Dances of the African Diaspora I (160-0-1)

Instructors

Erin L Kilmurray

Meeting Info

Wirtz Center Ballroom: Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM

Overview of class

Dance 160 Dances of the African Diaspora - Intro to Jazz/Heels I is a comprehensive dive into Jazz/Heels dance and focuses on foundational technical training rooted in Africanist aesthetics: rhythmic bodily isolations, musicality, and groundedness. From this place, students can expect a mix of dance styles, intentions, and movement vocabularies from which ‘heels dance' pulls from including jazz, hip-hop, showgirl, American burlesque, body language, and contemporary dance forms.

Class structure includes warm-up, practice exercises, and floorwork to support advanced phrases based on the work Erin Kilmurray does as artistic director and choreographer of The Fly Honeys.