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Teranga students pay $18 for single classes. Please visit the Ailey Extension Desk to receive your discount with proof of ID.
Schedule
DANCE CLASS | LECTURE | |
10:00–11:30am | Afro'Dance with Angel Kaba | Caribbean Bodies in Motion: Mas, Carnival, and Diasporic Memory with Ilana "Illy" Warner & Makayla Peterson |
11:30am–1:00pm | Kutiro (Senegal) with Assane Konté | The Classroom as Sanctuary: Sacred Pedagogy and Cultural Identity with Dr. Andrea K. Markus & Imani Naeemah Ife Massicot |
1:00–2:30pm | Guinean Traditional with Moumimatou Camara | Dance as Sanctuary: Healing, Care, and the Body with Hazel M. Avila & Serraya Milland |
2:30–4:00pm | West African / Wongo with Bakary Fall | Dance as Living Archive: Ancestral Knowledge, Decolonial Practice, and Institutional Resistance with Allan Rocero Gitanes, Careitha Davis, and Shawn Short |
4:00–5:30pm | West African / Sabar with Babacar M'Baye | I Am Because We Are: Ubuntu in Practice with Susan Pope, EdD, Dr. Patricia Dye, and Dr. Andrea K. Markus |
DANCE CLASS | LECTURE | |
10:00–11:30am | Kutiro (Senegal) with Ousman Sall | Sanctuary in Motion: Dance, Drum, Community, and Cultural Protection with Persephone DaCosta & Chanon Judson |
11:30am–1:00pm | Haitian Folkloric Dance with Linda Franciose | Holding Space: Dance, Memory, and Cultural Care in Matriarch with Dominique M. Fontenot |
1:00–2:30pm | Traditional Senegalese Dance with Marie Basse-Wiles & Mariama Basse | NY Style Mambo: Storytelling, Culture, and Experiential Pedagogy with Katherine Jiménez |
2:30–4:00pm | West African Dance with Maguette Camara | Ah Going Home: Carriacou Big Drum, Memory, and Return with Shaahida Samuel |
4:00–5:30pm | Guinean Traditional with Ismael Kouyate | Hip-Hop, Groove, and Community Survival with Quilan “Cue” Arnold & Joe Longomo |
| 5:30–7:00pm | Sabar (Senegal) with Bakary Fall | Staying Dry: Collective Movement, Community, and Survival in the Bronx with Stephen Hill |
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