Mar 28, 2024  
2015 - 2016 CNM Catalog, Volume 48.1 
    
2015 - 2016 CNM Catalog, Volume 48.1 [The CNM Academic Year includes Fall, Spring, Summer Terms]

DANC 1127 - African Dance

3 credit hour(s)
Prerequisite: RDG 0950  or appropriate placement score.

This course is designed to introduce the student to the aesthetics of African dance technique and to develop knowledge and appreciation of its fundamental movements, music, and culture. This class will help enhance efficient use of relaxed, heavy weight, grounding, weight-shifting, release, and movement. Student will acquire facility in a movement language that reaches across linguistic and geographic boundaries. Student will gain perspective of Africa through discussion of how movement and music are used in its culture and how this may be compared to their own.