ALST 342 - Dancing Across Africa and the Diaspora

From ceremonial practice to avant-garde experimentation, dance serves a variety of functions across the African continent and the diaspora. Students will study diverse forms of social and concert dance that have been central to African and African descendent lives through scholarly and embodied approaches. Alongside the study of dance in Africa, retentions and transformations of African dance practices across the diaspora are explored, based on the premise that people of African descent share certain historical and political experiences and relationships to Blackness. Through the study of dance, students will learn how African and Afro-diasporic expressive cultures intersect with broader global phenomena, including colonialism, decolonization, and neocolonialism.

Credits: 1.0
Crosslisted:

THEA 342

Prerequisites: None
Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: None
Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression
Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation and The Process of Writing
Core Component: None

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