African & African Diaspora Dance Technique: Foundations, Lineages, and Living Practice

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

This course integrates an emphasis on analysis, interpretation, and creative performance as forms of intellectual inquiry. African and African diasporic dance traditions are studied as intentional cultural products—embodied systems of knowledge shaped by historical, social, spiritual, and aesthetic frameworks. Students analyze and interpret movement vocabularies, rhythmic structures, spatial designs, and performance conventions as expressive texts that carry meaning, memory, and worldview. Through embodied practice, discussion, and reflection, students examine how dance operates as a form of cultural authorship and historical record rather than as a purely physical activity.