[Wadabo_updates] African Contemporary Dance STARTS TOMARROW with Pape N'Diaye

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Dear African Dance & Drum Community,

Pape N'Diaye will teach an 8-week
African Contemporary Dance Workshop Series
this summer at the Dance Complex!
Starts TOMARROW TUESDAY, JUNE 26TH, 6:00-7:30PM, $15
Do not miss this rare opportunity to experience his unique contemporary
dance style as
he infuses his smooth African dance moves with modern style & technique
in this amazing summer workshop series! June 26th - August 14th.

What is African Contemporary Dance? "Africa's new contemporary (modern)
dance movement is small but varied and dynamic. It reaches, at this point, a
growing cadre of fellow artists and interested audiences in Africa, Europe,
and North America. Rooted in the National Dance Company movement beginning
in the 1950s and 1960s, international exchanges, and spurred on by internal
and international competitions, Africa's new dance movement developed in the
swiftly changing currents of urbanization and globalization of the late 20th
century. Far from reinforcing (or inventing) a status quo of tradition or
nationhood, contemporary dance grew with increasing diversity and youthful
vigor in a response to internal and external artistic, cultural, and
political influences. The movement has emerged in mostly urban hot spots,
performing for, mostly, urban audiences. Rural audiences are increasingly
exposed to the work through the efforts, for example, of choreographic
centers such as L'Ecole des Sables in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, or through
such enterprising cultural movements as Festival Kaay Fecc which draws huge,
diverse, and enthusiastic audiences in Dakar and beyond through
ever-expanding networks and partnerships. As a form, contemporary African
dance continues to upset and challenge multiple conventions and stereotypes,
reframing rapidly shifting relationships and identities in its wake. Today
the best of this scene unpacks a fresh set of perspectives on the inner and
outer realities that Africans—and the world—face." (Exerpt from
www.movementrevolutionafrica.com. Please visit this site for more
information on contemporary dance in Africa and Movement (R)evolution Africa
film)
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