drum, and ceremony) from Sénégal and Gambia and Traditional West African Mandingo dance and music forms. We will build an improvisation practice that explores the dynamics between the musicians and dancers as well as how movement and live music can be experienced as a singular, integrated entity. We will also examine the movement and embodied practices of the African diaspora, connecting dance lineages of the past, present, and future.
This will be an integrated studio and sociohistorical academic study of specific African dance techniques. We will highlight and acknowledge the significance of stepping, stomping, hand coordination, upper body torsion, and hip mobility.
Learning Outcomes
- - Understand how movement and rhythms can be experienced as a singular, integrated entity.
- Share their critical experiences, connections, and findings of these forms
- Build a dancing ensemble that explores the dynamics between the music and dance.
- Examine traditional embodied movement practices of the African diaspora, connecting lineages of the past, present, and future.
Cross List
- Black Studies
- Dance