This course was last updated on 4/2016.
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✓ Make a connection with the Jola history to the Ekonkon dance movements.
✓ Sing the lyrics of the Ekonkon song with the melody.
✓ Gain experience in how to execute Ekonkon movements.
✓ Know the names of the Kutiro drums that accompany the Ekonkon dance.
✓ Recognize the Kutiro rhythm and “breaks”.
✓ Perform up to 8 Ekonkon dance movements with the Kutiro Drum rhythm.
✓ Build stamina and endurance.
✓ Participate in a West African dance class dancing Ekonkon with confidence.
• Students should be mobile and flexible, ability to move freely.
• Students should have an eagerness to learn.
• Students should posses a sense of rhythm and timing.
• Students should have the ability to keep the torso titled slightly forward and the knees slightly bent.
• This course is for anyone who wants to learn West African dance.
• This course is for anyone who wants to immerse themselves in Senegalese culture and dance.
• This course is for anyone who wants to learn Ekonkon dance movements.
• Ekonkon is a very approachable dance. It is for all ages, body types and sizes, and requires no previous dance experience.
• This course is a great way to build stamina, energize and burn calories having fun.
• This course will benefit all dancers and dance enthusiast.
The course costs $16.99. And currently there is a 66% discount on the original price of the course, which was $49.99. So you save $33 if you enroll the course now.
YES, West African Dance I has a 30-day money back guarantee. The 30-day refund policy is designed to allow students to study without risk.
Bakara Johnson has created 1 courses that got 35 reviews which are generally positive. Bakara Johnson has taught 232 students and received a 4.5 average review out of 35 reviews. Depending on the information available, we think that Bakara Johnson is an instructor that you can trust.
Entrepreneur, Writer, Editor, Dancer, Vocalist, Photographer, Instructor
Raised and educated in both the Baltimore/DC Metropolitan Area and the San Francisco Bay Area, Bakara Johnson became a student of dance after participating in a modern dance class in high school. She later received aggressive training in Haitian dance and Dunham Technique with Lynn Wethers-Coles and Blanche Brown, Congolese dance with Malonga Casquelourd, and the traditional dances of Guinea, Ghana and Mali, but it was in the traditional dances of Senegalese West African that she found special personal and artistic resonance.
As a performing member of Harambee Dance Ensemble, Ballet Saungamar and CEEDO West African Drum and Dance Company, she worked to articulate movements through her dance technique, choreographed pieces and her costume designs. She became fascinated with West African dance as a lexicon of movement around the world, and the interface between preservation and dissemination, which makes West African dance an interregnal part of her life.
Aside from her professional dance career, Bakara works as a Staff Coordinator and Editor. She holds an A.A.S. in Business Technology, a B.A. in English and a MPS in Publishing, and devotes her editing career to working with writers in a way that helps to facilitate better communication between readers and writers.