Dimensions Dance Theater

Back to the Root Online Class Series

This online class series is an extension of Back to the Root: Healing and Spiritual Power of the Spine and Pelvis in African Rooted Dance.

Classes

August 22
11:00-12:30 pm PDT

Talawa Technique™
w/Thomas Prestø

September 19
11:00-12:30 pm PDT

AGBADZA (Ewe dance; Ghana)
w/Dr. Sylvanus Kwashie Kuwor

October 17
11:00-12:30 pm PDT

HYPHY/ BAY AREA HIP-HOP (African American)
w/ Ebonie Barnett

November 21
11:00-12:30 pm PDT

GEDE/YANVALU/NAGO (Haitian)
w/Colette Eloi, MFA

December 12
11:00-12:30 pm PDT

MUTWASHI (Kongolese)
w/Nano Lenaud Loubayi

January 16
11-1 pm PST

WINING (Trinidad)
w/Sonja Dumas and Shermica “Sonkanista” Farquhar

*Sunday, February 21
11-1:00 pm PST

BOUNCE (New Orleans) w/Satchel Joseph

March 20
11-12:30 pm PST

BAKONGO AND ZÉBOLA (Kongolese) w/Lakiesha Golden

April 10
11-1 pm PST

ZINLI (Benin) w/Theodore

May 1
11-12:30 pm PST

ESKISTA(Ethiopia) w/ Dr. Ras Mikey Courtney

June 12
11-12:30 pm PST

WOLOSODON AND SUNU(Mali) w/ Djenaba Sako

Details

Dancing Cy(i)phers, Elwah Movement, Ebonie Barnett, and Dimensions Dance Theater hope you are all well and are staying safe. As promised, we offer an online series of classes with an embodied experience of the cosmologies, techniques, and dances discussed in the Back to the Root event in July 2020. Workshops/classes will include history, philosophy, discussion, and technique.

The Zoom link will be emailed the day before the class.

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