West African Dance Fundamentals A/B (Ages 6-9 Years Old)

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In this course, students learn to execute polyrhythmic patterns and practice multiple types of call & response cues performed both verbally and physically. This course explore the use of weight, body isolations, and dancing with the drummer.

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West African Dance explores the fundamentals of West African culture and tradition through music and dance.

The musicality, traditions and various techniques introduced in this course will connect with dance techniques of Africa and its diaspora including, but not limited to, the dances of Mali, Guinea and Senegal, afrobeat, afro house, and more.

In this course, students learn to execute polyrhythmic patterns and practice multiple types of call & response cues performed both verbally and physically. This course explore the use of weight, body isolations, and dancing with the drummer.

  • Brooklyn Branch

    3 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York
  • Teacher's Name
  • Abdoulaye
  • Teacher's Experience
  • Abdoulaye Koita is a performer that specializes in dance and music that is from/stems from the traditions of Africa and its diaspora. He started performing at 14 after being inspired by dance legend Baba Chuck Davis to start an African dance group in his community. The group lead to intensive studying of the cultures, dances, and musical traditions of Africa and its diaspora. After high school, he continued his education at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT) and joined the E. Gwynn Dance Company, where he was a dancer, musician, and costume designer and constructor for three years. After his first year at NCAT, he received an internship in his hometown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), where he worked with the Artistic Director of the DanceAfrica Festival, Abdel Salaam. This internship allowed him to realize his love of choreography and sparked him to transfer to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he earned a B.A. in dance.
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