Section Info: DANCE-134-01

Course Title: Dance and Drumming

Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025

Term: Spring Semester 2025

Description: This course bridges two critical components in dance training: movement and rhythm. The course takes inspiration from traditions that conceive drumming and dancing as inseparable companions in the dance making process. In these traditions, such as many West African societies, the well-trained performer, no matter where they lean in their mode of expression, is expected to have a depth of knowledge in both areas. Throughout the semester, students will be introduced to different dance-drumming traditions. For each dance piece, students will learn the movements as well all the supporting drum parts and an introduction to the fundamentals of the lead drum.

Distribution(s): PE - Physical Education

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:2.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Michael Ofori		mofori@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025	Performance	Monday and Wednesday	10:00AM - 11:15AM	KEND - Kendall Hall/Sports Complex	STTH	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
None

Comments

Additional Comments

Repeatable for credit.

Course Tags
1-2CR0001	1-2CR: One and two credit undergraduate courses

Cross-listed Sections

None

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted	Capacity: 18	Enrollment: 18	Available: 0	Waitlist: 2

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.